Real Madrid C.F. Squad (2008-2009)

As of 25 February 2009.^[73][74]

No. Position Player 1 GK Iker Casillas (vice-captain) 2 DF Míchel Salgado 3 DF Pepe 4 DF Sergio Ramos 5 DF Fabio Cannavaro 6 MF Lassana Diarra 7 FW Raúl (captain) 8 MF Fernando Gago 9 FW Javier Saviola 10 MF Wesley Sneijder 11 MF Arjen Robben 12 MF Marcelo 13 GK Jordi Codina 14 MF Guti (vice-captain)

No. Position Player 15 MF Royston Drenthe 16 DF Gabriel Heinze 17 MF Dani Parejo 18 MF Julien Faubert (on loan from West Ham United) 19 FW Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 20 FW Gonzalo Higuaín 21 DF Christoph Metzelder 22 DF Miguel Torres 23 MF Rafael van der Vaart 24 MF Javi García 25 GK Jerzy Dudek — MF Rubén de la Red — MF Mahamadou Diarra — FW Ruud van Nistelrooy

Squad information

N	P	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Since	App	Goals	Ends	Transfer fee	Notes
1	GK		Iker Casillas (VC)	28	EU	1999	468	0	2017	Youth system
13	GK		Jordi Codina	27	EU	2007	1	0	2010	Youth system
25	GK		Jerzy Dudek	36	EU	2007	13	0	2009	Free
5	DF		Fabio Cannavaro	35	EU	2006	110	2	2009	€10M
3	DF		Pepe	26	EU	2007	64	0	2012	€30M	Second nationality: Brazil
21	DF		Christoph Metzelder	28	EU	2007	29	0	2010	Free
4	DF		Sergio Ramos	23	EU	2005	176	22	2013	€27M
2	DF		Míchel Salgado (VC)	33	EU	1999	369	5	2009	€11M
22	DF		Miguel Torres	23	EU	2007	67	0	2012	Youth system
16	DF		Gabriel Heinze	31	EU	2007	60	3	2011	€12M	Second nationality: Italy
12	DF		Marcelo	21	Non-EU	2007 (Winter)	71	4	2012	€6.5M	Second nationality: Spain
6	MF		Lassana Diarra	23	EU	2009 (Winter)	21	0	2013	€20M	#39 in UCL Second nationality: Mali
8	MF		Fernando Gago	23	EU	2007 (Winter)	89	1	2012	€20M	Second nationality: Italy
6	MF		Mahamadou Diarra	28	EU	2006	97	4	2011	€26M
24	MF		Javi García	22	EU	2004	21	0	2012	€4M
18	MF		Rubén de la Red	23	EU	2004	27	3	2011	€4.7M
14	MF		Guti (VC)	32	EU	1995	506	77	2010	Youth system
17	MF		Dani Parejo	20	EU	2009 (Winter)	5	0	2011	Youth system	Unregistered in UCL
10	MF		Wesley Sneijder	24	EU	2007	64	11	2012	€27M
23	MF		Rafael van der Vaart	26	EU	2008	37	5	2013	€13M
15	MF		Royston Drenthe	22	EU	2007	52	4	2012	€13M	Second nationality: Suriname
18	MF		Julien Faubert	25	EU	2009 (Winter)	2	0	2009	Loan	Second nationality: Martinique
11	FW		Arjen Robben	24	EU	2007	64	13	2012	€36M
20	FW		Gonzalo Higuaín	21	EU	2007 (Winter)	72	35	2013	€13M	Second nationality: France
7	FW		Raúl (captain)	31	EU	1994	702	316	2011	Youth system
9	FW		Javier Saviola	27	EU	2007	38	7	2011	Free	Second nationality: Spain
17	FW		Ruud van Nistelrooy	32	EU	2006	93	63	2010	€15M
19	FW		Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	25	EU	2009 (Winter)	19	8	2013	€20M
28	FW		Alberto Bueno	21	EU	2008	5	1	Undisclosed	Youth system
35	FW		Miquel Palanca	21	EU	2008	3	0	Undisclosed	Youth system
27	DF		Javier Velayos	22	EU	2006	0	0	Undisclosed	Youth system
36	CB		Gary Kagelmacher	21	EU	2008	1	0	Undisclosed	Youth system	Second nationality: Germany
35	FW		Marcos Tébar	23	EU	2008	1	0	Undisclosed	Youth system

• Last updated: 2009-06-01
• Source: Players transfer, Wikipedia players' articles,

ESPN (for appearances and goals) and soccer-spain.com (for EU passport)

• Ordered by position on pitch.