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David Olatukunbo Alaba (born 24 June 1992) is an Austrian professional
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who plays as a
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or
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for
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club
Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
and captains the Austria national team. Alaba started out in Bayern's
youth system In sporting terminology, a youth system (or youth academy) is a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team in the future if t ...
before being promoted to the
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for the 2009–10 season. In January 2011, Alaba joined
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 18 ...
on loan until the end of the 2010–11 season. He returned to Bayern at the start of the 2011–12 season, where he went on to become a regular member of the first-team squad. Alaba made over 400 appearances for
Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...
, winning 27 honours including ten
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titles and two
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titles in 2013 and 2020, both as part of trebles. During his time in Germany, he was named in the
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three times. In 2021, Alaba signed for Real Madrid; he won the 2021–22 La Liga, Supercopa and Champions League title in his debut season. Alaba is Austria's second youngest player to play for their senior national team, debuting for them in 2009 as a 17-year-old. He has earned over 90 caps and represented his country at
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and
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. He was voted
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
on nine occasions (including six consecutive times from 2011 to 2016).


Club career


Early career

Born in
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, Alaba began his career with SV Aspern, his local club in Aspern, in the Vienna district
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, before joining the youth setup of FK Austria Wien at age 10. He rose through the ranks quickly, and in April 2008 he was named on the first-team substitutes' bench for an
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match. He also played five times for Austria Wien's
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, before leaving in summer 2008 to join German
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side
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.


Bayern Munich


Youth, reserves and Hoffenheim loan

He started out in Bayern's
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, playing for the under 17 and under 19 teams, before being promoted to the
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for the 2009–10 season. He made his debut in a 3. Liga match against
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in August 2009 and scored his first professional goal for FC Bayern Munich II on 29 August 2009. He was named in
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's squad for the 2009–10
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, where he was assigned the shirt number 27. In January 2010, it was announced that Alaba would train with the first team for the rest of the 2009–10 season, along with reserve teammates Diego Contento and Mehmet Ekici. The trio were named on the first-team substitutes' bench for the first time on 10 February 2010, for a
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game against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, and Alaba came on in the 59th minute, replacing
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. After one minute on the pitch, and with his second touch of the game, he set up
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to give Bayern a 3–2 lead, in a match they went on to win 6–2. He also became Bayern's youngest ever player in a competitive fixture, at 17 years, 7 months and 8 days old. In January 2011, Alaba joined
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 18 ...
on loan until the end of the 2010–11 season. Later that month, he scored his first-ever goal in the Bundesliga in a 2–2 draw with FC St. Pauli.


2011–2013

Alaba returned to Bayern at the start of the 2011–12 season, where he became a regular member of the first-team squad. On 23 October 2011, Alaba scored his first league goal for Bayern in the 1–2 away loss against
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. On 20 December, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the first time. During the second half of the
2011–12 Bundesliga The 2011–12 Bundesliga was the 49th season of the Bundesliga, Germany's premier football league. The season started on 5 August 2011 with the opening match involving defending champions Borussia Dortmund and ended with the last games on 5 May ...
season, he established himself as a starter for Bayern. On 25 April 2012, he played in the
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semi-final second leg against
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, and scored Bayern's first kick of the
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as they won 3–1 on penalties. However, due to being booked in the semi-final, Alaba was unable to play in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final through suspension. On 5 December, Alaba scored his first Champions League goal in a 4–1 win over BATE Borisov in the 2012–13 season. On 18 December, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the second year running. On 2 April 2013, Alaba scored the seventh-fastest goal (25.02 seconds) in Champions League history to set Bayern on their way to a 2–0 win over
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. On 25 May, he played the full 90 minutes at left-back as Bayern beat
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2–1 in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final.


2013–2015

During the 2013–14 season, he played in the 2013 DFL-Supercup against
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, the
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against Chelsea, and two matches in the
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; the first against
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and the second against
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. On 2 December 2013, Alaba signed a new contract with Bayern Munich, which would expire in 2018. On 20 December, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the third year running. In January 2014, Alaba was named as the left-back in the UEFA Team of the Year 2013 for the first time. On 18 December 2014, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the fourth year running. In January 2015, he was voted as the left-back in the UEFA.com Team of the Year 2014 by users (352,070 votes) for the second consecutive year. On 31 March, Alaba suffered a medial ligament damage in his left knee during Austria's 1–1 friendly draw with
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. Alaba missed the rest of the season for Bayern because of the injury.


2015–2021

In August 2015 against his former club 1899 Hoffenheim, Alaba's misplaced pass resulted in
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scoring in nine seconds, the quickest Bundesliga goal of all time. On 17 December, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the fifth consecutive year. On 8 January 2016, Alaba was voted as the left-back in the UEFA.com Team of the Year 2015 for the third consecutive year. On 18 March, he extended his contract until 2021. On 21 December, Alaba was named
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
for the sixth year running. On 10 February 2018, Alaba made his 200th Bundesliga appearance in a 2–1 win over
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. During the 2019–20 season, Alaba was converted to the
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position, often partnering up with
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, due to an injury crisis. He adapted to the position very well and soon became the leader of the defence. On 23 August 2020, he played the full 90 minutes at centre-back as Bayern beat
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1–0 in the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final. Bayern Munich went on to have their second treble-winning season after 2012–13, and thereby Alaba securing his second continental treble in his career. After several attempts to extend his contract, Alaba mentioned that Bayern Munich asked him earlier whether he was interested in a swap deal with
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from
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, which he considered as a "slap in the face". On 16 February 2021, Alaba announced that he would leave Bayern Munich following the 2020–21 season after thirteen years with the club.


Real Madrid

On 28 May 2021, Spanish side
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announced they had signed Alaba on a five-year contract beginning on 1 July. He inherited the number 4 jersey, previously worn by the last captain
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over the past 16 seasons. He made his debut on 14 August, starting in a 4–1 win over Alavés. He scored his first goal on 24 October in a 2–1 win over Barcelona, his first
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, becoming the second Austrian player to score in El Clasico history after
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(1979). On 6 April 2022, Alaba made his 100th Champions League appearance in a 3–1 away win against Chelsea in the quarter-final of the competition. On 10 August 2022, he got the opening goal in the 2022 UEFA Super Cup against
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with Real Madrid going on to win 2–0. On 14 August, he scored the winning goal for Real Madrid from a free kick in a 2–1 away victory against
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.


International career

Alaba played for Austria at under-17, under-19 and under-21 level. In October 2009, he was called up to the senior
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national team for a match against
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. He made his debut in this game, making him the youngest player in the history of the Austrian national team. He scored his first goal for Austria on 16 October 2012 in a World Cup Qualifying game at home to
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where Austria were 4–0 winners. At the age of just 19, Alaba won the prestigious vote for
Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
in 2011. In the poll organised by APA (Austrian press agency) among the coaches of the ten
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clubs, Alaba finished top on 21 points, just ahead of Austria Wien's Dutch star
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(20 points) and
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's
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. In December 2012, he received the award for the second consecutive year. On 10 September 2013, Alaba scored the only goal of the game against Ireland in the 84-minute to give Austria a 1–0. He scored the final goal in Austria's 3–0 win in the final qualification match against
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. Alaba ended the
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campaign as Austria's top scorer with six goals. He scored a ninth-minute Panenka-style penalty kick on 8 September 2015 to open a 4–1 away win over
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at the Friends Arena in
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. The result qualified Austria for
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, their first successful qualification campaign for the continental championship. Alaba played in all three group matches as Austria finished last in their group with one point. On 24 March 2017, he captained Austria for the first time in a World Cup 2018 qualification game against
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in a 2–0 victory, deputizing in the absence of suspended captain
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. Alaba played in eight matches as Austria failed to qualify for the
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. Alaba captained Austria during the
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, in which they reached the knockout stages in that competition for the first time in their history.


Personal life

Alaba was born in
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to Gina and George Alaba and has one sister, a professional recording artist, named Rose May Alaba. His
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mother emigrated from the
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to work as a nurse. His
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father is a prince from
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who is also a
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and works as a DJ. The footballer is a member of the
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.


Outside football

Alaba was chosen to be on the cover of ''
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'' and ''
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'' in Austria next to
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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Alaba goal.''


Honours

Bayern Munich *
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: 2009–10, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,
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DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...
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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
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UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...
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UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions; the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was originall ...
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2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
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FIFA Club World Cup The FIFA Club World Cup is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The competition was first contested in 200 ...
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La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Banco Santander, Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaL ...
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Supercopa de España The Supercopa de España or the ''Spanish Super Cup'' is a super cup tournament in Spanish football. Founded in 1982 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2019–20 by four teams: the winners and runners-up of ...
: 2021–22 * UEFA Champions League: 2021–22 * UEFA Super Cup:
2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
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Austrian Footballer of the Year The Austrian Footballer of the Year award (german: APA-Fußballerwahl) is an annual football award, established in Austria in 1984 and sponsored by the Austria Press Agency (APA). The coaches of all Austrian Football Bundesliga clubs vote to elect t ...
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Austrian Sports Personality of the Year The Austrian Sports Personality of the Year is chosen annually since 1949. Recordholders are Annemarie Moser-Pröll (seven awards) and Marcel Hirscher (six awards). In 1978 and 1979 the Austria national football team was named Austrian Sports Team ...
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UEFA Team of the Year The UEFA Fan's Team of the Year is a football award given by UEFA through a poll on its official website. This award started in 2001 and allows users of the organization's website to choose their own eleven players and a coach based on their ove ...
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ESM Team of the Year The European Sports Media (ESM), formerly European Sports Magazines, is an association of football-related publications in Europe. Members European Sports Media was established in 1989 as an international body for football journalism. Its nine fo ...
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France Football ''France Football'' is a French weekly magazine containing football news from all over the world. It is considered to be one of the most reputable sports publications in Europe, mostly because of its photographic reports, in-depth and exclusiv ...
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Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footb ...
Team of the Season: 2014–15, 2015–16 * ESPN FC Best Left-Back 2016 * La Liga Team of the Season: 2021–22


See also

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List of footballers with 100 or more UEFA Champions League appearances Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup to UEFA Champions League in 1992 at the start of the 1992–93 season, a total of 47 players have managed to make at least 100 appearances in the competition. The first player to hit the lan ...


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