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Raúl González Blanco

"Raul Gonzalez" redirects here. For other uses, see Raúl González (disambiguation).

Raul

Name Raul Gonzalez Blanco

Nickname "The Lord of the Rings", 1 eternal captain, the angel of Madrid ", Spain 2 7, 3 Mr. Raul, 4 Mr. Champions5

Born June 27, 1977 (35 years)

Madrid, Spain

Nationality

Current club Al-Sadd

Position Forward

Height 1.806 meters

International Caps 102

447 total goals 8 (Spanish team)

324 (C. F. Real Madrid)

40 (Schalke 04)

11 (Al-Sadd Sports Club)

Year of debut 1994

Real Madrid debut Club C. F.

Raúl González Blanco (Madrid, June 27, 1977), better known as Raúl, is a Spanish footballer. Play as a striker in the team catarí of Al-Sadd Sports Club, where he arrived in May 2012.

Previously, he was part of the squad of Real Madrid CF for 16 years, specifically between 1994 and 2010, and the German team Schalke 04, between 2010 and 2012.9 10

Thanks to his long and successful career, is considered one of the three most important players in the history of Real Madrid with Alfredo Di Stefano and Zinedine scorers Zidane.11 Your records have made him a living legend Madrid team in particular and European football in general.12 In addition, peers, rivals and fans, have considered how best Spanish football player of the historia.13 14 15

Raul is the active leading scorer in the First Division Spanish, 16 and the third leading scorer in the Spanish League after Zarra and Hugo Sánchez.17 addition, Spanish is the player with the most goals in the history of European tournaments with First Division his 228 goals in the Spanish League and 28 goals in the Bundesliga, totaling 256 and surpassing Telmo Zarra who scored 252. It is also the top scorer in the history of official competitions UEFA club with 77 goals today. Beat Italian Filippo Inzaghi and Gerd Müller.18 19 20 In addition, with 144 games played, is the most capped player in the history of the European Cup by the Welsh Ryan Giggs and ahead of Italian Paolo Maldini, who played 139 encuentros21 and the top scorer in the history of the European Cup with 71 goals ahead of Dutchman Ruud Van Nistelrooy, now retired, who came to achieve 56 goles.22

It was named Best striker in the world by the IFFHS in the year 199923. Only player in history who won the Forward of the Year award in Europe by UEFA on three occasions during the seasons 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002.24 was second in the Golden Ball 200125 and third in the FIFA World Player 2001. In 2004 it was included in the FIFA 100 list of the best players XX26 century and the UEFA list of the 50 best European players in the period 1954-2004.27 It was also included on three occasions in the best World XI offered by the three-time UEFA Team of the Year in the European Sports Magazine.28 29

He holds the record for most games played in the history of Real Madrid with 741, besides being the leading scorer from 1902 to present with 324 goals ahead of Alfredo Di Stefano, who won 307.30 began his career in the lower divisions of Athletic Madrid, but after the dissolution of its subsidiaries was hired by Real Madrid CF, the team which debuted in professional football in 1994. With the white box won six league championships, four Super Cups Spain, three European Cups, one European Super Cup and two Intercontinental Cups. These 16 titles with Real Madrid made him become the 4th most successful player in the history of the club, after Gento (23), Sanchis (21), Chendo (18) and ahead of Alfredo Di Stefano (15) .31 In addition , won the German Cup in his first year at Schalke 04, Germany Super Cup at the start of their second season in the German Club and the Qatar League in his first season in Asian football. Therefore, to date has achieved 19 titles at club level, making it one of the most successful players in the history of world football.

It was nominated for the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Sports 2011, ranking second among nineteen aspirants. The November 18, 2011 the governing body of European football, UEFA, issued a European survey that placed Raul as the fifth best player in the history of the Champions League along with Zinedine Zidane, Lionel Messi, Paolo Maldini and Xavi Hernandez, from a list of fifty candidatos.32

The February 19, 2012 reached the figure of 400 official goals in the Bundesliga match against VfL Wolfsburg, bringing his career at Real Madrid (323 goals), Schalke 04 (until that date 33 goals) and absolute Selection (44 goals ) .33

In 2012, is in the seventh position of the top scorers of Primera División active globally with 260 goals (228 in the First Division in Spain, 28 in the Bundesliga and 4 in the League of Qatar), now surpassed by Sergio Ibarra (261) .34

The April 27, 2013 amounted to 1,000 professional games in Cup semifinal Crown Prince of Qatar between Al Sadd (your club by then) and Al-Rayyan.35

With Spain football team participated in three editions of the World Cup and two European Championships. He was captain from 2002-2006.

Competición	Partidos	Goles	Promedio	Títulos
Primera División de España	550	228	0,41	6
Segunda división de España	1	0	0	0
Segunda división B de España	8	16	2	0
Bundesliga	66	28	0,42	0
Liga de fútbol de Catar	22	9	0,41	1
Copa del Rey	37	18	0,49	0
Copa de Alemania	7	3	0,43	1
Copa Sheikh Jassem	3	2	0,67	0
Copa de las Estrellas de Qatar	4	0	0	0
Copa del Emir	3	1	0,33	0
Copa Príncipe de la Corona	2	0	0	0
Supercopa de España	12	7	0,58	4
Supercopa de Alemania	2	0	0	1
Champions League	144	71	0,49	3
Europa League	11	4	0,36	0
Supercopa de Europa	3	1	0,33	1
Mundial de Clubes	4	2	0,5	0
Copa Intercontinental	3	1	0,33	2
Juegos Olímpicos	4	2	0,5	0
Eliminatorias Mundial	29	8	0,28
Mundial de fútbol	11	5	0,45	0
Clasificación Eurocopa	20	18	0,9
Eurocopa	7	1	0,14	0
Amistosos Selección Absoluta	35	12	0,34
Selección Sub-18	2	4	0,5
Mundial Sub-20	5	3	0,6	0
Clasificación Eurocopa Sub-21	5	5	1
Eurocopa Sub-21	4	3	0,75	0
TOTAL147	1004