Casillas with Porto in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Iker Casillas Fernández | ||
Date of birth | 20 May 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Móstoles, Spain | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Porto | ||
Number | 1 | ||
Youth career | |||
1990–1998 | Real Madrid | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1998–1999 | Real Madrid C | 26 | (0) |
1999 | Real Madrid B | 4 | (0) |
1999–2015 | Real Madrid | 510 | (0) |
2015– | Porto | 57 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
1996 | Spain U15 | 1 | (0) |
1996–1998 | Spain U16 | 19 | (0) |
1997–1999 | Spain U17 | 10 | (0) |
1999 | Spain U18 | 4 | (0) |
1999 | Spain U20 | 2 | (0) |
1999–2000 | Spain U21 | 5 | (0) |
2000– | Spain | 167 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:11, 12 March 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:21, 1 June 2016 (UTC) |
Iker Casillas Fernández (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈiker kaˈsiʎas ferˈnandeθ]; born 20 May 1981) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Porto and the Spain national team as a goalkeeper.
Casillas began his youth career with Real Madrid in 1990. After gaining promotion to the senior team in 1999, he remained with the club for 16 seasons, later serving as the club's captain. During his highly successful time at the Madrid club, he won five La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey titles, four Supercopa de España titles, three UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Super Cups, two Intercontinental Cups, and the FIFA Club World Cup. With 725 appearances for the club, Casillas is Madrid's second most capped player of all-time after Raúl.
Casillas debuted for the Spain national team in June 2000 at the age of 19. To date, he has made a national record 167 appearances, making him the joint sixth-most capped male footballer in history, and the joint most capped European player of all time. He became the nation's first-choice goalkeeper at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and went on to play at UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup. In 2008, he was made captain of the Spanish team, leading them to their first European Championship in 44 years by winning Euro 2008. Under Casillas's captaincy, Spain went on to win its first ever World Cup in 2010 and retain the European Championship in 2012. At the 2014 World Cup, Casillas and teammate Xavi joined Andoni Zubizarreta and Fernando Hierro in representing Spain at four World Cups.