Real Madrid announced the departure of official representative Nacho Fernandez

MADRID — Real Madrid officially announced the departure of defender Nacho Fernandez on Tuesday.captain of the first team that lifted fifteenth place a few days ago at Wembley Stadium and joined the club when he was ten years old.

The defender joined Real Madrid as a junior in 2001, aged 10, and became part of the youth team. He went through stages until he made his first team debut under Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho in April 2011.as owner in defeat at Mestalla against Valencia on the penultimate day of the League (3-6).

Since then, he has spent 12 seasons in the first team and built a career that culminated in 2024 when he won three captain’s titles – the Spanish Super Cup, the League and the UEFA Champions League – thus achieving with the Croatian Luka Modricplayer with the most trophies in Real Madrid history -26-: 6 UEFA Champions League5 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 4 leagues, 2 Spanish Cups and 5 Spanish Super Cups in 364 games.

In addition, as part of the Spanish national team, he was proclaimed European Under-21 champion and Nations League champion. He is currently playing at the Euro 2024 Championship in Germany..

“All Real Madrid fans feel great pride in one of the most legendary young players in our history,” Real Madrid wrote on its website, along with a few words of gratitude from club president Florentino Perez.

“Since Nacho arrived in our youth team as a child, he has always been an example of improvement for everyone and has received the love, recognition and admiration of all Real Madrid fans.” “Real Madrid has been and will always be his home,” he assured.

Additionally, the white team “wishes him and his entire family the best of luck in this new phase of his life” in which intends to play in Saudi Arabia for the Al-Qadisiyah football club, which recently left the Arab League.approved by his coach, the Spaniard José Miguel Gonzalez “Michel”.

Nacho Fernandez, who announced his farewell to Real Madrid five days after the expiration of his current contract, which he did not renew despite being in the starting XI of the white team in a season in which knee injuries suffered by Eder Militao and David Alaba, made him play 45 games and made his first start in the UEFA Champions League final, finishing in fifteenth place.

The farewell to Real takes place in the midst of a dispute over the European Cup, so his farewell act for the white team will have to wait until its conclusion.