Diego Lopez, New Real Madrid goalkeeper to 2017

Last update 25 January, 2013 por Julio Muñoz

Diego López has signed for Real Madrid. Speculation lasted only a short time. The long duration of Iker Casillas' injury forced him not to waste time and Real Madrid has accelerated the deadlines to the maximum. Diego Lopez, who already played with the first team of the white team, He is a new Real Madrid player until the year 2017 after a lightning operation in which the Chamartín club has paid Sevilla about three and a half million euros.

There was no time and there was need. Diego Lopez, de 31 años, extensive experience in both the First and the Champions League and summoned on more than one occasion for the absolute selection, fulfilled all the requirements to be Adam's competition in the white goal. Además, he never finished winning the position since his arrival in Seville and it was Andrés Palop who, most of the time, occupied the goal of Seville.
The negotiations have been quick and Madrid, who apparently always wanted the player owned and not transferred, closed his transfer for around three and a half million euros, similar amount to the one that José María del Nido's team paid Villarreal for the goalkeeper last summer.

Diego Lopez, which in fact boasts in his record of the League 2006-2007 with Fabio Capello's Real Madrid, comes to a set that you know well, since he played in the lower categories since he landed in the capital in the year 2000 from Lugo. Real Madrid C, Real Madrid Castilla and, finally, en 2005, the first team, with which he disputed 11 meetings in three seasons until he decided to leave for Villarreal in the year 2007.