DANI OLMO: FIRST STEPS
Dani Olmo was born in 1998 and grew up dreaming to be a player, thanks to his passion and to his father Miguel, a former footballer. Attacking midfielder, deep lying forward, inside forward, wide midfielder, Dani Olmo is a flexible and highly talented player.
The ball is his best friend and this shows on the pitch. He began to amaze in the Espanyol youth team and reached in 2007 one of the most coveted team at youth level: Barça’s Cantera, where he spent 7 years
CROATIA CALLING
But the great step into professional football came in 2014, when Dani chose Dinamo Zagreb: “They took me for a fool. They verbally attacked me, they said I was going to ruin my son's career. […] Today they say that we were brave and we made the best decision ", are his father’s words.Reached Croatia at the age of 16, he became "Dani Olmic" and conquered the Balkans with great plays, making 34 goals and drawing the attention of half of Europe.
DANI AND LEIPZIG
In 2020 Dani joined RB Leipzig in which he contributed to achieve great results. With Leipzig Dani is playing like a veteran and he has won a Pokal cup in 2022 and reached a 2nd place and a 4th place on the bundesliga table. The rest... is current history, with many pages still to be written and Dani is considered today a worldwide all-round talent.
PLAYER PROFILE
Name: Dani Olmo
Nationality: Spanish
Club: RB Leipzig
Birthday: 07.05.1998
Position: Midfielder
Instagram:
@daniolmo7
LA ROJA
Disputed between Spain and Croatia, Dani made its debut in the U-21 Red Furies’ team against Albania on October the 11th, 2018. During the European Championship of 2019 he scored 3 goals, getting the trophy by beating Germany in the final match. Thanks to these goals, he was elected as "best right winger" in the tournament top 11. After a few months Robert Moreno, the Coach of the Senior National Team decided to make his debut in the national major in November the 15th 2019 against Malta and Dani immediately rewarded him with a goal. Dani. In 2021 Olmo has shown all his talent to the world. He played a great Europeo, until the semifinal against Italy, and amazing Olympics Games until the final against Brazil. Moreover he strongly contributed to bring La Roja to the next World Cup in Qatar. In Qatar Dani scored the 100th goal of Seleccion in a World Cup against Costa Rica and La Roja, with Dani always on the pitch, reached the Round Of 16.
