Nacho Fernández stops being a Real Madrid player

Real Madrid announced in a statement that team captain Nacho Fernández has decided to end his career as a player with the white team. The club thanked the man they already consider one of the team’s legends.

Nacho arrived at Real Madrid in 2001, when he was only 10 years old, and has played in all categories of our youth team until becoming a first team player in 2012. Since then, he has defended our shirt for 12 seasons in one of the most successful in the history of Real Madrid. In all this time he has played 364 games and has won 26 titles: 6 European Cups, 5 Club World Cups, 4 European Super Cups, 4 Leagues, 2 Copas del Rey and 5 Spanish Super Cups.

In addition, with the Spanish team he became European under-21 champion and champion of the Nations League, and is currently playing in the Euro 2024 Championship in Germany.

Nacho ends his career at Real Madrid as the captain who lifted the Fifteenth at Wembley, as one of the five players who have won 6 European Cups in the entire history of football and with the greatest number of titles in the history of our club.

All Real Madrid fans feel the utmost pride in one of the most legendary youth players in our history.

The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, states that “Since he arrived at our youth academy as a child, Nacho has always been an example of improvement for everyone and has received the love, recognition and admiration of all Real Madrid fans. Real Madrid is and will always be his home.”

Real Madrid wishes him and his entire family the best of luck in this new stage of his life.