Iker
Casillas Fernández born 20 May
1981 is a Spanish football goalkeeper who
plays for the Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, being the captain of both. In 2008 he
led the Spanish national team to their firstEuropean Championship in
44 years, and in 2010 to win the World Cup, Spain's
first ever, being also named the tournament's best goalkeeper.
Casillas has
been nominated for the European Footballer of the Year award twice, ranking fourth overall in
2008 and again receiving more votes than any other goalkeeper in 2009.[2] At the end of 2009 he was voted into
the UEFA Team of the Year for the third consecutive time. As of
2011 Casillas is one of a very select group of players who have won all major
club and national championship titles. In 2010, he was awarded with the Sports
Prince of Asturias Award. On 19 October 2010, Casillas became the most cappedgoalkeeper of all time in the UEFA Champions League and in November 2011, he became the
most capped player of all time for the Spanish national team.
Early life
Casillas was born on 20 May 1981 in Móstoles, Community of
Madrid to José Luis Casillas, a civil servant in the Ministry
of Education, and María del Carmen Fernández González, a
hairdresser. Both his parents had emigrated from their
home of Navalacruz, Ávila.
When Iker was a child, he lived for some years in the Basque Country, but he
has always considered Madrid to be his hometown.Casillas has a brother, seven
years younger, named Unai, who currently plays as a central midfielder for CD Móstoles.
As a young child, one weekend Casillas forgot
to post his father’s football predictions on th[e weekend his father had
correctly predicted all 14 results. The family lost out on an estimated €1m.
Real Madrid
Casillas had started in the junior squad of
Real Madrid's youth system during the 1990–91 season. On 27 November 1997 at
age 16 he was first called up to the first team to face Rosenborg in Champions
League, but it wasn't until the 1998–99 season that he debuted in
the senior side, substituting Bodo Illgner. By the next season, he
relegated Illgner to the bench and became first-choice. In 2000, he became the
youngest ever goalkeeper to play in a Champions League final when Real Madrid
defeated Valencia 3–0, just four days after
his nineteenth birthday.
Casillas lost his place in the side to backup César Sánchez after a patch of bad form
during the 2001–02 campaign, but redeemed himself when Sánchez suffered an
injury in the last minutes of 2002
Champions League final match. Casillas came on and
pulled off several brilliant saves to deny a rampant Bayer Leverkusen the Champions League crown.
Real Madrid won 2–1 and Casillas has maintained the number 1 shirt ever since.
The 2007–08 season was a fruitful season for
Casillas as he helped Real Madrid reclaim their 31st La Liga title and conceded only 32
goals in 36 matches to claim the Zamora Trophy. On 14 February 2008, he and
then club captain Raúl González were awarded a contract for
life. Casillas signed a contract extension that will keep him at the club until
2017, with an automatic extension if he plays 30 competitive matches during the
final season of the contract and a buy-out clause of £113 million.[9][10] His performances earned him
a spot in the UEFA
Team of the Year for the second time.
In February 2009, Casillas equalled Paco Buyo's record of 454 matches played
(for a goalkeeper) and has since surpassed it to become Real Madrid's
most-capped goalkeeper of all time at only twenty-seven years old. During the
2009 summer transfer window, some Spanish media reported that Manchester City had launched a record £129
million bid for the goalkeeper. However the club denied the allegations saying
that no such offer had been made. Manchester United had been rumoured to have
enquired about him, but no price was announced. He had been linked with other Premier League clubs before but Casillas
himself stated that he "had no intention of leaving" his boyhood
club.
During the 2009–10 season on 4 October in a
game against Sevilla, Casillas made an extraordinary
save; he ran from one side of his goal to the other and denied Diego Perotti in a one-on-one close range
encounter. After the match, he received praise from fellow Spanish goalkeepers
and England goalkeeper Gordon Banks, who stated "Casillas'
reflexes are incredible. If he continues to play this well he will become one
of the best goalkeepers in the history of the game. Europa Press reported that Casillas was
the 2nd most popular Spanish sportsman on the internet throughout 2010. The
study performed by company Vipnet360 examined the web presence on platforms
like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
During the 2011–12 season, Casillas won IFFHS
Best Goalkeeper award, making him the only and first goalkeeper to win it 4
times.
Casillas played his 600th match for Real
Madrid on January 22, 2012 in a 4–1 win against Athletic Bilbao.
On 2nd May 2012, Casillas clinched his 5th La
Liga title and his 1st as a Captain of Real Madrid, with 3-0 win at Bilbao.
International career
Casillas debuted for the national team in the
U–17 level. At age 16, he was the youngest player in the Spanish squad that
placed third at the 1997
FIFA U-17 World Championship in Egypt. He was later made
captain of the U-17's. Two years later, he went on to win theFIFA World Youth Championship and the UEFA-CAF
Meridian Cup that same year. Initially second-choice, he
soon worked his way up to first-choice and eventually earned his first senior
cap following some brilliant performances at club level.
Casillas is currently the most capped player
in the history of the Spanish national team. Following his full international
debut at the senior level on 3 June 2000 against Sweden(at
19 years and 14 days), Casillas was an unused substitute at Euro 2000. He was part of the roster for
the 2002 World Cup,
initially as the understudy to Santiago
Cañizares. Coincidentally, Casillas became the first-choice
goalkeeper when Cañizares had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury
from a freak accident. At 21, he was one of the youngest first-choice
goalkeepers in the tournament. He played an instrumental role in Spanish
progression when he saved two penalties in the shoot-out during the round of 16
match against the Republic of Ireland, earning him the nickname "The
Saint". One of his saves during the quarterfinals versus South Korea
during the2002 FIFA World
Cup was rated by FIFA as one of the top 10 saves
of all time.
Casillas played in all eight Group six
fixtures during Euro 2004 qualifying, conceding just
four goals. He kept a clean sheet in the second leg victory of the playoff
against Norway which ended 3–0 in Oslo,
and started all of Spain's Euro 2004 matches. He was the first choice for the 2006 FIFA World
Cup, captaining the team twice, but could not prevent La Roja from losing 3–1 to a
Zidane-inspired France in the Round of 16.
With the exclusion of his Real Madrid teammate Raúl from the squad for Euro 2008, Casillas was given the
captain's armband. He started the first two Group
D games against Russia and Sweden before being
rested in place of second-choice goalkeeper Pepe Reinafor
Spain's group stage elimination of Greece.
Casillas saved two penalties from Antonio Di Natale and Daniele De Rossi as Spain eliminated Italy in the quarterfinals with a
4–2 shootout win following a goalless draw on 22 June. Spain later went on to
win the competition with a 1–0 win over Germany in the final on 29 June; Casillas kept
clean sheets for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final matches, with Sweden's
first round goal by Zlatan
Ibrahimović being the last one scored against him. On 29
June 2008 Casillas became the first goalkeeper-captain to lift the UEFA
European Championship trophy when Spain beat
Germany 1–0 in the final.
In October 2008, Casillas and deputy in goal Pepe Reina broke the national record
for the longest time spent without conceding a goal. The pair went unbeaten for
710 minutes, longer than Spain's longest-serving goalkeeper Andoni
Zubizarreta and Paco Buyo. Wesley Sonck of Belgium ended their
goalless streak when he scored against them a 2010 World Cup qualifying match.
Casillas was the highest ranked goalkeeper
(4th place) in the 2008 Ballon d'Or behindCristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and national teammate Fernando Torres. Also in 2008 Casillas was
named the world's best goalkeeper by the IFFHS. He also came in third place in the best goalkeepers of
all time ranking; beating Oliver Kahn.
On 5 September 2009, after a 5–0 win over
Belgium in a qualifying match for the World Cup, Casillas equalled Andoni
Zubizarreta's national record of 56 clean sheets, and during the Spanish team's
next match against Estonia on 9 September 2009, he surpassed Zubizarreta as the record holder for
the most Spanish international clean sheets (this being achieved in Casillas'
98th appearance for the national team, while Zubizarreta made 126 before his
retirement). Two months later, Casillas made his 100th appearance for the
Spanish squad in the friendly win over Argentina,
making him only the third player in history of Spanish football to ever reach
this far internationally.
On 11 July 2010, he captained Spain to their
first ever World Cup title with a 1–0 win against the Netherlands. In doing so he became the third ever
goalkeeper to captain a World Cup winning side (along with Gianpiero Combi in 1934 and Dino Zoff in 1982).
He was voted the tournament's best goalkeeper and awarded the Golden Glove. In the course of the finals
in South Africa he kept five clean sheets, conceded two goals, and saved a
penalty in the quarter final against Paraguay.
In the final,
he made two crucial stops from Netherlands'Arjen Robben with the score at 0–0 after
the Dutchman had passed all the defenders.
On 15 November 2011, Casillas became Spain's
most capped player, breaking Andoni
Zubizarreta's record after starting for Spain in their 2–2 draw
against Costa Rica.
On 29 February 2012, in Spain's 5–0 win over
Venezuela, Casillas equalled Edwin van der Sar's record of 72
international clean sheets.
Sponsorship
In January 2012, Casillas agreed a
sponsorship deal with adidas to wear their Response
goalkeeping gloves and Predator football boots. The move to adidas ended a
long running association for Casillas with Reebok. In February 2005, Casillas was the football face of
Reebok's I Am What I Am global integrated advertising campaign that linked all
the brand's marketing efforts under one umbrella.
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