Funfacher Champions League winner
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After ten professional years at Real, Lucas Vázquez Madrid had left in summer. Now the career of the 34 -year -old right -back at Bayer Leverkusen seems to continue. For the Werkelf, it would be a transfer -free transfer and one of the oldest new additions in club history.
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According to the transfer reporter Fabrizio Romano, a signature of Vázquez am Rhein is imminent. Leverkusen agreed with the Spaniard. The medical check has already taken place in secret. The signature should follow on Tuesday. For five times the Champions League winner, it would be the first abroad after the departure of the training club. He only left Real Madrid once for a loan to Espanyol Barcelona 2014/15.
So far, Leverkusen had only signed a player eight times who had already had his 34th birthday. Among the field players, Vázquez would only be the fifth Ü34 access of the Werkself. Previously, in 1994/95 Rudi Völler at the age of 34 and 2006/07 Sergej Barbarez (34), 2008/09 Tomasz Zdebel (35) and 2009/10 Sami Hyypiä (35). Bayer 04 only won replacement goalkeeper Janis Blaswich (34) this summer.
Vázquez had been trained at Real since 2007, but had only played his first professional games in football during his Espanyol loan in 2014/15. On the right outer track, he came to 39 competitive games with four goals and seven assists from the Barcelona club. Real then won the native Galician. From the beginning of 2016, he developed into a regular player and made the first 33 of his 402 games for Real in the 2015/16 season, already contributed the first four of his 38 goals and the first ten of his 73 assists. Vázquez was able to win the title in the Champions League five times with the royal; That had only succeeded in 19 other players next to him in football history.