Dani García (footballer, born 1974)
He received his first-team debut on 5 February 1994, in a 2–0 home win over Deportivo de La Coruña;[1] he played another match in the 1994–95 campaign, while still registered with the reserves.García then spent two years on loan at Real Zaragoza, featuring prominently but without scoring much after which he returned to the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.After a season with only eight appearances he was sold to fellow La Liga club RCD Mallorca, being the Balearic Islands team's top scorer in 1998–99 as they achieved a first-ever qualification to the UEFA Champions League;[2] he also helped them reach the 1999 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, where he scored to tie the game at 1–1 in an eventual 2–1 loss to S.S.[8] After spending the first months of the 2003–04 season unregistered and training on his own, García returned to Zaragoza in January 2004,[9] helping the Aragonese escape the relegation zone and win the 2004 edition of the Copa del Rey, netting against former club Real Madrid in an extra time victory in Barcelona.[14] García made his Spain national team debut against Italy in an 18 November 1998 friendly match in Salerno (2–2),[15] and represented the country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.