Federico Valverde Bio, Wife, Family, Salary, Height, Wiki

Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta is a Uruguayan professional footballer. He is professionally known as Federico Valverde. He is well recognized for playing as a central midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Uruguay national team. His youth career started with the Penarol club in 2008 and in 2016, he began playing for Real Madrid's youth club. The following year Federico joined their B Team and in 2017 he was loaned out to Deportivo La Coruna. He then began playing for the Uruguay national team. He also won the FIFA Under 20 World Cup Silver Ball during the 2017 season. Moreover, Valverde scored Real Madrid’s third goal in a 3-2 win over Barcelona in extra time of the Supercopa de Espana semifinal on 12th January 2022. He scored his first Champions League goal in a 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig on 14th September 2022.

Federico Valverde Bio/Wiki

Federico Valverde was born on 22nd July 1988 with the real name of Federico Santiago Valverde Dipetta in Montevideo in Uruguay. He holds Uruguayan nationality and belongs to the White ethnicity. Likewise, his religious belief is in the Christian religion and his race is white. Federico celebrated his 24th birthday in 2022 and as per his birthdate, his zodiac sign is Cancer. He is the son of his father, Julio Valverde, and his mother, Doris Valverde. He also has one sibling a brother named Diego Valverde.

Federico Valverde  Career

Federico Valverde conceived his football career with Penarol and made his professional debut in 2015 where he quickly made an impression.  He was in the club for a year appearing in 12 games without a goal.

Real Madrid

• Federico moved to Real Madrid in July 2016 making his place in Madrid's B team and making his debut for Castilla against the Real Union. 
• Successfully, he scored his first goal for Castilla against Albacete in December 2016 and played 24 games for the club scoring 11 goals and was sent on loan to Deportivo La Coruna on 22nd June 2017 for one year.
• He has also experience representing his national side at both junior and senior levels. 
• He made his international debut in 2012 representing the Uruguayan under-15 team and was awarded Silver Ball at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup as Uruguay finished fourth in the tournament.
• He made his international debut with the senior team on September 5th against Paraguay and scored his first international goal.
• Federico made a facial expression using his fingers to tilt his eyes after scoring a penalty in the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup quarter-final match against Portugal. The act was supposedly racist and offended numerous football fans in the host nation, the Korean Republic.
• He was named in Uruguay's provisional 26-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia in May 2018.
• Upon returning from loan, he impressed new manager Julen Lopetegui during the pre-season and was definitively assigned to the first team. 
• Valverde scored his first La Liga goal in a 4-0 win against SD Eibar on 9th November 2019.
• He tackled Alvaro Morata during Real Madrid's Supercopa game against Atletico Madrid on 12th January 2020, committing a professional foul and stopping play with Morata clean through on goal. 
• Federico was sent off, but his actions stopped what was an inevitable goal and earned him the Man of the Match award and widespread praise.
• As well, he scored Real Madrid's first goal of the 2020-2021 season away to Betis in La Liga in an eventual 3-2 win and was selected as the 'King of The Match' on 27th September.
• Later he extended his contract until 2027 on 24th August 2021 and scored Real Madrid's third goal in a 3-2 win over Barcelona in extra time of the Supercopa de Espana semifinal on 12th January 2022, a tournament which Madrid eventually went on to win.
• Valverde assisted Vinicius Junior to score the winning goal in a 1-0 win over Liverpool in the Champions League final to clinch Real Madrid their record 14th UEFA Champions League title on 28th May 2022.
• Eventually, he scored his first Champions League goal in a 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig on 14th September 2022.

International career

• Fede Valverde was awarded the Silver Ball at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup as Uruguay finished fourth in the tournament.
• In August 2017, he was called up to the full side for the first time and debuted with the Uruguay national football team on 5th September 2017.
• He scored his first international goal with the senior team in a match against Paraguay as well and he was named in Uruguay's provisional 26-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but he was left out of the final 23-man squad.
• He was included by manager Oscar Tabarez in the final 23-man Uruguay squad for the 2019 Copa America in Brazil and was selected to the squad at the 2021 Copa America in June 2021.

Awards and Honours

Penarol

• Primera Division: 2015-2016 

Real Madrid

• La Liga: 2019-2020, 2021-2022 
• Supercopa de Espana: 2019-2020, 2021-2022 
• UEFA Champions League: 2021-2022 
• UEFA Super Cup: 2022 
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2018 

Individual

• FIFA U-20 World Cup Silver Ball: 2017 
• UEFA La Liga Revelation Team of the Year: 2019-2020 
• La Liga Player of the Month: September 2022

Federico Valverde's Wife and Children

Valverde and his partner met online. He is in a romantic relationship with Argentinian journalist and presenter, Mina Bonino. They have two sons Benicio (born in 2020) and Bautista (born in 2023).

Federico Valverde's Net Worth and Salary

Federico Valverde has a net worth of 20 million euros as of 2022 whereas his current annual salary is €4 million net (€8.3 million gross). He has established an identity already and he's also superbly ambitious and continues to work even harder to reach his set objectives. His current market value is $88.00m as of 23rd September 2022 which is also his highest market value till now. In addition, his major source of income is his football career.

Federico Valverde Measurements

Federico Valverde is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall and his body weighs around 73 kg (160 lbs). He has good-looking dark brown hair and eyes color. He has emerged as another teen sensation in the scene. Besides, his body build type is athletic.