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Key facts
- 2005
- Basque Country
- 2014
- Spain
- Full name
- Raúl García Escudero
- Date of birth
- ( 1986-07-11 ) 11 July 1986 (age 39)
- Place of birth
- Pamplona , Spain
- Height
- 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Positions
- Attacking midfielder second striker
- Years
- Team
- 2004 2005
- Osasuna B
- 2004 2007
- Osasuna
- 2007 2015
- Atlético Madrid
- 2011 2012
- → Osasuna (loan)
- 2015 2024
- Athletic Bilbao
- 2006 2009
- Spain U21
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raúl
- Family name
- García
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Zizur Mayor/Zizur Nagusia
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Basque Country regional football team
- Position played
- centre-forward
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Mass
- 81
- Image
- Raúl García - 01 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.84
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- date of birth
- 1986-07-11
- Commons category
- Raúl García
- start of work period
- 2004-10-24
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 0
- name in native language
- Raúl García
- birth name
- Raúl García Escudero
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Raúl García Escudero ( Spanish pronunciation: [raˈul ɣaɾˈθi.a eskuˈðeɾo]; born 11 July 1986) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or second striker.
Developed at Osasuna, he spent most of his early career at Atlético Madrid, scoring 44 goals in 329 games in all competitions over eight seasons and winning six major titles, including the 2014 national championship and the 2010 Europa League. In 2015 he signed with Athletic Bilbao, going on to have an equally lengthy spell and win the 2021 Supercopa de España as well as the 2023–24 Copa del Rey; in 20 seasons in La Liga, he totalled 609 appearances and 110 goals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Raúl García” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.