Nacho's 20 years at Real Madrid | OneFootball

Nacho has extended his contract and will remain at his boyhood club, Real Madrid, where he checked in 20 years ago. In 2001, at the age of 11, he joined the Alevín A side. He then went on to turn out for the infantil, cadete and juvenil sides, before representing Real Madrid C and Castilla, which was the final step before he accomplished every academy player's dream: making his debut for the Real Madrid first team and establishing himself as a member of the squad. He made his bow in the LaLiga trip to Valencia in April 2011, before achieving the second part of the dream in the 2012/13 campaign.

Since then, Nacho has enjoyed a richly successful career that has yielded no fewer than 17 pieces of silverware: four Champions League and Club World Cup crowns apiece, three UEFA Super Cups, two LaLiga titles, a Copa del Rey and a trio of Spanish Super Cups.

Statistics Nacho is currently the longest-serving member of the first-team squad. He has racked up 233 appearances for Real Madrid across LaLiga (158), the Champions League (41), the Copa del Rey (30), the MClub World Cup (three) and the Spanish Super Cup (1) and plundered 12 goals. Last term, which was his 20th season at the club, saw him feature 33 times and find the net once.