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Raúl González Blanco ( spanish pronunciation : [ raˈul ɣonˈθaleθ ˈβlaŋko ] ; born 27 June 1977 ), known as Raúl, is a spanish football director and former player who played as a forward. He is the current coach of Real Madrid Castilla, the reservation team of La Liga club Real Madrid. Raúl is considered one of the most important players in the history of Real Madrid and regarded as one of the greatest spanish players of all-time and besides one of the best forwards always. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Raúl was born in the San Cristóbal de los Ángeles neighborhood of Madrid where he played for the local anesthetic young team before moving to the Atlético Madrid youth team. He by and by moved to Real Madrid ‘s young person academy and played at its assorted levels. In 1994, he signed his foremost professional sign with the fourth class team Real Madrid C, and then was swiftly promoted to the first team. He spent 16 years of his career play for Real Madrid and is the cabaret ‘s second all-time top goalscorer with 323 goals [ 6 ] and has the most appearances in the history of the club, with 741. With Los Blancos, Raúl won six La Liga titles, three UEFA Champions League titles, scoring in two finals, four Supercopa de España titles, one UEFA Super Cup and two Intercontinental Cups. In 2003, he was appointed captain of the team and retained the position until he left the club in 2010. He then signed for Schalke 04, where he won a DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup, [ 7 ] before signing for Qatari golf club Al Sadd in 2012, where he won the league and the Emir of Qatar Cup. He ended his career with New York Cosmos in 2015, after winning a domestic treble. Raúl is the fifth-highest goalscorer in the history of La Liga with 228 goals. He is besides the highest spanish scorer in european leagues, with 256 goals, scoring 228 goals in La Liga and 28 goals in the Bundesliga. He besides has the third-most appearances in the history of La Liga, 550 matches. He is the fifth highest goalscorer in Champions League history with 71 goals, and has played the fifth most games. He has besides played 1,000 matches in his career, [ 8 ] one of only 18 players to have done so. [ 9 ] Although he did not win any major competitions while playing for the Spain national team, he scored a then-record 44 goals in 102 appearances for la Roja, appearing in three FIFA World Cups and two european championships. Raúl took over the captainship of the side in 2002 and held it until 2006, the class in which he played his last international pit. Raúl was named the lead international goalscorer in the universe by International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 1999, and ranked second in the 2001 Ballon d’Or and third gear in the 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year. [ 10 ] In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the populace ‘s greatest live players, and was included in the UEFA list of the 50-best european players of the 1954–2004 menstruation. He was part of the European Team of the year of european Sports Media in 1997, 1999 and 2000. [ 11 ] Raúl won two Pichichi trophies ( 1999 and 2001 ), the top goalscorer award of the UEFA Champions League ( 2000 and 2001 ), five Don Balón Awards ( 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 ) and one Best Player Award at the Intercontinental Cup in 1998 .
Club career [edit ]
youth clubs [edit ]
Raúl ‘s career began at his local team four hundred San Cristóbal de los Ángeles playing for their Alevín team and the Infantil the adjacent season. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He signed with Atlético Madrid ‘s Infantil team and won a home title with the Cadete team the following season. Following Atlético ‘s then-president Jesús Gil decisiveness to close their youth academy as a cost-saving measure, Raúl moved on to Real Madrid ‘s Cadete team in La Fábrica. The stick to temper, he was promoted to the Juvenil C team and subsequently went on to play for their Juvenil B and Juvenil A team. [ 14 ] While with the real number youth set-up, Raúl won the Dallas Cup in 1993 and 1994. [ 15 ]
real Madrid [edit ]
Raúl in 1995 He started his master career in the 1994–95 season with Real Madrid C. [ 16 ] He scored 16 goals in good nine games ( including five in one equal against CD Corralejo ) and was swiftly promoted to the first team by coach Jorge Valdano, replacing Emilio Butragueño in a emblematic “ die of the peak. “ [ citation needed ] He became the youngest player – 17 years and 124 days – ever to play for the senior side, though the record was broken by Alberto Rivera by and by that like season. On 29 October 1994, in an aside game against Real Zaragoza at La Romareda, he created a finish for assume partner Iván Zamorano, heralding the death of Butragueño in the summons. [ citation needed ] The following week, Raúl scored his beginning goal in his second senior plot on a home introduction against Madrid rivals and former youth club Atlético Madrid in a bitter bowler hat match. [ 17 ] in full establishing himself as a regular in the first team, Raúl registered a sum of nine goals in 28 appearances to help Real Madrid win the 1994–95 league championship in his inaugural temper. With Real Madrid, he won several honours, including further La Liga titles in 1996–97 ( scoring 21 La Liga goals ), 2000–01 ( scoring 24 La Liga goals ), and 2002–03 ( scoring 16 La Liga goals in a political campaign truncated by a turn of appendicitis for which Raúl was hospitalised ). During the period from 1998 to 2002, Raúl and Real Madrid besides won three UEFA Champions League trophies in 1998, 2000, and 2002. For most of this time, Raúl struck up a fecund scoring partnership with Fernando Morientes and later Ronaldo. During a La Liga game against cutthroat rivals Barcelona at the Nou Camp in October 1999, Raúl silenced the hostile home crowd of about 100,000 fans when he scored and then memorably celebrated his goal by putting a finger to his lips as though to tell them to be lull. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Raúl took over the captainship of Real Madrid when Fernando Hierro was transferred in 2003, a responsibility he held until leaving the club in 2010. Despite appearing in two finals, in 2002 ( in which he scored ) and 2004, Raúl never lifted the Copa del Rey .
He became the first musician to score 50 Champions League goals when he scored in a 2–1 group stage win over Olympiacos on 28 September 2005, [ 21 ] and was besides the beginning to make 100 appearances in the rival. [ 22 ] He was besides the beginning player to score in two Champions League finals, since the competition was renamed, scoring in the finals of both 2000 against Valencia in the Stade de France, Saint-Denis, and 2002 against Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Raúl holds the differentiation of having never been sent off in his 17 years at the professional level. [ 23 ] On 11 November 2008, Raúl scored his three-hundredth finish for veridical Madrid with a hat-trick against Real Unión, with real winning the pit 4–3 but being eliminated on aside goals after drawing 6–6 on sum. [ 24 ] In total, Raúl scored 323 goals for Real Madrid, breaking the long-standing club record of Alfredo Di Stéfano ( 307 ) with a volley goal against Sporting de Gijón on 15 February 2009. He is presently fifth on the all-time list of La Liga goalscorers, behind Argentine Lionel Messi, Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, Spaniard Telmo Zarra and Mexican Hugo Sánchez. [ 25 ]
Raúl in his last match with Real Madrid against Real Zaragoza Raúl and companion long-serving teammate Iker Casillas were both awarded “ contracts for life ” in 2008, the terms of which stipulated that the contracts would be renewed annually for vitamin a retentive as they played 30 matches each season. [ 26 ] On 23 September 2009, Raúl equalled Manolo Sanchís ‘ league appearance criminal record for Real Madrid, [ 27 ] and is second base in La Liga behind Andoni Zubizarreta, who played in 622 matches. Along with years of captainship for both Real Madrid and Spain, Raúl was known as “ El Capitan “ ( “ The Captain ” ). [ 28 ] Raúl ‘s last touch with the ball as a real number Madrid player before an injury ruled him out of action for the rest of that season was to score his last goal, the opening goal scored on 24 April 2010 in a 2–1 away victory against Real Zaragoza in La Romareda, coincidentally the stadium where he made his debut in 1994. It was scored in the fiftieth minute after Raúl ( himself merely on the pitch as a utility for Rafael van five hundred Vaart after 15 minutes ) had signalled he could not physically continue and was prepared to be substituted off for Karim Benzema one minute after the goal. [ 29 ] Before the substitution could be made, veridical Madrid launched a counter-attack to create a goal. Though Raúl ran to a boring limp, he shuffled into the box and was able to poke the musket ball from Cristiano Ronaldo ‘s legislate. Having spent the rest of the season recovering from that injury, the club confirmed on 25 July 2010 that Raúl would be leaving the club, a day after his teammate Guti confirmed he was besides leaving after a 15-year spell. [ 30 ]
Schalke 04 [edit ]
Raúl in a train school term with Schalke 04 in August 2011 Raúl signed a biennial compress with Schalke 04 on 28 July 2010. Schalke mind passenger car Felix Magath hailed the sign language and told the club web site, “ It ‘s big news for FC Schalke 04, I am please that we have succeeded in signing such an especial football player and first striker switching to the Bundesliga for Schalke 04. ” [ 31 ] Raúl chose Schalke because they qualified for the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League. [ 32 ] Raúl scored his first finish for the baseball club during his first match on 1 August 2010 with a brace in a 3–1 victory over Bayern Munich in the final peer of the pre-season competition LIGA full ! Cup 2010. One week belated, he made his competitive debut in the 2010 DFL-Supercup on 7 August 2010 again against Bayern, but this time he failed to score in the 2–0 frustration. Raúl made his Bundesliga introduction on 21 August 2010 in a 2–1 defeat against Hamburger SV. [ 33 ] and scored his foremost goal for Schalke in the Bundesliga against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 25 September 2010 in a 2–2 drawing card. [ 34 ] After a repose start, he rediscovered his goalscoring form in the Bundesliga with a pair against FC St. Pauli on 5 November in a 3–0 winnings, and on 20 November, he scored his first hat-trick for the club in a 4–0 gain over Werder Bremen. On 18 December, he scored his second hat-trick for Schalke in a 3–0 succeed against 1. FC Köln .
Raúl with Schalke in 2011 Raúl scored another crucial goal on 2 March 2011 in a 1–0 victory over Bayern Munich in the semi-final of 2010–11 DFB-Pokal. After being lacking for six years, Schalke ultimately reached the finals since 2005. In the final match, they played against MSV Duisburg, the first 2. Bundesliga team which reached the concluding since 2004. Raúl never won a domestic cup with real Madrid ( the Copa del Rey ), but on 21 May 2011, in his first season, he last won a domestic cup and got his inaugural trophy with his raw cabaret. They won the tournament with a 5–0 succeed at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. This success was followed with victory two months late on 23 July 2011 in the 2011 DFL-Supercup against the league champions and rivals Borussia Dortmund. In european play, Raúl has since become the highest goal scorer in all UEFA competitions with 73 goals, ahead of Milan veteran Filippo Inzaghi with 70 goals. He scored 71 goals in the Champions League ( 66 goals with Real Madrid and five with Schalke 04 ) and in addition his two goals with Los Blancos, one goal in the 2000 UEFA Super Cup and the other one in the 1998 Intercontinental Cup. On 22 October 2010, Raúl scored doubly against Hapoel Tel Aviv in a 3–1 win, which tied him with german legend Gerd Müller for the most european goals. Raúl in full broke this phonograph record on 15 February 2011 on his hark back to Spain with a crucial away goal in the cycle of 16 tie against Valencia at the Mestalla Stadium in a 1–1 draw. In the quarter-finals, Raúl scored two goals against Internazionale : one finish in the first leg, a 5–2 away win at the San Siro, and one in the moment peg, a 2–1 home gain at the Veltins-Arena. Schalke progressed to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League for the first fourth dimension in their history, where they played against Manchester United. Schalke lost the first match 2–0, which was their foremost home frustration this season in the tournament, and lost again 4–1 in Old Trafford. Despite the kill, Raúl considered it an respect that he had swapped shirts with Ryan Giggs. [ 32 ] On 19 November 2011, he captained Schalke for the first gear time due to an injury to Benedikt Höwedes in a 4–0 home gain against 1. FC Nürnberg. He besides scored the moment goal and assisted the fourth in that match. Raúl scored another hat-trick against Werder Bremen on 17 December 2011. [ 35 ] The goals came in a 5–0 winnings that cemented Schalke ‘s stead in third place going into the winter break. [ 36 ] On 19 February 2012, he scored the four-hundredth goal of his career ; at that time he had scored 323 with real number Madrid, 44 with Spain and 33 with Schalke. [ 37 ] On 5 April 2012, in the second peg of the UEFA Europa League match against Athletic Bilbao, he scored his 77th goal in a european contest. At a imperativeness conference on 19 April 2012, Raúl announced he would leave Schalke after his contract expired in June, and that “ [ his ] future is not in Europe ”. [ 38 ] Raúl had such an shock at Schalke that, on his passing, the club opted to retire the numeral 7 shirt for an indefinite period. [ 39 ] however, in 2013, the issue 7 shirt was given to Max Meyer, Schalke ‘s new omen. [ 40 ]
Al Sadd [edit ]
On 12 May 2012, it was announced Raúl had signed a deal with Qatari side Al Sadd for the 2012–13 Qatar Stars League season. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] He played his inaugural competitive peer for the baseball club on 5 August in the 2012 Sheikh Jassem Cup, scoring a punishment in extra time in order to secure a 2–0 winnings against Mesaimeer. [ 43 ] The veteran besides took on the role of captain after Abdulla Koni was substituted. [ 44 ] On 13 April 2013, Raúl captained Al Sadd to the 2012–13 Qatar Stars League title. Raúl scored 9 goals in 22 appearances to help Al Sadd win their first style in five years. [ 45 ] He was besides presented with the post-season QFA -sanctioned Fair Play Award in May 2013. [ 46 ] On 22 August 2013, Raúl played for Real Madrid in the first half of the Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu and scored the foremost goal. He then played the second one-half for Al Sadd as Real Madrid won 5–0. [ 47 ] On 5 March 2014, Raúl announced he would retire from professional football at the end of the Qatari football season. [ 48 ]
New York Cosmos [edit ]
Raúl walks onto the slope as a member of the New York Cosmos for a home game in 2015 On 30 October 2014, Raúl returned to professional football and signed with the New York Cosmos in the United States. [ 49 ] He made his north american Soccer League ( NASL ) debut on 4 April 2015 in a 1–0 succeed against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, partially owned by his former Real Madrid hit partner Ronaldo, leaving with a hamstring injury in the second half. [ 50 ] The stick to week, at the Indy Eleven, he scored his first goal to equalise in a 1–1 draw. [ 51 ] Raúl scored four times as the undefeated Cosmos won the spring season with five wins and five draws. [ 52 ] On 16 October 2015, it was again announce Raúl would retire at the end of the season. [ 53 ] The Cosmos finished with the best regular season record, winning the north american Supporters ‘ Trophy. On 7 November, he scored the winning goal as his team came from behind to win 2–1 against the Strikers in the semi-finals, earning a rate at Soccer Bowl 2015, which they won 3–2 against the Ottawa Fury eight days late. He reiterated his decision to retire after the Soccer Bowl. [ 54 ]
International career [edit ]
Raúl began his Spain career at the youth degree and represented the nation at the 1995 FIFA U-20 World Cup, scoring three goals from five matches. He was besides part of the under-21 side that reached the final of the 1996 UEFA european Under-21 Championship, and even scored his side ‘s irregular counterweight in the final, although he late missed his penalty in the resulting shoot-out, which was won by Italy. [ 55 ] In sum, he scored 17 goals at the respective young person levels for Spain. With the elder team, Raúl went on for many years to score a national record 44 goals in 102 caps for Spain. however, David Villa late equaled Raúl ‘s record in 2010 and surpassed it on 25 March 2011 in a UEFA Euro 2012 modifier. Of his 44 international goals, Raúl scored 32 goals in competitive matches, six of which were in the finals of major tournaments and 12 from friendly matches .
1998 FIFA World Cup [edit ]
Raúl earned his beginning senior ceiling against the Czech Republic on 9 October 1996, playing the full 90 minutes of a scoreless describe in 1998 FIFA World Cup reservation at the Letná Stadion in Prague. In his third match, on 14 December against Yugoslavia at the Mestalla Stadium, he recorded his first international goal in a 2–0 qualifying succeed. At the final tournament in France, Raúl featured in every match as Spain were eliminated from Group D. He scored in their open match to put them 2–1 up in an eventual 2–3 loss to Nigeria in Nantes. [ 56 ]
UEFA Euro 2000 [edit ]
On 27 March 1999, in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier, Raúl scored four goals in Spain ‘s 9–0 spread-eagle of Austria. [ 57 ] Four days late, he scored three goals in a 6–0 away win against San Marino during the same qualify tournament. [ 58 ] On 5 June, against the lapp opponents in Villarreal, he was again on target in a 9–0 rout. [ 59 ] Raúl played every minute of Spain ‘s Euro 2000 finals campaign in Belgium and the Netherlands. He scored the first base goal in their 2–1 succeed over Slovenia at the Amsterdam Arena. [ 60 ] Spain were knocked out in the quarter-finals by eventual champions France ; Raúl missed a survive hour punishment which would have taken the tie to extra-time. [ 61 ]
2002 FIFA World Cup [edit ]
At the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan, Raúl opened a 3–1 acquire over the Slovenes in Spain ‘s inaugural Group B peer, [ 62 ] and added two more in a 3–2 gain over South Africa in Daejeon to advance as group winners. [ 63 ] He suffered a groin injury in the round of 16 win over the Republic of Ireland, [ 64 ] and missed the remainder of the tournament, in which Spain went out to South Korea in the quarter-finals .
UEFA Euro 2004 [edit ]
On 7 September 2002, Raúl scored in a 2–0 off win over Greece in Euro 2004 qualify, putting him on 29 goals in 56 external games, equalling the home goalscoring record set by the recently retired Fernando Hierro. [ 65 ] He broke the record on 12 February 2003 when he scored twice in a 3–1 friendly acquire over Germany at Son Moix in Palma, Mallorca. [ 66 ] He started every match at the Euro 2004 finals in Portugal, in which Spain crashed out at the group stage .
2006 FIFA World Cup [edit ]
Raúl earned his 89th capital on 8 October 2005 in a 2–0 away win over Belgium in 2006 World Cup qualify, levelling with Hierro as Spain ‘s most-capped outfield musician. [ 67 ] however, he played less frequently across the campaign as new coach Luis Aragonés preferred to partner David Villa and Fernando Torres. At the final tournament in Germany, he came on at half-time for Luis García in the second group peer in Stuttgart, with Spain trailing Tunisia 0–1. When goalkeeper Ali Boumnijel could not retain Cesc Fàbregas ‘ shot in the 72nd moment, Raúl equalised from close scope as Spain finally won 3–1. [ 68 ] On 15 August 2006, Raúl won his hundredth cap for Spain, in a scoreless friendly draw with Iceland in Reykjavík. [ 69 ] He was last choose for the national team on 6 September, in a 3–2 kill against Northern Ireland in Belfast, a match in which he hit the mail late on. [ 70 ]
Managerial career [edit ]
real Madrid U15s [edit ]
On 17 August 2018, Raúl was appointed young person coach at Real Madrid, taking charge of the Cadete B ( under-15 ) police squad. [ 71 ]
very Madrid Castilla [edit ]
On 20 June 2019, he was appointed coach of Real Madrid Castilla. [ 72 ] He began the season with three wins, five draws, and five losses. [ 73 ]
style of gambling [edit ]
Raúl executing a bicycle kick for real Madrid in 2009 A fecund goalscorer and a highly creative forward, Raúl is regarded as one of the greatest and most consistent forwards of his coevals. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] Wearing the number 7 jersey for most of his baseball club and international career, he was adequate to of playing anywhere along the front line, although he was primarily deployed as a centre-forward, or as a supporting striker. [ 77 ] Raúl was a agile, left-footed player, who was adequate to of scoring both in and outside the penalty area with his accurate and brawny shoot, [ 77 ] and had a preference for scoring goals from chips. [ 78 ] He possessed excellent ball control and technical ability, and was effective in the air adenine well. [ 77 ] Although chiefly renowned for prolific goalscoring, Raúl was besides a highly creative and hardworking player, capable of playing off of his teammates, creating chances and assisting goals, [ 74 ] [ 79 ] and was occasionally deployed as an attacking midfielder in his late career. [ 80 ] In accession to these characteristics, Raúl is remembered for his leadership and discipline – throughout his extensive career, he never received a crimson card, and he was rarely booked. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] [ 83 ] For his technical skills, elegance, goalscoring and performances, he was nicknamed “ El Ferrari “, or “ The Ferrari, ” by compatriot Fernando Hierro, another emblematic Real Madrid player. [ 84 ] He was besides an accurate punishment taker. [ 85 ] In 2013, early England centre-back Rio Ferdinand praised Raúl for his cagey apparent motion off the ball, and his ability to exploit gaps or draw out defenders in order to create space for his teammates ‘ runs, describing him as : “ the most intelligent musician [ he ‘d ] played against. ” [ 86 ]
Media [edit ]
Raúl has been sponsored by german sportswear company Adidas during his career and has appeared in Adidas commercials. [ 87 ] He has advertised Adidas Predator football boots, and in 2004 he starred in an Adidas commercial featuring a count of early stars on mopeds, including Zinedine Zidane, Michael Ballack, Alessandro Del Piero and David Trezeguet. [ 87 ]
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Raúl has featured in Pepsi commercials, including an ad for the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan where he lined up aboard players including David Beckham, Roberto Carlos and Gianluigi Buffon in taking on a team of Sumo players. [ 88 ] Raúl features in EA Sports ‘ FIFA video recording game series. His regular goal celebration of kissing the ring finger – a show of affection to his wife – appears in FIFA 18. [ 89 ]
personal life [edit ]
Raúl in 2019 Throughout his career, Raúl ‘s goal celebration consisted of kissing his wedding ring as an recognition to his wife Mamen Sanz, whom he married in 1999 and with whom he has four sons and a daughter : Jorge, Hugo, twins Héctor and Mateo, and María. [ 90 ] Jorge and Hugo are both footballers ; Jorge at Fordham Preparatory School in New York City, [ 91 ] and Hugo in New York City FC ‘s academy. [ 92 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
International [edit ]
Goals by year[93]
Year
Apps
Goals
1996
4
1
1997
6
0
1998
10
4
1999
9
10
2000
11
3
2001
9
5
2002
9
6
2003
10
8
2004
13
3
2005
12
2
2006
9
2
Total
102
44
managerial statistics [edit ]
- As of 5 December 2021
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team
From
To
Record
Ref
Real Madrid Castilla
20 June 2019
Present
68
27
20
21
101
84
+17
0 39.71
[94]
Real Madrid U19 (caretaker)
1 July 2020
31 August 2020
4
4
0
0
11
4
+7
100.00
Total
72
31
20
21
112
88
+24
0 43.06
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Honours [edit ]
Raúl in his last season with Real Madrid
player [edit ]
Real Madrid Youth
Real Madrid
Schalke 04
Al Sadd
New York Cosmos
Spain U21
Individual
Records
- Has not received a red card in entire career.[81]
coach [edit ]
Real Madrid U19
Decorations [edit ]
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
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