{"id":17635,"date":"2025-08-27T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17635"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:04:07","slug":"leverkusen-sign-former-real-madrid-defender-vazquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17635","title":{"rendered":"Leverkusen sign former Real Madrid defender Vazquez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Real Madrid right back Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen until 2027, the German club announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Champions League winner joins on a free transfer, having been a free agent since his Madrid contract expired in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old completed a medical in Madrid and is in line to play in Leverkusen&#8217;s next match, away at Werder Bremen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Vazquez said he was &#8220;looking forward to continuing my career at Leverkusen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vazquez revealed former Leverkusen coach and current Real manager Xabi Alonso and one-time Leverkusen player Dani Carvajal, who is now at Madrid, helped convince him to join the German side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Lucas Vazquez we are signing an extremely experienced player who has won everything there was to win with Real Madrid over the past ten years,&#8221; said Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes, adding the newcomer would become &#8220;a pillar&#8221; of the side.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen were looking for a right-back after Jeremie Frimpong&#8217;s move to Liverpool at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a short stint at Espanyol, Vazquez spent his entire career with Real Madrid, winning four La Liga titles.<\/p>\n<p>Trent Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s arrival at Real meant Vazquez fell lower in the pecking order at right back, but the nine-time capped Spanish player wanted to continue his career.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeaten domestic double winners two seasons ago, Leverkusen have undergone a complete rebuild this summer, with several key players leaving the club.<\/p>\n<p>Florian Wirtz, Granit Xhaka and Frimpong have all left for the Premier League, Jonathan Tah joined league rivals Bayern Munich and coach Xabi Alonso moved to Real Madrid.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid right back Lucas Vazquez has joined Bayer Leverkusen until 2027, the German club announced on Tuesday. The five-time Champions League winner joins on a free transfer, having been a free agent since his Madrid contract expired in the summer. The 34-year-old completed a medical in Madrid and is in line to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}