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This was made official by the white club, which will have its best goalkeeper in history working at the institution again.
Iker Casillas, former goalkeeper and former Real Madrid captain and the Spanish national team, will return to the club as deputy to the general director of the foundation, the club reported in a statement on Tuesday.
Casillas, who left for Porto in 2015 after developing his entire career as a footballer in the white team, was forced to retire in May 2019 after suffering a heart attack during training with the Portuguese team. However, he did not announce that he was retiring until August 4.
“For Real Madrid, it is a pride to receive one of its great captains back home,” said the Madrid club in its statement, which highlights that the Madrilenian is a legend of the club, represents its values and is the best goalkeeper ever.
Born in Móstoles on May 20, 1981, Casillas was called up for the first time with the first team at just 16 years old for a Champions League match in Trondheim against Norwegian Rosenborg, and did not debut in the first division as a starter until the September 12, 1999 in San Mamés against Athletic.
In total, he was in Madrid until the end of the 2014/15 campaign, when he moved to Porto, a team in which he played until May 1, 2019.
With the white club he won 19 titles in the 25 years he defended his shirt: three Champions Leagues, three Club World Cups, two European Super Cups, five Leagues, two King’s Cups and four Spanish Super Cups. With Porto he won two Leagues, a Cup and a Super Cup.
Now, more than four years after July 12, 2015, the day he announced his departure from Madrid, alone and through tears, in an act that he himself has come to admit that he did not like it and that it should not have been farewell. for a player who had been at the club for a quarter of a century, his return is announced through the Foundation.
