.jpg) Carrasco playing for Belgium at the 2018 FIFA World Cup | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yannick Ferreira Carrasco[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 4 September 1993[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Vilvoorde, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left midfielder, left winger, left wing-back, left-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Al-Shabab | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Stade Everois | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2005 | Diegem Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2010 | Genk | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Monaco B | 30 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Monaco | 81 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2018 | Atlético Madrid | 81 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Dalian Yifang | 50 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | → Atlético Madrid (loan) | 15 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2023 | Atlético Madrid | 102 | (19) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Al-Shabab | 29 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Belgium U15 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Belgium U17 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Belgium U18 | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Belgium U19 | 12 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Belgium U21 | 11 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015– | Belgium | 78 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 October 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 July 2024 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (born 4 September 1993) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab and the Belgium national team. A versatile player, Carrasco can be deployed as a left midfielder, left wing-back, left winger or left-back.
Carrasco began his career with Monaco, where he scored 20 goals in 105 professional games, winning Ligue 2 in his first season and finishing runner-up in Ligue 1 in the second. In 2015, he joined La Liga side Atlético Madrid for a reported €20 million, scoring the equaliser as Atlético lost the 2016 UEFA Champions League final. After a two-year spell with Dalian Professional in the Chinese Super League, Carrasco returned to Atlético in 2020, winning a La Liga title, before departing again for Al-Shabab in 2023.
Carrasco made his international debut for Belgium in April 2015. He played at the UEFA European Championship in 2016, 2020 and 2024, and was part of their squad that came third at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
- ^ "Squad List: FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Belgium (BEL)" (PDF). FIFA. 18 December 2022. p. 3. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™: List of Players: Belgium" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "Yannick Carrasco". Saudi Pro League. Retrieved 7 December 2023.