.jpg) Valverde in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1998[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2008 | Estudiantes de la Unión | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2015 | Peñarol | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Peñarol | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Real Madrid B | 30 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Real Madrid | 187 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Deportivo La Coruña (loan) | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Uruguay U15 | 25 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Uruguay U17 | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Uruguay U18 | 7 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Uruguay U20 | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Uruguay | 65 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:50, 16 October 2024 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko βalˈβeɾðe];[note 1] born 22 July 1998) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Uruguay national team. Regarded as one of the best midfielders in the world, he is known for his pace, work rate, stamina and shooting ability.[4][5][6] Mainly a central-midfielder, he is also able to play as a defensive-midfielder, a right-winger and occasionally a right-back.[7][8]
Valverde began his professional career with Peñarol in 2015, winning the Uruguayan Primera División in his first season. In 2016, he joined Real Madrid, initially playing for the club's reserve team. He made his first-team debut in 2017 and has since gone on to make over 250 appearances for the club, winning three La Liga titles, two FIFA Club World Cups, two UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Super Cups, and the Copa del Rey.
Valverde made his international debut for Uruguay in 2017, and has since represented his country at three Copa América tournaments (2019, 2021, 2024) and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
- ^ "Acta del Partido celebrado el 19 de mayo de 2019, en Madrid" [Minutes of the Match held on 19 May 2019, in Madrid] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™: List of Players: Uruguay" (PDF). FIFA. 18 December 2022. p. 30. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
- ^ "Valverde". Real Madrid CF. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ Jeevathayalan, Vijievan (12 September 2023). "Ranking the world's 20 best midfielders". GiveMeSport. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Best midfielders in the world 2024". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Top 30 best midfielders in the world – Global ranking revealed". Sports Brief. 23 October 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Fede Valverde's transformation into one of the best midfielders in the world". MARCA. 17 October 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Federico Valverde: The tale of the boy who didn't want to run". FIFA.com. 29 June 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
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