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Alfredo Di Stéfano
Alfredo Di Stéfano
Spain
4 July 1926
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Alfredo Di Stéfano was an Argentine and naturalised Spanish professional footballer and manager who played as a forward, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the greatest Real Madrid player ever. Nicknamed \"Saeta Rubia\" (\"Blond Arrow\"), he is best known for his achievements with the club, where he was instrumental in the club's domination of the European Cup and La Liga during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Francisco Gento and José María Zárraga, he was one of only three players to play a part in all five European Cup victories, scoring goals in each of the five finals. Di Stéfano played international football mostly for Spain after moving to Madrid and becoming a naturalised citizen, but he also played for Argentina.

Di Stéfano began his career at Argentina's River Plate aged 17, in 1943. For the 1946 season, he was loaned to Huracán, but he returned to River in 1947. He won Copa America in 1947 with Argentina. Due to a footballers' strike in Argentina in 1949, Di Stéfano went to play for Millonarios of Bogotá in the Colombian league. He won six league titles during the first 12 years of his career in Argentina and Colombia. Following his signing by Real Madrid, he was an integral part of one of the most successful teams of all time. He scored 216 league goals in 282 games for Real (then a club record, since surpassed by Raúl, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema), striking up a successful partnership with Ferenc Puskás. Di Stéfano's 49 goals in 58 matches was the all-time highest tally in the European Cup. The record has since been surpassed by several players, including the aforementioned Real Madrid trio. Di Stéfano scored in five consecutive European Cup finals for Real Madrid between 1956 and 1960, including a hat-trick in the last. Perhaps the highlight of his time with the club was their 7–3 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1960 final at Hampden Park, a game many consider to be the finest exhibition of club football ever witnessed in Europe. He moved to Espanyol in 1964 and played there until retiring at the age of 40.

Di Stéfano was awarded the Ballon d'Or for the European Footballer of the Year in 1957 and 1959. He is currently the seventh highest scorer in the history of Spain's top division, and Real Madrid's fourth highest league goalscorer of all time. He is Madrid's leading goalscorer in the history of El Clásico, alongside Cristiano Ronaldo. In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Spain by the Royal Spanish Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. He was voted fourth, behind Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Johan Cruyff, in a vote organized by France Football magazine which consulted their former Ballon d'Or winners to elect the Football Player of the Century. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players (in September 2009, he said Di Stéfano was the best player \"ever\"). In 2008 Di Stéfano was honoured by both UEFA and Real Madrid with a special Presidents' award issued by FIFA at a ceremony in Madrid, where a statue was also unveiled. Then UEFA President Michel Platini called Di Stéfano \"a great amongst the greats\" while contemporaries Eusébio and Just Fontaine suggested that he was \"the most complete footballer in the history of the game\".

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: Di Stefano with Real Madrid in 1959
⚽ Personal information:
Full name: Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé
Date of birth: (1926-07-04)4 July 1926
Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death: 7 July 2014(2014-07-07) (aged 88)
Place of death: Madrid, Spain
Height: 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s): Forwardmidfielder
⚽ Youth career:
1940–1943: Unión Progresista
1944–1945: River Plate
⚽ Senior career*:
Years: Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1949: River Plate 66 (49)
1945–1946: → Huracán (loan) 25 (10)
1949–1953: Millonarios 101 (90)
1953–1964: Real Madrid 282 (216)
1964–1966: Espanyol 47 (11)
Total: 521 (376)
⚽ International career:
1947: Argentina 6 (6)
1951: Colombia 4 (0)
1957–1961: Spain 31 (23)
⚽ Managerial career:
1967–1968: Elche
1969–1970: Boca Juniors
1970–1974: Valencia
1974: Sporting CP
1975–1976: Rayo Vallecano
1976–1977: Castellón
1979–1980: Valencia
1981–1982: River Plate
1982–1984: Real Madrid
1985: Boca Juniors
1986–1988: Valencia
1990–1991: Real Madrid

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