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MOTD # 26: Raúl

His full name is Raul Gonzalez Blanco, but in the sports world he is known as Raúl. The striker Raul, the record hunter, the (former) captain, the model father, husband ... Raúl the model, the idol, a living football legend. About Raúl can only speak in superlatives. The man in football if you look at the association's career, achieved everything. In the national team he has long El Capitan , but just in 2008 when Spain won the European Championship, he was expelled from the team. At the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, he was unfortunately not as active part. Otherwise his athletic career would be just perfect, but you can not have everything ...

on 12/18/2010, so the last Saturday in the Bundesliga match against 1 FC Köln Raúl fired his duty game goals numero 332, 333 and 334 a hat trick for his current club Schalke 04 and his eleventh goal in 24 games for Schalke in total. Adding to his work for the English record champion Real Madrid (1994-2010) there are 765 competitive matches. 756! The need to manage for now. That must be ... to Melt the tongue. Siebenhundertsechsundfünfzig. Un-barrel-bar. But was.

Raúl scored 44 goals in 102 games for the English national team and 68 goals in 132 games for Real Madrid and in three games for Schalke 04 in the Champions League ( as of 20 October 2010). Thus he is the best scorer in the history of the 1955 European Cup champions imported competition. With his goal on 28 September 2005 compared Olympiakos Piraeus, he managed to be the first player to break the 50-goal mark in the Champions League. He overtook the Real legend Alfredo Di Stefano and currently leads the scoring charts of the Champions League. He has 228 goals in 550 league games (as of 4 July 2010) 's third leading scorer in the Primera División and the best scorer in the history of Real Madrid. On 15 February 2009 he won with a brace in a 4-0 away win over Gijon Alfredo di Stefano, who had previously said up to day 307 goals in official competition matches.

On 21 Completed in April 2007 Raúl League home match against FC Valencia his 600th Competitive match for the "Royal". Moreover, he graduated from the 11. January 2009 compared RCD Mallorca his 500th League play (all for Real Madrid), scoring the goal for 0-2 (final score 0:3). He is the world's 18th Player who was successful in three different World Cup finals at least one hit. He is also the leading scorer and after Andoni Zubizarreta the most successful missions to the English national team player.

presentation at Schalke: Sometimes he even has a carpet more happiness in life.

Uff! So many games, goals, records and only one man I repeat: Unbelievable, but it was. A great man, athlete, man and role model. Oh yes ... I know as someone who took over at Real Madrid's number 7 and ...

A man and a clown.

Well, in footballing terms, you can compare the two do not really because they are two totally different players, but a human could learn a CR. But he will not do it because ... eh, that's a totally different story. I dedicate myself ....

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