Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Daniel Olmo Carvajal | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 7 May 1998|||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Terrassa, Spain | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | RB Leipzig | |||||||||||||||
Number | 25 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2006–2007 | Espanyol | |||||||||||||||
2007–2014 | Barcelona | |||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Dinamo Zagreb | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2015–2017 | Dinamo Zagreb II | 25 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2015–2020 | Dinamo Zagreb | 80 | (20) | |||||||||||||
2020– | RB Leipzig | 44 | (8) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2014 | Spain U16 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2015 | Spain U17 | 9 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2016 | Spain U18 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Spain U21 | 14 | (6) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Spain | 16 | (3) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:14, 13 May 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC) |
Daniel "Dani" Olmo Carvajal (born 7 May 1998) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Spain national team. He can play as either an attacking midfielder or a winger.[2]
Born in Terrassa, Barcelona, Catalonia, Olmo arrived in FC Barcelona's youth academy aged nine, from neighbours RCD Espanyol.[1][3]
In a surprise move, Olmo joined Dinamo Zagreb on 31 July 2014, aged 16.[4] He made his first team debut against Lokomotiva Zagreb on 7 February 2015.[5] On 22 August 2016, Olmo signed a new four-year contract with Dinamo Zagreb.[6]
On 20 September 2018, he provided Izet Hajrović with an assist for the third goal and scored the fourth in the Europa League 4–1 victory over Fenerbahçe.[7] On 17 December, Olmo was named the best player of Prva HNL for 2018.[8] In the same month, he finished 11th in Tuttosport's Golden Boy award, ahead of the likes of Kylian Mbappé and Josip Brekalo.[9] On 14 February 2019, he scored the only goal in a Europa League round of 32 game against Viktoria Plzeň, that ended in a 2–1 loss.[10] On 3 June, he was named the best player and best young player of the 2018–19 Prva HNL season.[11]
On 18 September 2019, he made his Champions League debut in a 4–0 home win over Atalanta.[12] He scored his first goal in the competition on 22 October in a 2–2 away draw with Shakhtar Donetsk.[13] He scored the only Dinamo's goal in a 1–4 home defeat to Manchester City on 11 December, as Dinamo finished at the bottom of the group.[14][15]
On 25 January 2020, Olmo moved to Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, signing a four-year contract.[16][17]
He made his debut on 1 February 2020, in a 2–2 draw with Borussia Mönchengladbach coming on for Tyler Adams in 69th minute.[18] Three days later he scored the only goal in a 3–1 DFB-Pokal defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt, having come on for Amadou Haidara in 46th minute.[19] He earned his first start for the club on 9 February, in a game against Bayern Munich that ended as a goalless draw, coming off for Patrik Schick in 69th minute.[20] On 12 June, he scored both goals in a 2–0 victory over 1899 Hoffenheim.[21] On 13 August, he scored the opening goal in a 2–1 victory over Atlético Madrid at Estádio José Alvalade, as Leipzig progressed to the Champions League semi-final for the first time in the history of the club.[22][23]
Olmo was part of the Spanish squad at the 2015 European Under-17 Championship in Bulgaria; he netted in the penalty shoot-out as they were eliminated by Germany in the quarter-finals, but then had his attempt saved by Will Huffer as Spain lost to England by the same means in a play-off for that year's World Cup for the category.[24] Towards the end of 2017, Dinamo Zagreb director Tomislav Svetina said that the club was doing all it could to get the teenager Croatian citizenship. Olmo himself showed a desire to switch to Croatia at the international level.[25] However, in October 2018, he made his debut for the Spanish under-21 side.
Olmo was part of the Spanish squad that won 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Italy and San Marino, playing four matches, assisting one goal and scoring three, including one in the final which caused him to be named Man of the Match.[26][27][28]
Olmo earned his first senior team call-up in November 2019, for Euro 2020 qualifiers against Malta and Romania, after Spain had already qualified for the tournament.[29] He debuted on 15 November as a substitute for Álvaro Morata in the 66th minute and scored three minutes later in the 7–0 home victory over Malta.[30] Fellow debutant Pau Torres also scored, making it the first time that two Spaniards scored on their first cap in 30 years.[31]
On 24 May 2021, Olmo was included in Luis Enrique's 24-man squad for the UEFA Euro 2020.[32] On 28 June, in the extra time of the round of 16 fixture against Croatia, he provided Morata and Mikel Oyarzabal with assists to set the score at 4–3 and 5–3 respectively.[33] On 2 July, after the quarter-final 1–1 draw with Switzerland went to a penalty shoot-out, Olmo successfully converted his as Spain won 3–1.[34] On 6 July, in the semi-final fixture against Italy, he provided Morata with an assist for an equalizer; however, another 1–1 draw went to another shoot-out with Olmo missing his penalty and Italy winning 4–2.[35]
Olmo's father, Miquel, is a retired footballer. A forward, he played professionally for lower-league teams.[36] Dani's older brother Carlos is also a footballer and plays as a defender for Lokomotiva Zagreb. Olmo speaks Croatian fluently.[37]
Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | Continental | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Dinamo Zagreb II | 2015–16 | Druga HNL | 15 | 1 | — | — | 15 | 1 | ||
2016–17 | 10 | 2 | — | — | 10 | 2 | ||||
Total | 25 | 3 | — | — | 25 | 3 | ||||
Dinamo Zagreb | 2014–15 | Prva HNL | 5 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||
2015–16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | |||
2016–17 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 3 | — | 18 | 4 | |||
2017–18 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2[b] | 0 | 33 | 9 | ||
2018–19 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 16[c] | 3 | 44 | 12 | ||
2019–20 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11[d] | 5 | 22 | 8 | ||
Total | 80 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 29 | 8 | 124 | 34 | ||
RB Leipzig | 2019–20 | Bundesliga | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2[d] | 1 | 15 | 5 |
2020–21 | 32 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 8[d] | 1 | 46 | 7 | ||
Total | 44 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 61 | 12 | ||
Career total | 149 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 39 | 10 | 210 | 49 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Spain | 2019 | 1 | 1 |
2020 | 7 | 0 | |
2021 | 8 | 2 | |
Total | 16 | 3 |
No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 15 November 2019 | Ramón de Carranza, Cádiz, Spain | 1 | ![]() |
5–0 | 7–0 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying |
2 | 28 March 2021 | Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi, Georgia | 10 | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
3 | 31 March 2021 | La Cartuja, Seville, Spain | 11 | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 |
Dinamo Zagreb[38]
Spain U21
International
National and regional
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