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====Social Causes====
====Social Causes====
'''Casillas & Nadal Against Malaria'''- Casillas and his Tennis Champion friend, [[Rafael Nadal]] have come together to work againts Malaria. Him and Nadal have put together matches in the 'Friends of Nadal Vs Friends of Iker' that are held each year to raise funds to help out fight against Malaria. In these matches, Casillas' and friends compete in series of competitions against Nadal and friends.

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Image:http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1031/000d8d32sb0.jpg|Iker Casillas and Rafael Nadal during a match against Malaria.
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'''Plan'''- Just days after winning the Euro 2008, Casillas visited a remote Peruvian community to help highlight Plan International's work. They help Children who need education to prepare for their future. <ref>http://www.plan-international.org/news/iker</ref>
'''Plan'''- Just days after winning the Euro 2008, Casillas visited a remote Peruvian community to help highlight Plan International's work. They help Children who need education to prepare for their future. <ref>http://www.plan-international.org/news/iker</ref>



==References==
==References==

Revision as of 18:54, 3 February 2009

Iker Casillas
Personal information
Full name Iker Casillas Fernández
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Real Madrid
Number 1
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2008
Casillas (left) celebrating with Spain after winning Euro 2008.

Iker Casillas Fernández Spanish pronunciation: [ˈiker kaˈsiʎas]; (born 20 May 1981 in Móstoles, Madrid) is a Spanish football goalkeeper who plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid C.F. and the Spanish national team. He is currently first-choice goalkeeper for both club and country. As captain of the national side, he led a young Spanish team to their first European Championship in 44 years. He is known to many as the one of the worlds best goalkeepers, and has recently been ranked 8th, in the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year, being ranked higher than any other goalkeeper.[1]

Real Madrid

Casillas is a product of Real Madrid's youth system, and started in the junior squad during the 1990–91 season, but it wasn't until 1998–99 that he debuted in the senior side, replacing Bodo Illgner, and was in Real's starting lineup the next season. In 2000, he became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to ever play in a Champions League final when Real Madrid defeated Valencia C.F. 3-0 just four days after his nineteenth birthday.

Casillas lost his spot to backup César Sánchez after a patch of bad form during the 2001–02 campaign, but Sanchez suffered an injury in the last minutes of Madrid's 2-1 2002 Champions League final victory over Bayer Leverkusen and was replaced by Casillas, who earned back the starting shirt the next season and has maintained it since. In February 2008, he signed a contract extension that will keep him at the club until 2017, with an automatic extension if he plays 30 competitive matches during the final season of the contract and a buy-out clause of £128 million.[2][3]

It was reported that Casillas's agent met with representatives from Manchester City but he flatly rejected it and pledged his loyalty to his hometown club. They had offered the goalkeeper £128 million but he rejected.[4]

National team

Casillas debuted for the national team in the U–17 level. At age 16, he was the youngest player in the Spanish squad that placed third at the 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Egypt. Two years later, he went on to win the FIFA World Youth Championship. He won the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup that same year.

Casillas is currently the second-most capped goalkeeper in the history of the Spanish national team, behind Andoni Zubizarreta, who appeared in 126 matches.[5] Following his full international debut at the senior level against Sweden (at 19 years and 14 days), Casillas was an unused substitute at Euro 2000. He was part of the roster for the 2002 World Cup, initially as the understudy to Santiago Cañizares. Coincidentally, Casillas became the first-choice goalkeeper when Cañizares had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury from a freak accident. At 21, he was one of the youngest first-choice goalkeepers in the tournament. He gained hero status when he saved two penalties in the penalty shoot-out during the round of 16 match against the Republic of Ireland.

Casillas played in all eight Group six fixtures during Euro 2004 qualifying, conceding just four goals. He kept a clean sheet in both legs of the playoff victory against Norway, and started all of Spain's Euro 2004 matches. He was first choice for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, captaining the team twice.

With the exclusion of Real Madrid teammate Raúl from the squad for Euro 2008, Casillas was given the captain's armband. He started the first two Euro 2008 Group D games against Russia and Sweden before being rested in place of second-choice goalkeeper Pepe Reina for Spain's group stage elimination of Greece. Casillas saved two penalties from Antonio Di Natale and Daniele De Rossi as Spain eliminated Italy in the quarterfinals with a 4–2 shootout win following a goalless draw on 22 June. Spain later went on to win the competition with a 1–0 win over Germany in the final on 29 June; Casillas kept clean sheets for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final matches, with Sweden's first round goal by Zlatan Ibrahimović being the last one scored against him. In his 82 appearances for Spain, he has kept 42 clean sheets. On 29 June 2008 Casillas became the first goalkeeper-captain to lift the UEFA European Championship trophy when Spain beat Germany 1–0 in the final.[6]

In October 2008, Casillas and deputy in goal Pepe Reina broke the national record for the longest time spent without conceding a goal. The pair went unbeaten for 710 minutes, longer than the legendary Andoni Zubizarreta and Paco Buyo.[7] Wesley Sonck of Belgium ended their goaless streak when he scored against them a 2010 World Cup qualifying match.

One of his saves during the quarterfinals versus South Korea during the 2002 FIFA World Cup was rated by FIFA as one of the top 10 saves of all time.[8]

Casillas was the highest ranked goalkeeper (4th place) in the 2008 Ballon d'Or behind Ronaldo, Messi and national teammate Fernando Torres.

He was named the world's best goalkeeper in 2008 by the IFFHS.[9] He also came in third place in the best goalkeepers of all time ranking; beating Oliver Kahn.[10]

Statistics

As of 15 December 2008

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All-Time National Team Performance
National
Team 		Year Friendlies World Cup European Championships Total
Pld GA Pld GA Pld GA Pld GA
Spain 2000 3 3 3 2 0 0 6 5
2001 3 2 2 0 0 0 5 2
2002 4 1 5 5 2 0 11 6
2003 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
2004 6 3 3 1 3 2 12 6
2005 1 0 9 4 0 0 10 4
2006 4 3 3 4 3 5 10 12
2007 1 0 0 0 7 3 8 3
2008 2 0 2 0 6 2 10 2
Total 25 12 27 16 21 12 73 40

Honours

Real Madrid

International

Individual

Outside Football

Personal Life

Casillas had been dating the Spanish model, Eva González on an off from 2005 until 2008 when the couple officially ended their relationship.

Social Causes

Casillas & Nadal Against Malaria- Casillas and his Tennis Champion friend, Rafael Nadal have come together to work againts Malaria. Him and Nadal have put together matches in the 'Friends of Nadal Vs Friends of Iker' that are held each year to raise funds to help out fight against Malaria. In these matches, Casillas' and friends compete in series of competitions against Nadal and friends.

Plan- Just days after winning the Euro 2008, Casillas visited a remote Peruvian community to help highlight Plan International's work. They help Children who need education to prepare for their future. [17]

References

  1. ^ http://es.fifa.com/mm/document/classic/awards/99/15/28/resultsmenforfifa.combyplayer.pdf
  2. ^ Sky Sports - Casillas and Raul commit to Real
  3. ^ "Forever white - Raúl and Casillas sign lifelong contracts with Real Madrid". Realmadrid.com. 2008-02-14. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  4. ^ http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_4581884,00.html
  5. ^ Source: http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/capitan-casillas-todo-empezo-suecia/dasftb/20061007dasdaiftb_25/Tes?print=1
  6. ^ Germany 0–1 Spain: Torres ends Spain's pain, Soccernet.
  7. ^ http://www.realmadrid.com/cs/Satellite/en/1202743931728/noticia/Noticia/Casillas:_Scoreless_streak.htm
  8. ^ FIFA Fever Centennial Anniversary (1904–2004) DVD
  9. ^ http://www.iffhs.de/?388d85ff8b00388f05f68e05b85fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeedb8a212
  10. ^ http://www.iffhs.de/?388d85ff8b00388f05f4cbc0385fdcdc3bfcdc0aec70aeedb88419
  11. ^ "IKER CASILLAS FERNÁNDEZ - PLAYER PROFILE". Realmadrid.com. Retrieved 2008-06-27. (See Honours section)
  12. ^ Don Balón Premio Don Balón
  13. ^ "Team of the Year 2007 announced". UEFA.com. 2008-03-11. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
  14. ^ http://www1.uefa.com/fanzone/teamoftheyear/news/newsid=793272.html?cid=rssfeed&att=index
  15. ^ "Spain dominate Team of the Tournament". UEFA.com. 2008-06-30. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  16. ^ http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=999725.html
  17. ^ http://www.plan-international.org/news/iker


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