Nacho Fernandez to stay at Real Madrid until 2023

 

Real Madrid have announced that Nacho Fernandez has renewed his contract at the club, with his new deal set to expire in 2023.

This is a one-year extension to his previous contract, as Los Blancos wanted to ensure that there were no doubts about his future in the 2021/22 season.

Nacho, who joined Real Madrid’s academy 20 years ago, recently celebrated a decade as a first-team player at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, having made his debut in April 2011 under Jose Mourinho in a resounding 6-3 win against Valencia at Mestalla.

Since then, Nacho has gone on to play 233 games for Real Madrid, in addition to the 111 he played for Castilla, with whom he won promotion to the Segunda Division in the 2011/12 campaign.

The 31-year-old’s first-team honours include the four Champions League trophies won by Los Blancos between 2014 and 2018. In total, he has played 44 games in Europe’s premier club competition.

Last season saw Nacho make 33 appearances under Zinedine Zidane, as he made a good impression in the latter part of the campaign alongside Eder Militao or Raphael Varane at centre-back.

This renewal brings Nacho ever closer to his dream of retiring as a one-club man, a status that no other player in the Real Madrid enjoys.

Other players that came through La Fabrica, such as Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vazquez, spent brief spells at other clubs before then returning to Los Merengues.

That is not the case for Nacho, who has only ever worn Real Madrid’s shirt in the 10 years since he made his first-team debut.

Nacho has made a total of 22 caps for Spain, but absence from La Roja’s squad for Euro 2020 caused many to scratch their heads due to his excellent form in the second half of the 2020/21 season.

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