7/15/2025–|Last update: 17:09 (Mecca time)
Valde Valverde, Real Madrid football player, has achieved an unprecedented achievement among all football players in the world during one long and very arduous season.
The Uruguayan international played 72 games, including 65 games with Real Madrid and 7 games with the national team, and played 6116 minutes, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca.
Throughout the season, Valverde was only 3 games, against Girona and Beetis in the league, and against Real Sociedad in the cup, which made him the most used player led by former Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Valverde played in the right -back position in some matches of the last season and also against Paris Saint -Germain in the Club World Cup, which Chelsea crowned.
“I see Valverde in several places, he is like Stephen Gerrard (former Liverpool player).”.
Valverde and Modric exceeded the 70 -games barrier this season with the Club World Cup, the Champions League with its new system, which included two additional matches for Real Madrid because he did not qualify directly to the round of 16 and a Spanish league that includes 20 teams.
In terms of the number of matches with the club and the national team, there is one player in Real Madrid that excels over Valverde, who is Modric, who is moving to Milan, Italy.
Croatian has 63 games with the club, but he has 10 games with the Croatian national team, bringing the record number 73 games.
The first five players, according to the minutes of playing in one season
- Uruguayan Vidy Valverde (Real Madrid): 6116 minutes in 72 games.
- Portuguese Bruno Fernandez (Manchester United): 5796 minutes in 66 games.
- French Mike Mainan (Italian Milan): 5624 minutes in 63 games.
- German Joshua Kimish (Bayern Munich): 5529 minutes in 64 games.
- Croatian Yusko Gvardol (Manchester City): 5459 minutes.
Although he lost the Club World Cup semi-finals against Paris Saint-Germain 04, Real Madrid managed to break its record for the largest number of matches in one season (68 games), exceeding the record recorded in the 2001-2002 season with 66 games.
Also, the Royal Club was close, with a slight difference from Chelsea’s record, which played 69 games in the 2012-2013 season.
