Fernando Hierro is an ex-football player of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, one of the best defenders in the history of the royal club. He was distinguished by a tough confident game on the back line, as well as leadership qualities on the field and in the locker room.
Fernando Hierro: biography and facts from life
The future football star was born in March 1968 in the small Spanish city of Velez-Malaga. Fernando was destined to become a football player, since since childhood he had watched the successes in this sport of his older brother Manolo, who professionally defended the colors of Valladolid, Barcelona, Tenerife and other Spanish clubs.
But what about Fernando? For seven years, the young man defended the colors of the local youth team, and in 1987 signed his first professional contract with the Valladolid football club.
In total, in sports Yerro spent eighteen years, during which he managed to play in four clubs and in three countries.
It is noteworthy that with 29 goals, the Spanish defender takes fourth place in the history of the Spanish national team. Despite his role, Fernando Hierro scored a lot in a red T-shirt, especially with his head.
Carier start
In his first team, Valladolid, the football player played two seasons and quickly turned from a young and promising player into a player of the main squad. In total for the “white-purple” Hierro spent two seasons and took part in 57 matches of his club.
For the championship of Spain, it is a common practice when a young and talented footballer "gets on the radar" of one of two giants - Real Madrid or Barcelona. This happened in the case of a native of a suburb of Malaga. Fernando noticed in the Madrid club and already at the beginning of the next season, Hierro tried on a creamy T-shirt.
Legend
For Fernando Hierro, Real Madrid became a team in which the defender spent the next fourteen years of his career. For the Spanish defender, these were truly golden times, in every sense of the word. As part of the “creamy” Big Captain, as the fans of the capital's club called him, he won the prestigious UEFA Champions League three times and once the European Super Cup. In national raffles, Hierro five times became the champion of Spain and once again lifted the Cup of the country over his head. In the summer of 2003, Fernando was forced to shed tears of the royal club’s thousands of torsids, when his departure was announced at Santiago Bernabeo.
With the end of appearances by the defender for Real Madrid, an entire era in the history of the royal club ended. The "big captain", without exaggeration, has become its symbol, and the audience at the "Santiago Bernabeu" never forgets their legends such as Alfredo di Stefano, Raul Gonzalez, Roberto Carlos, Fernando Hierro. The photo of the Spanish defender to this day can be found on different pages of the history of the Madrid club, and rest assured, the workers of the club museum "Real" have something to tell about this person.
On the Sunset
In 2003, a football veteran moved to Qatari Al-Ryan for one season, where he showed himself very well, marking himself with three goals. At the end of his career, Hierro managed to play in the English Premier League, where for one season he defended the colors of Bolton.
