de gea used to play for atlético madrid.
de gea used to play for atlético madrid.
who did de gea used to play for?
atlético madrid
born in madrid and raised in illescas, de gea joined atlético madrid at the age of 13 when his then-coach juan luis martín lied to the club that rayo vallecano were set to sign him. a few days later, diego díaz garrido scouted de gea and signed him immediately. he made his way up through the youth ranks at the club before signing his first professional contract in 2008, aged 17, contracting him to atlético until 2011. he spent his second season for atlético madrid b in segunda división b. in the summer of 2009, de gea was approached by numancia and english team queens park rangers with regards to a loan move, with atlético sporting director jesús garcía pitarch pushing for him to move to numancia. de gea rejected the approach, and was punished by being forced to train by himself. weeks later, atlético manager abel resino noticed de gea training alone and invited him to train with the first team, where he was rated as the third-choice goalkeeper. the same summer, atlético rejected an offer from english team wigan athletic for a permanent transfer for de gea.
david de gea
on 23 october 2011, de gea played as manchester united suffered their worst home defeat since 1955 with a 6–1 loss against cross-town rivals manchester city, the first time united had conceded six goals at home since 1930. de gea was in goal during the league defeat to blackburn rovers and was blamed by most media outlets for failing to deal with an aerial ball that led to the conceding of a late goal by grant hanley in a 3–2 defeat. de gea was nonplussed by the error, saying, "all keepers make mistakes once in a while and none of us like it when we do. i have every intention of spending many years here at manchester united. i want to become a great united keeper and i want to earn and deserve the respect i hope to get," and spoke of his intentions of surpassing his predecessor: "hopefully, i will equal or even surpass the performance and contribution edwin van der sar made to the club." after this match, de gea was dropped and replaced by united's second-choice goalkeeper, anders lindegaard. an injury to lindegaard saw de gea return to the starting line-up for a 3–3 draw with chelsea at stamford bridge on 5 february 2012. de gea later cited his last-minute save from juan mata during this match as the turning point in his season, as he went on to play the club's last 19 matches, keeping eight clean sheets.
david de gea