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Who is Dani Ceballos? The new Real Madrid starlet who called for 'Catalan dogs' to be bombed

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The star of the Euro Under-21 finals has just completed his €18m move to the capital but he is already one of the most controversial players in Spain

Prodigiously gifted Spain midfielder Dani Ceballos has been attracting attention for some time now, just not always for the right reasons.

When both Barcelona and Athletic Club supporters whistled the Spanish national anthem before the 2015 Copa del Rey final at Camp Nou, the Andalusian expressed his hope that a bomb be dropped "on the stands and kill those Catalan and Basque dogs".

He had previous too, having labelled Cesc Fabregas and Gerard Pique "shameless" for celebrating Spain's Euro 2012 success with the Semeyra flag before then adding: "Get out of the country, Catalans!