Dani Carvajal to leave Real Madrid after 13 years | OneFootball

The club announced that the captain and right-back will not renew his contract, which expires at the end of the current season, and will say goodbye to the Santiago Bernabéu this Saturday in the final La Liga match. He leaves with 27 titles, 451 appearances, and six Champions League trophies, becoming one of the most decorated players in the club’s history.

Dani Carvajal brings to a close a chapter that will be etched in Real Madrid’s history. The club announced this Friday that the captain and right-back will not renew his contract, which expires at the end of the current season, and that this Saturday he will be honored at the Santiago Bernabéu during the final La Liga match as a farewell. The Spaniard departs with 27 titles, 451 appearances, and six Champions League trophies to his name.

“Real Madrid wants to express its gratitude and all its affection for one of the greatest legends of our club and of world football,” the institution said in its official statement.

Since his official debut on August 18, 2013, Carvajal built a career that places him among the most decorated players in football history. His six Champions League titles put him on an exclusive list of just five footballers to reach that mark: Francisco Gento, the first to achieve it with Real Madrid; Luka Modrić and Nacho Fernández, also Madrid players; and Toni Kroos, who won one with Bayern and five with Madrid.

The full honors list of the 33-year-old Madrid-born full-back includes six Club World Cups, five UEFA Super Cups, four La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey trophies, and four Spanish Super Cups. In total, 27 titles that make him one of the most successful players in recent world football history.

His 450 official appearances are broken down into 302 league matches, 96 Champions League matches, 26 Copa del Rey matches, nine Club World Cup matches, six UEFA Super Cup matches, and 11 Spanish Super Cup matches. He recorded 307 wins and scored 14 goals, including one of the most important in the club’s recent history: the goal in the final of their 15th Champions League title, played in London, where he was also named man of the match. Atlético de Madrid was the opponent he faced most often, with 34 matches.

The Santiago Bernabéu will pay tribute to him this Saturday before or during the final league match of the season. A farewell the club has prepared with the affection deserved by someone who devoted more than a decade of his career to the Madrid cause. Carvajal will leave on a free transfer, with his next destination still unknown, thus bringing to an end one of the most glorious spells any right-back has produced in football history.

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