{"id":811042,"date":"2026-07-19T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:49:12","slug":"who-is-rodris-girlfriend-laura-iglesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811042\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Rodri\u2019s Girlfriend Laura Iglesias?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rodrigo Hern\u00e1ndez Cascante, better known as Rodri, is one of Spain\u2019s biggest stars at the 2026 World Cup, not to mention, the team\u2019s captain. By his side for many years has been his girlfriend, Laura Iglesias.<\/p>\n

Like Rodri, Laura has no social media, so there\u2019s little information on her online. However, it is confirmed that the two met while attending Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, in eastern Spain. \u201cFor me, it was the best time of my life. Spending time with young people the same as as you. Studying and going out sometimes. It was good… a great time,\u201d he said<\/a> in 2022. \u201cIt was funny because I met her [Laura] in the student residence and she was starting also on medicine.\u201d Laura is two years younger than Rodri.<\/p>\n

As his career began taking off, she supported him. \u201cA girl who studied so hard, who was doing Medicine… that helped me a lot to take away some of the pressure of what I was facing every weekend\u2014playing in the First Division, beginning to become important, starting to play for Spain,\u201d Rodi said<\/a> (translated from Spanish). \u201cShe has helped me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BallonAdam Davy – PA Images\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The couple in 2024.<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cShe was like \u2018what is this guy doing here?\u2019 And I met her when I was in the U21 side of Villarreal and it was kind of like this when I start moving forward in professional football, she was a bit shy in this sense because she didn\u2019t want the people to speak. You know how it\u2019s like, there was like 400 students in the same [place].\u201d<\/p>\n

When he won the Ballon D\u2019Or in 2024, he said<\/a>, \u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank the most important person in the world for me\u2014my girlfriend Laura. Today marks eight years since we met\u2014it\u2019s our anniversary [November 23]. Without you, this journey would not have been the same, so thank you very much.\u201d
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\"ManchesterJames Gill – Danehouse\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Iglesias during a Premier League match between Manchester City FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Etihad Stadium on November 23, 2024.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if Laura has continued to pursue a career in medicine since they graduated, but some papers report she is training to become a surgeon. She rarely attends his matches in person; in a video for Manchester City, Rodri said<\/a>, \u201cWhen I get to score, I always have a video of Laura celebrating the goal at home and I always watch it in a locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read Rodrigo Hern\u00e1ndez Cascante, better known as Rodri, is one of Spain\u2019s biggest stars at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,356505,20253,385999,430,134,308081,2387,257356,385998,366213,277733],"class_list":["post-811042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-world-cup-2026","tag-content-type-news-explainer","tag-contentid-447f79a3-343b-4074-803b-98fdc372ec51","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-meet-rodris-girlfriend-laura-iglesias","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-sporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}