Federico Valverde
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Valverde in 2021 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder, Right-back | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2008 | Estudiantes de la Unión | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2015 | Peñarol | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Peñarol | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Real Madrid B | 30 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Real Madrid | 211 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Deportivo La Coruña (loan) | 24 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Uruguay U15 | 25 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Uruguay U17 | 24 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Uruguay U18 | 7 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Uruguay U20 | 15 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Uruguay | 69 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:32, 24 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:00, 25 March 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko βalˈβeɾðe]; born 22 July 1998) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Uruguay national team. Mainly a central-midfielder, he is also able to play as a defensive-midfielder, and occasionally a right-back.
Valverde began his professional career with Peñarol in 2015, winning the Uruguayan Primera División in his first season. In 2016, he joined Real Madrid, initially playing for the club's reserve team. He made his first-team debut in 2017 and has since gone on to make over 250 appearances for the club, winning three La Liga titles, two FIFA Club World Cups, two UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Super Cups, and the Copa del Rey.
Valverde made his international debut for Uruguay in 2017, and has since represented his country at three Copa América tournaments (2019, 2021, 2024) and the 2022 FIFA World Cup.