Captain needed. Reason: Real Madrid. With the departure of Benzema, the team will have a new leader on the pitch. This will be the third season in a row that the Real Madrid armband has changed arms. The Frenchman inherited it from Marcelo last summer, who he has equaled this season as the player with the most titles (25) in the club’s history. And the Brazilian full-back, in turn, received from Ramos when he moved to PSG in 2021. Nacho, Modric, Carvajal and Kroos are the main candidates to wear the Madrid captain’s armband.
The hierarchy in the captaincy of the White Club is ordered by seniority in the team. Under this criteria, the 33-year-old Nacho would be the new captain if Real Madrid decide to renew his contract. The man from Complutense made his debut with the first team on April 23, 2011 in the Mestalla (3–6 against Valencia), when he was still a Castilla player. It was the first of 318 games he played with the first team. In 18 of those games, the youngster served as captain.
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In the event that Nacho also leaves Ancelotti’s team, next in line is Luka Modric. The Croatian arrived at Real Madrid in 2012 and has played 487 games in the white shirt. Modric, who has captained the Croatian team since 2016, also knows what it is like to wear the armband, a role he has played in seven matches as a starter. In fact, in the previous match against Sevilla in Pizjuan, Balcon was Madrid’s captain.
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Dani Carvajal is in third place on the list. The man from Leganes, who joined the club in 2002 while still a teenager (he was the boy chosen to lay the first stone of the sporting city Valdebebas along with Di Stefano), made his debut in the first team in August 2013. Did. Erasmus year at Bayer Leverkusen. He has played 374 matches and is yet to become the starting captain in any game.
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The fourth is the cross. The German landed at the Bernabeu in 2014 after being world champion with Germany. He has played 416 games in his inseparable white boots and, unlike Carvajal, Toni has been captain in one game: the first round of the league against Mallorca at the Bernabeu this season.
