David Alaba is an Austrian footballer playing for Bayern Munich. He is only 24 years old, and he is already considered the strongest left-back in the world. David Alaba acts as a left wingback, but at the same time he is a universal - in the national team he plays the position of a central midfielder, and in Bavaria he also performed the functions of a central defender.
Carier start
David Alaba was born on June 24, 1992 in Austria, where at the age of nine he joined the football academy of the local Aspern club. But pretty quickly the talented boy was noticed by the strongest club in the country, the metropolitan “Austria”, which lured the child prodigy to him.
For six years, Alaba was involved in the Austrian system, but in 2008, a 16-year-old guy was discovered by scouts of one of the strongest clubs in the world - Munich Bavaria. He was invited to view, and then transferred to the Academy of the German Grand. Already at the age of 17, he made his debut for an adult team, having entered the field in six matches, but spent most of his time in the double. It was obvious to everyone that a new genius was growing in Bavaria, but so far he was too young to receive enough playing practice in the first team.
After playing three matches, he went on loan to Hoffenheim for six months. There he played 18 matches and scored two goals, showing himself as a true professional, although he was only recently 18. When David Alaba returned from lease, he was immediately put in the foundation - this was the beginning of the formation of one of the strongest extreme defenders of our time .
The game for Bayern
David Alaba, whose photographs immediately appeared on the covers of the world's leading sports magazines, immediately set to work and began to prove that he was worthy to play for one of the strongest clubs at such an early age. In the first season, he appeared on the field in 47 matches, scoring three goals. For five consecutive years, the Austrian invariably turned out to be one of the key players in Bayern - he took a direct part in the fact that Bayern won four consecutive league titles (he also had a fifth in 2010, but then Alaba had only six matches for club), won three German Cups (the fourth also in 2010), and also won the main club tournament in the Champions League in 2012. As a result, 2012 was a triumph, as Bayern made a treble, having won all three major trophies of the season, and Alaba played an important role in this. In total for Bayern, he spent 218 matches, scoring 19 goals.
As for the current season, he remained a key player in the team, so he has already won nine matches and two assists. The player’s contract with the German grand was last extended in March 2016 - now it is designed for another five years and will end only in the summer of 2021.
Team appearances
David Alaba is a football player of an unusually high level. He is only 24 years old, and he already has 52 matches for the Austrian national team, in which he scored 11 goals. The thing is that he debuted for the national team in October 2009, when he was only 17 years old. From that moment, Alaba missed the matches of the national team only because of injuries, and in 2016 he helped his team break out for the first time in a long time in the 2016 European Championship, where the Austrians, unfortunately, could not win a single match - but Alaba scored at the gates of Iceland.