Alfredo Di Stéfano

Argentine-Spanish association football player (1926-2014) · Argentina · Footballers · Died at 88 · also Spain · also Colombia

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The blond arrow who scored in five straight European Cup finals and turned Real Madrid into a continental dynasty. Di Stéfano's partnership with Puskás and that 7-3 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 set the template for what a great club could be.

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A life in dates

2014Died7 July 20142008“It has changed a bit, of course. The speed and all that.”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

“We must always strive to improve, little by little.”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

“Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

“I always enjoyed training, sweating and learning”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

“I've always been a team player, that's all. One for all and all for one.”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

“People nowadays are obsessed with golden awards, about who is the best - when we know in reality the one with more money wins.”In their words10 June 2008Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008).Read the whole statement

2007UEFA President's AwardAward2003Illustrious Citizen of Buenos AiresAward1964RCD Espanyol de BarcelonaClub1964-19661959Ballon d'OrAwardPichichi TrophyAward1958Pichichi TrophyAward1957Ballon d'OrAwardPichichi TrophyAwardSpain men's national football teamClub1957-19611956Pichichi TrophyAward1954Pichichi TrophyAward1953Real Madrid Club de FútbolClub1953-19641949Colombia men's national football teamClub1949-1952MillonariosClub1949-19531947Argentina national football teamClub1946Club Atlético HuracánClub1945Boca JuniorsClub1945-19491926Born4 July 1926

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Photos 8

Di stefano argentina (cropped)

Alfredo Di Stéfano with Spain Team in Rome, 1959

Alfredo Di Stéfano en Santamaria

Abrazo distefano marzolini

Alfredo di Stefano - panoramio

Alfredo Di Stefano River Plate (cropped)

Alfredo Di Stefano River Plate

Alfredo Di Stefano

In their own words 10

Alfredo Di Stéfano

10 statements, newest first

It has changed a bit, of course. The speed and all that.
Jun 10, 2008, Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008)., Own words
We must always strive to improve, little by little.
Jun 10, 2008, Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008)., Own words
Do you know how many rules there are in football? … There are 17 rules. That's it. Everyone talks about football and nobody remembers this simple fact.
Jun 10, 2008, Quotes of Di Stéfano from "Training, sweating and learning" by Marcela Mora y Araujo, in The Guardian (10 June 2008)., Own words

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Teams 8

RCD Espanyol de Barcelona1964-1966

Spain men's national football team1957-1961

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol1953-1964

Millonarios1949-1953

Colombia men's national football team1949-1952

Argentina national football team1947-1947

Club Atlético Huracán1946-1946

Boca Juniors1945-1949

Career record

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1964-19664711

1957-19613123

1953-1964282216

1949-195310290

1949-195240

1947-194766

1946-19462510

1945-19496649

Awards

UEFA President's Award2007

Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires2003

Ballon d'Or1959

Pichichi Trophy1959

Pichichi Trophy1958

Ballon d'Or1957

Pichichi Trophy1957

Pichichi Trophy1956

Pichichi Trophy1954

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Sports Merit

In their orbit

Spouse: Sara Freites

About this person

Alfredo Di Stéfano started at River Plate at 17 in 1943, won Copa America with Argentina in 1947, then decamped to Colombia's Millonarios during a players' strike in 1949. Real Madrid signed him and he became the engine of their 1950s dominance: 216 league goals in 282 games, five European Cup wins between 1956 and 1960, goals in every final including a hat-trick in the last. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1957 and 1959, played until 40 at Espanyol, and later stood fourth in France Football's Player of the Century vote behind Pelé, Maradona, and Cruyff. Eusébio and Fontaine called him the most complete footballer in history; Pelé said he was the best ever.

Country

Argentina

In common with Alfredo

Elisa MontésAlso in Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)Javier SetóAlso in Saeta rubia (1956)

Matías Prats CañeteAlso in Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)

Núria EspertAlso in Eleven Pairs of Boots (1954)

Diego ForlánBoth received Pichichi Trophy

Miroslav KloseBoth received UEFA President's Award

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