Munir playing for Barcelona in 2014
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Munir El Haddadi Mohamed | ||
Date of birth | 1 September 1995 | ||
Place of birth | El Escorial, Spain | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Valencia (on loan from Barcelona) |
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Number | 9 | ||
Youth career | |||
2007–2009 | Galapagar | ||
2009–2010 | Santa Ana | ||
2010–2011 | Atlético Madrid | ||
2010–2011 | → Rayo Majadahonda (loan) | ||
2011–2014 | Barcelona | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2015 | Barcelona B | 28 | (8) |
2014– | Barcelona | 26 | (4) |
2016– | → Valencia (loan) | 15 | (3) |
National team‡ | |||
2014 | Spain U19 | 4 | (6) |
2014– | Spain U21 | 16 | (10) |
2014– | Spain | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 January 2017. |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 January 2017.
Munir El Haddadi Mohamed (Arabic: منير الحدادي محمد; born 1 September 1995), known simply as Munir, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Valencia CF on loan from FC Barcelona.
He began his career in the youth ranks of Atlético Madrid before transferring to Barcelona in 2011, where he won the 2013–14 UEFA Youth League. He made his debut for the B-team in March 2014, and scored in his first match for the senior team in August of that year, at the start of a season in which they won the treble. The following year he was one of five top scorers in the Copa del Rey, which his team won.
Munir earned his first cap for the Spanish national team against Macedonia on 8 September 2014.
Munir was born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial,Madrid, and grew up in nearby Galapagar, on a street likened to a "Little Morocco" by El Mundo. His Moroccan father, Mohamed El Haddadi Arbrqui, came to Spain in a fishing boat at the age of 18 and is now a chef. His mother, Zaida, hails from the Spanish autonomous city of Melilla on the north coast of Africa, she is a former kitchen hand who now looks after Munir's three siblings. Up to the age of 14, Munir was a fan of Real Madrid.