David Alaba is already a Real Madrid player. The white club has announced the incorporation of the versatile Austrian defender, who arrives at zero cost after ending his relationship with ‘his’ Bayern Munich and signs for 5 seasons.
Alaba is Madrid's first signing for the 2021-22 season and will become the second Austrian to wear the white team shirt.
The first Austrian player to do so was Philipp Lienhart, a defender who played for Castilla between 2014 and 2017 before joining Freiburg, first on loan and then transferred, a club he currently defends.
Lienhart only played one game with the merengue first team, the remembered Cádiz-Madrid Copa in October 2015 that ended with a bitter victory for the Whites (1-3), as the Whites would be disqualified in the offices due to Denis's improper alignment Cheryshev.
As a curious fact, Alaba will be the second Austrian to play for Real Madrid, but the third born in Austria. Mateo Kovacic, a Croatian midfielder who now plays for Chelsea, was born in the city of Linz and took his first steps in the world of football in the youth ranks of LASK Linz. Then with his parents, Bosnian-Croatian by origin, he moved to Zagreb and began his sports career at Dinamo Zagreb.