Willy Caballero
Caballero warming up for Manchester City in 2014
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| Full name | Wilfredo Daniel Caballero Lazcano | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 28 September 1981 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Santa Elena, Argentina | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Manchester City | |||||||||||
| Number | 13 | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Boca Juniors | 15 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004–2011 | Elche | 186 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006 | → Arsenal Sarandí (loan) | 13 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Málaga | 117 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2014– | Manchester City | 12 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Argentina U21 | 2 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:32, 13 February 2017 (UTC). |
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Wilfredo Daniel "Willy" Caballero Lazcano (born 28 September 1981) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester City.
He spent most of his career in Spain, representing Elche and Málaga and competing in La Liga with the latter club. In the summer of 2014, he signed for Manchester City.
Born in Santa Elena, Entre Ríos, Caballero started his playing career with Boca Juniors in 2001, where he won three major titles in 2003. On 14 December of that year he witnessed – from the bench – his team beat A.C. Milan 3–1 on penalties, in the 2003 Intercontinental Cup.
Caballero joined Elche CF of Spain in 2004, and had a brief loan spell back in his country with Arsenal de Sarandí in 2006. With the former, after a rough first season, he went on to become the undisputed starter, appearing in nearly 200 Segunda División games.
On 10 February 2011, Caballero was transferred to Málaga CF in La Liga for €900,000 and two and a half years, as an emergency transfer – after the 31 January transfer deadline – due to a serious knee injury to Sergio Asenjo (the club's previous starter, Rubén, was also unavailable due to physical problems); he made his league debut on 20 February, starting in a 1–1 draw at Villarreal CF, and played all the matches until the end of the campaign, with the Andalusians finally escaping relegation.
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