Esteban Granero

Esteban Granero
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Esteban_Granero".

content

Personal information
Esteban Granero

Full name	Esteban Granero Molina
Date of birth	July 2, 1987 (1987-07-02) (age 21)
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Getafe CF
Number	25
Youth clubs
1995–2004	Real Madrid
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2004–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008 2008–	Real Madrid C Real Madrid Castilla →Getafe CF (loan) Getafe CF	48 (9) 36 (4) 27 (3) 0 (0)
National team
2006–2007 2007–	Spain U-19 Spain U-21
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 1, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Esteban Granero Molina, Granero (born 2 July 1987 in Madrid), is a Spanish football midfielder, currently with Getafe CF. He is affectionately known as "El pirata" (The pirate).

1 Club career
2 Honours
3 Statistics
- 3.1 All-time club performance
4 References
5 External links

Club career

Granero joined the youth ranks of Real Madrid when he was just eight years old and has displayed his footballing talent since he was a child. In one season he scored 83 goals in the Under-10 division, and in 1999 he captained the Under-12 B team that won the International Football-7 tournament held in the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona by defeating Barça 1-0 with his overtime goal. He was also named the best player of the competition.

Granero joined Real Madrid C at the age of 17, where he stood out for his talent and passing skills. That same season, he debuted with Real Madrid Castilla in a match against Albacete, during which he had a goal assist. Granero made the jump to Castilla in 2006-07, and slowly earned the confidence of coach Míchel until finally becoming an unquestionable starter.

He would eventually fail to make the definitive transition into the first team, deemed surplus to requirements, as were fellow cantera players Rubén de la Red, Javi García and Adrián González and, on August 31, the last day of the transfer window, Granero moved to Getafe CF (also in Madrid) on a 1-year loan. De la Red also joined Getafe, albeit in a different deal. After the season's end, in which himself and De la Red were instrumental in the team's season, which included a quarter finals run in the UEFA Cup, Granero returned to Real Madrid.

On July 13, 2008, Granero permanently joined Getafe, for a fee of around €24million.^[1]