Raúl

Biography

Its youth and its first steps in Atlético

Raúl González is born with Madrid the June 27th 1977 in a very modest family from Colonia Marconi, district poor of Madrid. It made its first shootings in the club of Jesús Gil there Gil, registered by his father who was true “a hincha” “rojiblancos”. It will be besides close to its dream (it had just been twice champions of Spain junior with the Atlético from Madrid), but Gil, the president of the other club of Madrid, in prey has financial problems, removed all its sections juniors. And it is thus the Real Madrid, the neighbor honni, who recovers the rare pearl. A wise choice considering the exceptional career which the young wonder will achieve.

Raùl and the White House

It is very rare that a player passes from the Atlético of Madrid to the Real Madrid - or vice versa being given the competition between the two teams. It began with the Real Madrid in the junior team the September 19th 1992, it made a big first season: in 33 matches, it marked 71 goals, including 58 in championship, and all that in 2506 minutes. An exceptional ratio! Two years later, here it is in first team with the hand of Jorge Valdano, which is with the head of this prestigious team.

The October 29th 1994, at the time of the match against Real Saragossa, the Real Madrid arrived with several important absences. Valdano, which is in full fight for the national title, felt that the match escapes to him and it is at this time that it decided to make enter a 17 year old kid on the lawn (Raúl González Blanco). This evening, Real lost its match (3-2) and Raúl did not mark but carried out a decisive master key for Jose Amavisca. Beyond these details, the club inhabitant of Madrid gained one of the most charismatic players of his history. One week later, it puts its first goal against its old club the Atlético of Madrid of a splendid striking of the left in full attic window at the entry of surface (3-1, 36e), offers a decisive master key to Ivan Zamorano and obtains a penalty. And the Merengues dominated the Colchoneros 4 to 2.

The January 7th 1995 arrives the day of large the clasico (the clasico is the most important match in the history of football according to the experts of the round ball), it faces for the first time FC Barcelona on behalf of the 16th day. The shock turns to the demonstration: 5-0 with a triplet of Ivan Zamorano and 64 minutes of play for Raúl. At the time of the 18th day, the January 22nd 1995 it signs its first doubled vis-a-vis the Celta Vigo (4-0). In Copa del Rey of this same season, it marks a goal with mythical the Andoni Zubizarreta (1-0, 11th) but Real is eliminated by the Valence CF after two defeats 2-1. For its first season, at 17 years only, it thus registers 10 goals in 30 matches (9/28 in Liga; 1/2 out of Cut). It is with a new statute and a place of holder that it will evolve/move from now on.

The Angel of Madrid and its confirmation

The September 30th 1995 (5th day), it registers its first goal in a Clasico (1-0, 12th) and the match finishes on the score of 1-1. Raúl registers then the single goal of the victory at the time of the derby against the Atlético of Madrid (1-0, 9th), the November 18th 1995 at the time of the 13th day. It is offered two doubled vis-a-vis FC Seville (4-1, 15th J.) and to Oviedo (1-2, 24e J.). In League of the champions, the young player registers 6 goals in 8 matches of which its 1st triplet (1-0, 23e; 2-0, 24e; 6-1, 84e) against Ferencváros TC at the time of one 6 to 1 memorable but the Real Madrid is eliminated this year by the Juventus from Turin into 1/4 from finale (1-0/0-2) in spite of the goal that the Angel of Madrid mark to Angelo Peruzzi at the time it match outward journey (1-0, 20th). This season, it registers 26 goals in 52 matches, that is to say an average of a goal all the two matches! He becomes the pet of the Stade Santiago Bernabeu, the mythical stage of the Real Madrid and gains the nickname of El Angel of Madrid ( the Angel of Madrid ). A nickname which corresponds to the player perfectly so much these strokes of genius will have led Real towards the tops.

Characteristics of this player

Player in whom no particular quality is detached, because it does all to perfection. Raul has an exceptional play of head and without any doubt the most precise striking of the world, just like her magic master keys delivered with a surgical precision. He likes to emerge in the back of the defenders, proves to be complete and equipped with a strong temperament of gagnor: goals, decisive master keys and little physical concern (it misses only 3 or 4 matches per season) make a form of comprehensive insurance of it. The year 2006 is thus the exception which confirms the rule (delicate return after a wound to the knee) Its regularity, its vision of incredible play, its perfect technique and its direction of anticipation make an exceptional player of it, right now one of largest of the history.

Rather saved by the wounds up to now, it tested, after its problem with the knee in 2005, of the difficulties of returning on its best level. The malicious gossip said that it had recovered its place thanks to its seniority and with the symbol which it represents in a disabled cloakroom.

The one second youth

In spite of criticisms of any kind and many wounds, Raul finds her genius and all her effectiveness in front of the goal. Under the crook of its new trainer (who is at the same time one of his admirors) Schuster, his meter goals posts from now on eight units after only fourteen days of championship, and it posts two goals in five matches in League of the Champions or it holds the record of registered goals (58).

It is currently Pichichi (Better striker) of Liga, with 8 goals of 14 matches.

Career and statistics

In national team

International since October 1996 against the Czech Republic, Raúl is today the best Spanish striker of the history (more than 40 goals) and this since it has 25 years, preceding of the players as prestigious as Hierro, Butragueno or the legend Alfredo Di Stefano, an incredible precocity. Shining in eliminating heats (11 goals in 8 matches), it misses a penalty at the last minute of the quarterfinal of the Euro 2000 lost against France. It marks three goals in this tournament, but a wound with the supply mains prevents it from disputing the quarterfinal of the World cup of the FIFA lost against the Republic of Korea in 2002. Appointed captain, it marks at the time from both matches of stopping for the Euro 2004 against Norway, but it does not manage to find the way of the nets against Portugal in final stage. It disputes the four meetings of the World cup 2006 for Spain, it marks against Tunisia. After the World one, he celebrates his 100e selection against Iceland.

Club

1995-96 : Real Madrid has : 2/1 out of Cut of the King; 2/0 in Supercoupe of Spain
1996-97 : Real Madrid has : 5/1 out of Cut of the King)
1997-98 : Real Madrid has : 1/0 out of Cut of the King; 2/3 in Supercoupe of Spain
1998-99 : Real Madrid has : 2/0 out of Cut of the King; 1/0 in Supercoupe d' Europe; 1/1 out of Intercontinental Cut
1999-00 : Real Madrid has : 4/0 out of Cut of the King; 4/2 in Championship of the World of the Clubs)
2000-01 : Real Madrid has : 1/1 in supercoupe of Europe; 1/0 out of Intercontinental Cut)
2001-02 : Real Madrid has : 6/6 out of Cut of the King; 2/3 in Supercoupe of Spain
2002-03 : Real Madrid has : 2/0 out of Cut of the King; 1/0 in Supercoupe d' Europe; 1/0 out of Intercontinental Cut
2003-04 : Real Madrid has : 6/6 out of Cut of the King (Better Striker); 2/1 in Supercoupe of Spain
2004-05 : Real Madrid has : 2/0 in Preliminary round; 1/0 out of Cut of the King

Prize list

- Real Madrid -

Intercontinental Cut ( 2 ):

Victorious : 1998 and 2002
Finalist : 2000

Supercoupe of the UEFA ( 1 ):

Victorious : 2002
Finalist : 2000

League of the Champions ( 3 ):

Victorious : 1998, 2000 and 2002

Supercoupe of Spain ( 3 ):

Victorious : 1997, 2001 and 2003
Finalist : 2007

Championship of Spain ( 5 ):

Champion : 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2007
Vice Champion : 1999, 2005 and 2006

Copa del Rey :

Finalist : 2002 and 2004

Championship of Spain juniors ( 2 ):

Champion : 1992 and 1993

Personal distinctions

Better striker of Liga (Pichichi): 1999 (25 goals), and 2001 (24 goals).
Better striker of the League of the Champions: 1999-2000 (10 goals) and 2000-2001 (7 goals)
Better striker of the Copa del Rey: 2001/2002 (6 goals); 2003-04 (6 goals)
2nd of the Balloon of gold: 2001.
3rd better player of the world chosen by the FIFA: 2001 (5th in 1997, 6th in 2002).
Better world striker of the year 1999 indicated by IF.
Better striker of all the history of the Spanish selection with 44 goals.

Various and anecdotes

on April 15th, 2000, against Saragossa, Raul marked her 100e goal in Liga on penalty at 22 years and 10 months (a record not ready to be beaten).
on February 4th, 2002, at 23 years he becomes the best striker in activity in Liga vis-a-vis Malaga by marking its 112e and 113e goals in 7 seasons and 236 matches.
on December 11th, 2002, at the time of the second phase of the league of the champions, Raul marked her two hundreds and two cent-unième goals all official competitions confused with Real Madrid.
With the Selection, on February 12th, 2003, against Germany, the Spanish captain marked its thirtieth and thirty and unième goals in national team. He became thus only better striker of all the history of the Selection.
on March 1st, 2003, Raul, after having marked 2 goals against Alavés in championship, became the fourth best striker of all the history of Real Madrid with 208 goals, in front of Hugo Sanchez (207 goals). He is preceded more only by Alfredo Di Stéfano (307 goals), Carlos Santillana (290 goals) and Ferenc Puskas (236 goals).
Currently author of 251 goals on the old continent (matches and goals of national cuts not counted), he is the 5th best European striker in activity behind Pierre van Hooijdonk (327 goals, Feyenoord), Ronaldo (303 goals, Milan AC), Teddy Sheringham (296 goals, West Ham United), Henrik Larsson (288 goals, Manchester United).
League of the champions: 58 goals in 114 matches
Liga: 195 goals in 460 matches, is 0.42 goals per match.
Copa del Rey: 27 goals in 47 matches
Others: 4 goals in 10 matches
Since 1999, Raul greets each one of her goals by a sober gesture which suits him like a glove: a kiss on its alliance. Fidelity until the end of the fingers?
Discrete and secret, Raul cultivates an appearance smoothes to escape certain constraints from its trade. The media thus leave it quiet in spite of a marriage with the ex-mannequin Mamen Sanz.
on June 19th, 2006, thanks to a goal against Tunisia, Raul becomes the 18th player has to see marked in 3 World cup different. He marked at the time of the World cup 1998, the World cup 2002 and the World cup 2006.
the 5/26/07, Raùl joined Gento in the history of Real Madrid with 605 matches official with Merengue. Only Handbook Sanchis and Santillana did better with respectively 712 and 643 meetings disputed under the shirt of Real.

Declarations

On the player

Peeled :

"For the moment, it is one of large of the current time. It is making very good years and it is a " except série" by its mobility, by its capacity to be marked and, especially, and it is what surprises me more, because it has already more than five years on an extraordinary level. Raúl is a " monstre" , it has much talent. There is no doubt but it is a little early to compare it with Di Stéfano. "

" Mentally, Raúl is very strong. It prepares well to withstand the pressure. It is psychologically resistant and to a fantastic technique. I am always the Spanish championship and I do not cease admiring this attacker, each time it shows something again. No the doubt, it is a large player. If Raul is elected better player of the world by the FIFA, I will be of agreement. It is not easy to play Real Madrid and especially on level that it shows with each match. Its progression is absolue."

" Raul is the best Spaniard… Raul is always dangerous, always present. It always has a good sight during the play… It is one of the players having the greatest capacities. Its way of playing resembles that of the South American ones narrowly. Technical style of Brésiliens."

Alfredo Di Stéfano :

"It is a player with a great charisma, a striker and a collective player. He showed it in Madrid and in selection. He has a character of gagneur."

" The possibilities that have Raul are infinite and I think that it will contribute to the top of Real Madrid and the selection espagnole."

" Raul is able to do what little can do: To play in a stage filled of 100.000 people and to make as if it were in a course of école."

" Raul is as good as Ronaldo and its name will remain registers in the History of Football."

Hugo Sánchez :

"Raúl is already a symbol of Madrid and its history. Raúl is the heir-at-law to Butragueño to Madrid. It arrived at the moment when there was a change générationnel, when Quita del Buitre was finishes… that pleases to me that somebody as Raúl reaches these figures, because I know perfectly that it all will exceed us and I believe, and I hope, that its sporting life gives the opportunity to him to exceed the largest myth of the history of the madridismo: Alfredo Di Stefano… Raúl is a complete football player… It is more than one N°9, its talent leads it to produce a football beyond the penalty area. It is not the assailing type which I could be, it is a little more than that. Me, in connection with Raúl, and by using a term which is employed here in South America, I would say that it is new and half. Neither an attacker nor a medium ground… It remains to see when they will give him the Gold Balloon. I am not explained how we did not see it yet with this trophy between the hands. I delighted that it is on the way. One day will have to arrive this reconnaissance."

" It has crosses a course in its career of striker it had just arrived at the bar of the 100 goals in Liga. It does not take part only in the play, it also marks, and of the important goals. It are rare the players like him. Its style is very liking too. He is a complete player, who can defend and remove his talent on the attack. He with the capacity of a leader and has many personnalié."

Shine Figo :

"Raul is a chief on the ground and I admire his capacity to carry a team on his shoulders. It one is gained, which saw football in an extraordinary intensity. It is easy to get along with him and I think that we can make large things together. Into private, he is an extraordinary human being, and a large help so that I adapt in a new city and a news équipe."

Fabio Capello :

"He was born gagnor, he is an inheritance of Real Madrid."

" It is my assailing preferred, It has an instinct meurtrier."

Jorge Valdano :

"When I saw Raul for the first time, I knew that it was to be touched by an angel. I could not mislead me on this boy This kid would become a Star of the world like Butragueño" It is always very young, has enough time to carry out all its objectives. He is a player with an extraordinary talent and a marvellous character who will always astonish us. Raul with the personality to stop a train… Raul has an embarrassment moreover… that of the gagneur."

Rivaldo :

"If it had been born in Brazil it would be a star. " . "

Zinedine Zidane :

"Raul has a strong personality. It is a large player. All that it showed these last years proves that it is one of the best players in the world. "

" An adjective for Raul? … ALL ..... Raul it is all in Real Madrid."

Michel Platini :

"Raul is one very very good joueur."

Roberto Carlos :

"Raul is a key player for us, it is a leader, a " crack". Although it is young, it is our chief on the ground and one of those which contaminates the autres."

Johan Cruyff :

"For me, Raul was above. For its smoothness, its technique, its physical qualities, it was my number one. "

Ronaldo :

"A player brésilien" would be said;.

Of the player

See too

External bonds

Biography and data sheet of Raúl González Blanco
and Site devoted to this player
and nonofficial Site
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