Gonzalo Castro
Gonzalo Castro Randón (born 11 June 1987) is a German footballer who plays for Borussia Dortmund as a midfielder.
Career
Club career
Bayer Leverkusen
Born in Wuppertal to a Spanish father and German mother, he began his career with the Post SV Wuppertal. Other stations during his youth were Viktoria Rott and SV Bayer Wuppertal. In 1999, he moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. At 17, he played his first game for the senior team from Leverkusen in the Bundesliga and in the Champions League. In his first year he played as many as in 13 matches and was from matchday 24 always on the pitch. Although he had played 21 times in the 2005–06 season, he was only a reserve player, especially in the second half of the season and was incidentally also used in the second team. From 2006, Castro then moved from midfield to the back four of Leverkusen and played with solid performances in the starting eleven. Four years in a row he was largely undisputed. Only in the 2010–11 season, he saw his place on the right side of defense disputed by Daniel Schwaab. Since the 2012–13 season, Castro plays again in midfield.