The famous Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas became the main guard in the history of UEFA club competitions.
On the eve of Porto in the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League with the score 0:1 lost to Juventus – the goalkeeper “Dragons” Iker Casillas this match was the 175th in the framework of UEFA club competitions (European Cup and UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League, Intercontinental Cup, Cup winners ‘ Cup, UEFA super Cup and the Intertoto Cup).
From 1998 to 2015 Casillas played in Madrid, with whom he three times won the Champions League and played 157 matches in the competition. In the “Port” for two seasons, the Spaniard 18 times out on the field in the Champions League and the Europa League.
Top 10 guards in the history of the Champions League:
1. Iker Casillas (Spain – real Madrid, FC Porto) – 175 games
2. Paolo Maldini (Italy – Milan) – 174
3. Xavi Hernandez (Spain – Barcelona) – 173
4. Clarence Seedorf (Netherlands – Ajax, Real Madrid, Inter, Milan) – 163
5. Raul Gonzalez (Spain, Real Madrid, Schalke) – 161
6. Javier Zanetti (Inter) – 160
7. Ryan Giggs (“Manchester United”) – 159
8. Pepe Reina (FC Barcelona, Villarreal, Liverpool, Napoli, Bayern) – 155
9. Jamie Carragher (Liverpool) – 150
10. Gianluigi Buffon (Parma, Juventus) – 146
On 11-m a place on number of matches in the European Cup is the captain of Shakhtar Darijo Srna (145 matches). Recently, the Croat managed to beat two legends of the Kiev “Dynamo” Andriy Shevchenko and Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, who played in Europe for 143 of the match. The winner of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup winners Anatoliy Tymoshchuk 137 matches.
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