Swiss defender Rodriguez Ricardo

Rodriguez Ricardo is one of the strongest leftdefenders in modern football. He has been in favor of the German "Wolfsburg" for four years, but recently he has been increasingly promoted to stronger clubs. Rodriguez Ricardo this year celebrated his 24th birthday, and he still has many years of football.

Carier start

Rodriguez Ricardo was born on August 25, 1992 inSwitzerland, where he started playing football. He has a Swiss passport only for the reason that he was born on the territory of this country, but he himself is from a Spanish-Chilean family. At the age of nine, Rodriguez joined the football academy of the club "Schwamendingen", where he spent three years before being screened in one of the strongest clubs in Switzerland - "Zurich". In 2004, he moved there and already up to eighteen years he performed at the youth academy in different age categories. In 2010, when the defender became an adult, he was signed with a professional contract. However, he had already played six games, while he was still only 17.

In his first season for the club Rodriguez Ricardocame on the field only 14 times and scored one goal, and in the second season he was already a regular base player. In just six months he spent 26 matches, marking another goal when he noticed the German "Wolfsburg". "Wolves" gave eight and a half million euros for a young talented football player, and they never regretted it.

The game for "Wolfsburg"

Ricardo Rodriguez immediately became a player in theclub - he spent 17 matches for Wolfsburg for six months, and from the next season began to win the role of a key player. In the next four seasons he went on the field 149 more times, marking in the amount of 20 goals. It was with the "Wolfsburg" defender won his first trophy - the German Cup in 2015. And it was in the camp of the "wolves" that Rodriguez became one of the strongest left-wing defenders in the world, thus attracting the attention of many top clubs, including even Madrid "Real". But so far the player has not dared to take such a serious step.

In the current season he has already played 10 matches for"Wolves", scoring one goal and giving one goal assist. Rodriguez left to play just two games to get around Siegfried Reich and enter the top ten record holders of the club in terms of the number of games played.

National team appearances

Ricardo Rodriguez is a footballer who alsois an important part of the national team of Switzerland. There he debuted in October 2011 and has since played 44 matches, which scored one goal and scored six assists. Together with the team, he went to the World Cup in 2014, where in the first match he gave two assists, as well as the European Championship in 2016.