Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Forgotten Prince of Bernabeu


Does anyone know who is the prince in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium? I think, The man is Raul Gonzalez.

Now, the Spanish player is 32 years old and in this season, he rarely played. Since the arrival of talented players who purchased by Florentino Perez to build Los Galacticos II. The man with 180 cm height was once a key player of El Real. Even he called the prince of the Bernabeu because of the talent, loyalty and the nature of leadership in the field. 

An attacker who was born in Madrid 32 years ago it has carved many achievements with Real Madrid. He has contributed to the El Real in winning 3 European Champions League title in 1998, 2000 and 2002. And the Spain Primera Division champions in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003.

Although competition in Madrid is very tight, but his hard work and talent makes him always selected in the squad of El Real. In fact he became a club captain after Fernando Hierro retired. 

He ever played with other world class strikers like Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy. But the most dangerous is when he played with Fernando Morientes. In fact he had received the title of El Pichichi or league topscorer in Spain Primera Division.

The most proud personal Achievement of players with number 7 is to become a palyer who scored more than 50 goals in the Champions League. 
But now he must sit on the bench due to El Real competition from other attackers like Gonzalo Higuain and Karim Benzema.
In Spanish national team, he also had to lose the place after the coaches prefer choose David Villa and Fernando Torres as first team striker than to choose him.

How the fate of the Bernabeu prince next? Is he able to rise again or start to be forgotten after the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo, Ricardo Kaka and Gonzalo Higuain?

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