Record 20th Champions League debate for Casillas
Iker Casillas’s coming for Porto opposite Schalke on Tuesday means he has now participated in a record 20 UEFA Champions League campaigns.
Now 37, Casillas has done some-more UEFA bar foe appearances than any other player, yet Cristiano Ronaldo is shutting in on that sold record. However, a Portuguese brazen will need to play during slightest 5 some-more seasons to compare Casillas’s stream symbol of 20 campaigns.
Players who have featured in a many UEFA Champions League seasons*
20 Iker Casillas (Real Madrid, Porto – 1999/2000–2018/19)
19 Ryan Giggs (Man. United – 1994/95–2013/14, incompatible 1995/96 campaign)
17 Paul Scholes (Man. United – 1998/99–2012/13, incompatible 2011/12 campaign)
16 Xavi Hernández (Barcelona – 1998/99–2014/15, incompatible 2003/04 campaign)
16 Arjen Robben (PSV, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern – 2002/03–2017/18)
15 Zlatan Ibrahimović (Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona, AC Milan, Paris, Man. United – 2002/03–2017/18, incompatible 2016/17 campaign)
15 Raúl González (Real Madrid, Schalke – 1995/96–2010/11)
15 Gary Neville (Man. United – 1994/95–2009/10, incompatible 1995/96 campaign)
15 Cristiano Ronaldo (Man. United, Real Madrid – 2003/04–2017/18)
15 Ashley Cole (Arsenal, Chelsea, Roma – 2000/01–2014/15)
15 Andrés Iniesta (Barcelona – 2002/03–2017/18, incompatible 2003/04)
15: Lionel Messi (Barcelona – 2004/05–2018/19)
*group theatre to final. Last updated 18/09/18; Robben and Ronaldo could both supplement to their tallies on Wednesday
What creates Iker Casillas special?
“What a keeper! It is one thing to see him on radio and another to have him in front of you. You already know he is unequivocally good, though we never had a event to work with him until we lerned together [ahead of a 2010 FIFA World Cup], and afterwards we unequivocally see what he can do as a footballer.”
VÃctor Valdés, former Barcelona goalkeeper
“Iker has shown that he’s a 10 in all he does – in goal, as a captain, in his poise … He’s a phenomenon.”
Luis Aragonés, former Spain coach
“Iker was one of my idols. We’ve come adult opposite any other a lot and he’s a actor with such good reflexes.”
Thibaut Courtois, Chelsea and Belgium goalkeeper
“He has won all there is to win and has been on a same good turn for so many years now, that is presumably a hardest thing of all for a goalkeeper.“
Gianluigi Buffon, Paris goalkeeper, vocalization in 2012
“A good goalkeeper [whom] I’ve always suspicion rarely of and noticed with good respect. [He is] never concerned in anything disastrous and [has] always acted professionally during dual good clubs, Real Madrid and Porto.”
Francesco Toldo, former Inter Milan and Italy goalkeeper
“We know any other well. He’s a good male and a good person. Iker is an icon and a relic of his club.”
Francesco Totti, former Roma forward
“He has always been a joker – joyful, frank and a unequivocally rival person. He cheers we adult and has copiousness of energy, though it’s always respectful. He’s someone who participates, who contributes to a group. His care isn’t forced, it’s natural.”
Xavi Hernández, former Barcelona midfielder and Spain team-mate
“Sometimes he is a bit of a pain in a neck, since we win a diversion and we are all happy and he comes in and says that we still haven’t won anything and we still have a prolonged highway ahead. Iker found his assent during Porto and he is super-happy here.”
Óliver Torres, Porto midfielder
What we competence not know
• When he was “seven or eight”, a singular Casillas trip cost his family a fortune: his father filled in his football pools banking and got all 14 formula right, though mislaid out on a seven-figure price since his son forgot to palm a form in. “It wasn’t a large deal, usually a bit stupid; it happens,” Casillas recalled.
• On a books during Real Madrid from age nine, a 16-year-old Casillas initial schooled he had been named in a patrol for a UEFA Champions League diversion when his propagandize headmaster called him out of a doctrine to tell him.
• Casillas is a youngest goalkeeper to win a UEFA Champions League, reckoning in Real Madrid’s 3-0 better of Valencia in 2000 usually 4 days after his 19th birthday.
• He was nicknamed ‘The Saint’ after saving dual penalties in a 2002 World Cup shoot-out opposite Republic of Ireland; he was usually initial choice for Spain since Santiago Cañizares missed a contest after being harmed by a shard of potion from a damaged aftershave bottle.
• He is unapproachable of his practical roots in a Madrid suburbs; when Real Madrid were famous for luminary players, a screw said: “I’m no ‘Galáctico’, I’m from Mostoles.”
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