IKER CASILLAS FERNANDES PLAYED FOR REAL MADRID AT EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE..

Iker Casillas Fernandes but known as Iker Casillas , was a product of the youth academy of Real Madrid in Spain. In the year 1998/1999 champion league season Real Madrid had the German world cup 1990 winner Bodo Illgner as their goalkeeper, but unfortunately he was badly injured and was out for a long time. Now the football clubs let their youngsters in the youth academy to play their football in the day time and to do their school lessons in the evenings. In the year 1998 Iker Casillas was studying for a exam when the member of the board of Real Madrid , came and told Iker Casillas that he would have to pack his bags up as he would be flying for the champion league match as the first choice goalkeeper , as Bodo Illgner was injured. You can very well imagine what might have gone on in the mind of Iker Casillas, after all he was just 18, eighteen years old boy then. But as he had never ever played for the Real Madrid main team , and here he was standing between the goal posts for Real Madrid, he was the goal keeper for Real Madrid in a champion League game , before even getting his driving licence , he must have been shaking like a leaf, but he did not show any signs of nervousness he had nerves of steel I must say. From the day onwards the Real Madrid goalkeepers place was his to keep, he also won the European Cup and also the world cup for Spain. Now in the champion League he has shifted to F.C. Porto, he has now played in the campion League for 20, twenty years on the trot, no footballer has ever done this in the champion league history.