Dani Carvajal will surely not miss tonight’s Europa League final between Leverkusen and Atalanta under any circumstances. The Real Madrid full-back has wonderful memories of his time in Germany in the 2012-2013 season.the only one in which he has played outside the white team.
At the Bay Arena he cut his teeth as a footballer after leaving Castilla and, after that brilliant time in the Bundesliga, Real Madrid picked him up forever. The rest is history. One of the best right backs in the history of the Bernabu club had his Erasmus in Germany and made the most of it.
With the aspirin team he played 32 games in the Bundesliga and scored one goal. He was a key step in his formation when he was barely 20 years old. He arrived without experience in the elite and with the idea of gradually entering the team, but he became indisputable from the beginning.
Leverkusen paid 5 million for him, but Madrid had saved a buyback option of 6.5 million that they executed at the end of Carvajal’s first and only campaign in Germany. He had signed for five and left the first summer. The love affair with the German club, in any case, remained forever. Also today in the Europa League final.
