{"id":16472,"date":"2025-07-14T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/real-madrid-signs-alvaro-carreras-defensive-reinforcement-from-benfica\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:24:00","slug":"real-madrid-signs-alvaro-carreras-defensive-reinforcement-from-benfica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/real-madrid-signs-alvaro-carreras-defensive-reinforcement-from-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid Signs \u00c1lvaro Carreras: Defensive Reinforcement from Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u00c1lvaro Carreras Strengthens Real Madrid&#8217;s Defense<\/h2>\n\n\nReal Madrid has announced the incorporation of left-back \u00c1lvaro Carreras, coming from Benfica. The signing was finalized this Monday, marking a new defensive reinforcement for the team.\n\nCarreras, 22 years old, spent three years in Madrid&#8217;s youth academy before joining Manchester United in 2020. The defender becomes the club&#8217;s most recent defensive acquisition.\n\nThe club had already confirmed the arrival of center-back Dean Huijsen and right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold, as part of the renewal of the defensive line for this summer&#8217;s Club World Cup.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0519%2Fr1495205_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\u00c1lvaro Carreras ha fichado por el Real Madrid procedente del Benfica.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\u00c1lvaro Carreras has been Madrid&#8217;s preferred candidate to reinforce the left-back position, a position in which neither Ferland Mendy, who has suffered frequent injuries, nor Fran Garc\u00eda managed to convince last season.\n\nCarreras was a teammate of Ra\u00fal Asencio, another young talent from Madrid, during his time in the club&#8217;s youth academy, before choosing to join United.\n\nAfter four years in Manchester, including loan spells at Preston North End and Granada, he joined Benfica initially on loan, with an option to buy.\n\nThe Spanish under-21 international had an outstanding 2024-25 season, with 32 appearances in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, as well as playing 10 matches in the Champions League.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lvaro Carreras Strengthens Real Madrid&#8217;s Defense Real Madrid has announced the incorporation of left-back \u00c1lvaro Carreras, coming from Benfica. The signing was finalized this Monday, marking a new defensive reinforcement for the team. Carreras, 22 years old, spent three years in Madrid&#8217;s youth academy before joining Manchester United in 2020. The defender becomes the club&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5806,2444,254,1619],"class_list":{"0":"post-16472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alvaro-carreras","9":"tag-benfica","10":"tag-real-madrid","11":"tag-signing"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}