Costa Rican association football musician

Navas and the second or maternal family name is Gamboa. In this spanish name, the first gear or agnate surname isand the moment or parental syndicate list is Keilor Antonio Navas Gamboa ( digest 15 December 1986 ), known as Keylor Navas, is a rib Rican master football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Costa Rica national team.

Navas started his youth career at Saprissa in his home nation, where he won six Liga FPD titles and the CONCACAF Champions League, he subsequently moved to Spanish club Albacete in 2010, and then to Levante in La Liga the following class, where he won the LFP Award for Best Goalkeeper in his final season with the latter golf club. Navas late joined Real Madrid in 2014 for €10 million. He won a entire of twelve titles with Real Madrid, [ 4 ] including one La Liga title and three consecutive UEFA Champions League titles as the first choice goalkeeper. [ 5 ] In 2019, he was signed by french club Paris Saint-Germain. Navas has played over 90 times for Costa Rica since making his debut in 2008. He has represented the nation at two CONCACAF Gold Cups and the 2014 and 2018 editions of the FIFA World Cup. He was a member of the Costa Rica national team that reached the semi-finals of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup, in which he was named best goalkeeper. His impressive performances besides helped the team reach the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup. [ 6 ] much considered one of the world ‘s best goalkeepers, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] the best in the history of CONCACAF, [ 9 ] and one of the best in the history of Latin America, [ 10 ] Navas has besides won numerous individual awards. He was named CONCACAF Men ‘s Goalkeeper of the year for three consecutive years between 2016 and 2018. He was besides named the best male CONCACAF Player of the Decade 2011–2020 by the IFFHS. [ 11 ] His performances in the 2017–18 season earned him the 2017–18 UEFA Club Football Award for best UEFA goalkeeper, [ 12 ] and besides saw him named in the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season of 2018. [ 13 ]

Club career [edit ]

Saprissa [edit ]

Born in San Isidro de El General, Navas made his professional debut with Deportivo Saprissa on 6 November 2005, in a Primera league match against Asociación Deportiva Carmelita. [ 14 ] He was the first-choice custodian in his two final examination seasons with the club, [ citation needed ] winning six national championships and the 2005 CONCACAF Champions ‘ Cup. [ 15 ] Navas was besides part of the Saprissa team that finished in 3rd place at the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship. [ 16 ]

Albacete [edit ]

In July 2010, Navas signed with Albacete Balompié of the Segunda División in Spain precisely 20 years after countryman Luis Conejo, who occupied the same place. [ 17 ] He played in 36 games out of 42 during his inaugural season, but his team suffered relegation after finishing in end position .

Levante [edit ]

Navas playing for Levante in 2013 In the 2011–12 campaign, Navas reached La Liga, being loaned to Levante UD for a year. [ 18 ] He made his debut in the competition on 13 May 2012 in the last round of golf, playing in a 3–0 home win against Athletic Bilbao that confirmed the club ‘s first ever reservation for the UEFA Europa League, [ 19 ] and joined the Valencian club on a three-year condense in July of that year. [ 20 ] Despite initially being back-up to Gustavo Munúa, [ 21 ] Navas was the first-choice goalkeeper for Levante in the 2013–14 season, and was nominated as the league ‘s best goalkeeper aboard Thibaut Courtois of Atlético Madrid and Willy Caballero of Málaga CF, [ 22 ] going on to win the respect. [ 23 ] In March 2014, he was La Liga Player of the Month, the first goalkeeper to win the award. [ 24 ] He finished the temper as the goalkeeper with the most saves ( 267 ) in La Liga, [ 25 ] finishing one-fourth in the Zamora Trophy conceding 39 goals in 36 games despite playing for a ‘lower rank ‘ team. [ 26 ]

veridical Madrid [edit ]

Navas giving directions to Real Madrid ‘s defense mechanism .
On 3 August 2014, Real Madrid triggered Navas ‘ €10 million buyout clause, [ 27 ] and he signed a six-year condense with the cabaret. [ 28 ] His first competitive call-up was on 12 August, sitting on the bench as Iker Casillas played in the 2014 UEFA Super Cup, which Real Madrid won 2–0 against sevilla at the Cardiff City Stadium. [ 29 ] Navas was given his debut for the club on 23 September, in a 5–1 victory over Elche at the Santiago Bernabéu. [ 30 ] He was given his Champions League debut on 26 November, keeping a fairly tabloid in a 0–1 away win against swiss side FC Basel. [ 31 ] On 20 December, he was on the bench as his team won the Club World Cup, defeating Club Atlético San Lorenzo in the final in Morocco. [ 32 ] His performances for Levante in the previous La Liga season and Costa Rica in the 2014 World Cup led him win Player of the year at the 2014 CONCACAF Awards, [ 33 ] earning the double distinction of the first costa Rican and goalkeeper to do therefore .
Navas with Real Madrid in 2016 With the deviation of Casillas from Real Madrid, Navas inherited his number 1 shirt for the 2015–16 La Liga season. [ 34 ] Madrid agreed to transfer Navas to Manchester United in part-exchange for David de Gea on 31 August 2015, but the conduct collapsed because the documents were not submitted to FIFA before the spanish transfer deadline. [ 35 ] Madrid thrashed Real Betis in their home undoer by a score of 5–0 with a all right operation from Navas making respective saves deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as stopping a punishment. [ 36 ] He was a regular starter when the team won the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League. Navas earned the double distinction of becoming the first base rib Rican and central American to always play in, and win, the men ‘s Champions League concluding. [ 37 ] He set a raw record for substantial Madrid in the UEFA Champions League by not conceding a individual goal in his first 8 appearances ; 6 of these were in the 2015–16 season. He besides usurped Edwin vanguard five hundred Sar to reach the second blemish in fairly sheets behind Jens Lehmann in the all-time list. He was the most coherent keeper in the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League season conceding only 3 goals in 12 appearances, keeping 9 houseclean sheets. [ 38 ]
He was the starting goalkeeper when Madrid won the 2016–17 La Liga [ 39 ] [ 40 ] and the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League. [ 41 ] On 29 January 2017 after the 3–0 acquire at home to Real Sociedad in La Liga, Navas became the first gear actor from Costa Rica to reach 100 La Liga appearances. [ 42 ] His performances during the double trophy winning temper led him to win the Player of the year for the second time at the 2017 CONCACAF Awards. [ 43 ]
Navas made his hundredth appearance for Madrid during the 2–0 second branch home acquire over Barcelona. [ 44 ] During the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, he started football team games, as Madrid won their third base straight and 13th overall Champions League claim beating Liverpool 3–1 in the concluding. [ 45 ] The succeed against Liverpool saw Navas claim his 100th victory for Madrid in lone 141 appearances. [ 46 ] Navas produced some fine performances in the Champions League including a superb display against Bayern Munich in their semi-final second leg clang which helped Real Madrid qualify to the final. He made 8 saves during the game, his highest count in a Champions League knock-out game. [ 47 ] Bayern Munich director Jupp Heynckes praised Navas after the game as the cause for Real Madrid ‘s qualification. [ 48 ]
Navas ’ one-fifth season at Real Madrid began with the much-anticipated arrival of Thibaut Courtois [ 49 ] to compete for the number 1 goalkeeping topographic point. Despite Courtois ’ arrival, Navas was selected to play in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup [ 50 ] which resulted in a 2–4 loss to city rivals Atlético Madrid. [ 51 ] Navas then went on to start the opening game of La Liga, [ 52 ] well keeping his first clean sheet of the temper with a 2–0 winnings over Getafe CF. [ 53 ] His performances in the last Champions League campaign led him to be voted as the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League Goalkeeper of the Season [ 54 ] beating off contest from then Roma goalkeeper Alisson Becker and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. On 9 January 2019 Navas made his hundred-and-fiftieth appearance in all competitions for Madrid in their 3–0 home gain against Leganés in the Copa del Rey. [ 55 ] On 6 April 2019 Navas became the first ever non-Spanish goalkeeper to reach 100 La Liga appearances for actual Madrid. [ 56 ]

Paris Saint-Germain [edit ]

Navas joined Paris Saint-Germain on a four-year contract on 2 September 2019, [ 57 ] becoming the first costa Rican to play for the men ‘s team. [ 58 ] He made his Ligue 1 introduction 12 days belated, keeping a clean sheet in a 1–0 home gain against RC Strasbourg. [ 59 ] On 24 July 2020, Navas won his twentieth career clubhouse trophy after beating Saint-Étienne in the Coupe de France final. [ 60 ] On 31 July, he kept a clean sheet and saved a point kick in the resulting shoot-out as PSG defeated Lyon 6–5 on penalties in the 2020 Coupe de la Ligue Final. [ 61 ] That win marked Navas ‘ 15th trophy in Europe, matching Rafael Márquez ‘s record for a CONCACAF player. [ 62 ] On 23 August 2020, Navas started his 4th Champions League final, losing to Bayern Munich 1–0. [ 63 ] He finished the European campaign with 5 clean sheets, the second most after Manuel Neuer despite having played 191 minutes less. [ 64 ]
Navas started his second season with the parisian club as one of the 7 baseball club players to test incontrovertible for COVID-19. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] He missed the clubs first two games due to the quarantine necessity. [ 67 ] [ 68 ] On 16 September 2020, Navas played his first plot of the season acquire and keeping a cleanse plane against Metz. [ 69 ] On 17 September, UEFA announced Navas, for the irregular time, as a campaigner for the 2019–20 Champions League Goalkeeper of the Season award. [ 70 ] On 20 September, Navas starred in PSG ‘s 3–0 away win to Nice with a irregular straight clean sheet arsenic well as respective excellent saves. [ 71 ] On 13 January 2021, Navas won the 2020 Trophée des Champions. With that winnings, he became the CONCACAF actor with the most european trophies, 16, surpassing early Rafael Márquez. [ 72 ] On 20 April 2021, Navas was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Month for March, making him the beginning CONCACAF musician to win the award. [ 73 ] Navas signed a shrink with PSG until 2024 on 26 April 2021. [ 74 ]
ahead of the 2021–22 season, PSG signed italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. This raised eyebrows over electric potential competition between Navas and his italian counterpart. [ 75 ]

International career [edit ]

Youth career and early senior career [edit ]

Navas was share of the Costa Rica national team that played in the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship held in Finland. He was called up for the elder national team for the first time in August 2006, to play a friendly tournament in Europe against Austria and Switzerland. He was a member of the team that won a tan decoration at the 2006 central american and caribbean Games. Navas gained his debut aged cap on 11 October 2008, in a 4–1 away victory over Suriname in the third round of qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which qualified the team into the next stage. [ 76 ] Four days late at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, he kept his first external blank sheet in a 2–0 victory over Haiti. [ 77 ] The team finally reached the intercontinental play-offs for the tournament, losing narrowly to Uruguay. [ 78 ] Navas was besides a penis of the Costa Rica squad that finished runner-up in the 2009 UNCAF Nations Cup. [ 79 ] Navas appeared with Los Ticos in two CONCACAF Gold Cup competitions, being named the best goalkeeper in the 2009 version as he helped his area reach the semi-finals. [ 80 ] He returned to help them to the quarter-finals two years by and by, but missed the 2013 tournament through injury, suffering the same fortune again in 2015. [ 81 ]

2014 World Cup [edit ]

Navas made his debut in the FIFA World Cup on 14 June 2014, appearing in a 3–1 group stage winnings against Uruguay in Fortaleza, [ 82 ] and started the other two group games only conceding a one finish as Costa Rica qualified for the hard stages as group winners [ 83 ] for the first time. On 29 June, in the round of 16 match against Greece, Navas was named man of the meet after respective saves in normal meter and a save from Theofanis Gekas ‘ kick during the punishment gunfight, which led to Costa Rica reaching the quarter-finals for the inaugural time always. [ 84 ] He ended the tournament with three clean sheets from five matches, as the state was knocked out by the Netherlands after a penalty gunfight, [ 85 ] where he was named man of the match for the one-third prison term, the merely goalkeeper to do sol. [ 86 ] He was besides one of three nominees for the Golden Glove Award, losing out to Manuel Neuer of Germany. [ 87 ]

2018 FIFA World Cup [edit ]

In May 2018, Navas was named in the final examination team for the 2018 World Cup. [ 88 ] He started all three group games making 10 saves and conceding five goals. [ 89 ]

style of bid [edit ]

much rated by several pundits as one of the best goalkeepers in the universe, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and considered by some in the sport as the best in the history of CONCACAF, [ 9 ] Navas is an energetic keeper, who is chiefly known for his agility, speed, and athleticism in goal, vitamin a well as his flying reflexes and excellent shot-stopping ability, which enables him to compensate for his relative miss of stature. He has besides drawn praise in the media for his decisive performances in crucial matches, and his preference for producing unmanageable and all-important saves for his team in keystone moments. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] [ 92 ] [ 93 ] In 2017, former goalkeeper Manuel Almunia praised Navas, describing him as “ the prototype mannequin ” goalkeeper, besides adding : “ He ‘s spectacular between the posts, he ‘s weather, nice and very agile. He maintains his concentration and he ‘s besides intelligent … For me he deserves all the deference he gets for what he ‘s done. ” [ 94 ] In 2020, Navas cited compatriot Lester Morgan as his goalkeeping idol. [ 95 ]

personal liveliness [edit ]

Keylor Navas was raised in a inadequate family in San Isidro de el General. He is a dear Christian. He spoke about his religion saying, “ God for me comes first. Before every game I kneel, I open my arms and pray … My favorite passage of the Bible is Galatians 1:10 which says : “ If I were distillery trying to please homo, I would not be a handmaid of Christ. ” [ 96 ] [ 97 ] On 3 December 2014, Navas announced that he had obtained spanish citizenship. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] A documentary movie, Hombre de Fe ( Man of Faith ), based on the life of Navas was released on 28 December 2017. [ 100 ]

career statistics [edit ]

cabaret [edit ]

As of match played 6 November 2021[101][102]

International [edit ]

As of match played 16 November 2021[103]
Costa Rica
Year Apps Goals
2008 2 0
2009 14 0
2010 5 0
2011 11 0
2012 10 0
2013 8 0
2014 10 0
2015 4 0
2016 5 0
2017 7 0
2018 10 0
2019 5 0
2020 1 0
2021 8 0
Total 100 0

Honours [edit ]

Navas making a keep open for real Madrid in 2015 Saprissa
Real Madrid
Paris Saint-Germain
Costa Rica
Individual

References [edit ]