Raphaël Varane

Raphaël Varane (July 2011)

Raphaël Varane (born 25 April 1993 Lille ) is a French football player who is under contract with the Spanish giants Real Madrid since the 2011/12 season.

Career

Association

Varane was born in Lille in 1993, his father is from the Caribbean island of Martinique. He began at the age of seven years at the small club AS Hellemmes play with the football. In 2002, he decided against his hometown club Lille OSC and moved to the youth department of RC Lens. In 2009 he won the U-16 team to the Championnat National des 16 ans. In the 2009/10 season he played with 16 years already in the U-19 team of the club. In summer 2010, Varane signed his first professional contract and came soon after for the second team in the Championnat de France amateur to use.

In October 2010, Varane trained for the first time with the first team. Due to an injury to defender Alaeddine Yahia he was surprisingly on November 7, 2010 in the starting of the match against Montpellier HSC and celebrated his professional debut. Even after he came regularly to missions in Ligue 1, in some of which he was also a defensive midfielder. Due to its impressive performance, he was already being courted during the winter break of the 2010/11 season of numerous English top clubs. On 2 February 2011, he extended his contract prematurely, however by 2015. On 7 May 2011, he scored in the 1-1 draw against SM Caen his first goal in professional football. Despite the good performance of Varane of Lens got off at the end of the season and had to join the in the Ligue 2.

On 27 June 2011 Varanes Change to Spanish giants Real Madrid was announced. Previously, the top clubs Manchester United and Paris Saint- Germain interest in an undertaking had shown. The transfer to Madrid finally came at the instigation of Zinedine Zidane in his role as advisor to the Royal materialize. Varane made ​​his debut on 21 September 2011, being the fifth matchday of the 2011/12 season, a 0-0 Liga draw against Racing Santander in La Liga. The next Round on 24 September he scored in a 6-2 home win over Rayo Vallecano 4-2, and thus the time between his first goal for the Merengues. On 27 September 2011, he came in a 3-0 win over Ajax Amsterdam in the UEFA Champions League on his first outing on the international stage.

National

Varane made ​​his debut on 24 August 2010 in the game against Denmark for the French U-18 national team, in which he scored his goal for the 2-0 win. As a result, he gave up some stakes in the U-18 selection, as he wanted to concentrate on his work at Lens, so that it only ran aground once more. Previously, he had also been appointed to the U-17 national team, but for which he did not play.

On 8 February 2011 Varane played his first game wearing the jersey of the French U- 21 team against Slovakia.

On August 15, 2012, he was appointed for the first time in the squad of the national team for the match against Uruguay, but did not play. In March 2013 he made ​​his debut in the World Cup qualifier against Georgia and was here in the starting lineup.

Achievements

• Spanish Champion: 2012
• Spanish Supercup: 2012