Raúl

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Raúl
Personal information
Full name:	Raúl González Blanco
Date of birth:	27 June 1977 (1977-06-27)
Place of birth:	Madrid, Spain
Height:	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position:	Striker
Club information
Current club	Real Madrid B (manager)
Youth clubs
1987-1990 1990–1992 1992–1994	San Cristóbal Atlético Madrid Real Madrid
Senior clubs
Years	Club	App (Gls)
1994 1994 1994–2010 2010–2012 2012–2014 2014–2015 Total	Real Madrid C Real Madrid B Real Madrid Schalke 04 Al-Sadd New York Cosmos	007 0(16) 001 00(0) 550 (228) 066 0(28) 038 0(11) 028 0(8) 693 (291)
National team
1996–2006	Spain	102 0(44)
Teams managed
2018-2019 2019– 2020	Real Madrid (youth) Real Madrid B Real Madrid U19 (caretaker)

Raúl González Blanco (born 27 June 1977), known as Raúl, is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Real Madrid Castilla, the reserve team of La Liga club Real Madrid. Raúl is regarded as one of the greatest players of his era.

Raúl was born in the San Cristóbal de los Ángeles neighborhood of Madrid where he played for the local youth team before moving to the Atlético Madrid youth team. He later moved to Real Madrid's youth academy and played at its various levels. In 1994, he signed his first professional contract with the fourth division team Real Madrid C, and then was swiftly promoted to the first team.

He spent 16 years of his career playing for Real Madrid and is the club's third all-time top goalscorer with 323 goals 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, after Fernando Hierro's departure from the club 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, before signing for Qatari 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 sixth-highest goalscorer in the history of La Liga with 228 goals. He is also the highest Spanish scorer in European leagues, with 256 goals, scoring 228 goals in La Liga and 28 goals in the Bundesliga. He also 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 also played 1,000 matches in his career, one of only 18 players to have done so.

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 captaincy of the side in 2002 and held it until 2006, the year in which he played his last international match.

Raúl was named the top international goalscorer in the world by International Federation of Football History & Statistics in 1999, and ranked second in the 2001 Ballon d'Or and third in the 2001 FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players, and was included in the UEFA list of the 50-best European players of the 1954–2004 period. He was part of the European Team of the Year of European Sports Media in 1997, 1999 and 2000.

Honours

Player

Real Madrid Youth

• Dallas Cup: 1993, 1994

Real Madrid

• La Liga: 1994–95, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08
• Supercopa de España: 1997, 2001, 2003, 2008
• UEFA Champions League: 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2001–02
• UEFA Super Cup: 2002
• Intercontinental Cup: 1998, 2002

Schalke 04

• DFB-Pokal: 2010–11
• DFL-Supercup: 2011

Al Sadd

• Qatar Stars League: 2012–13
• Emir of Qatar Cup: 2014

New York Cosmos

• North American Soccer League: Spring Season 2015
• North American Supporters' Trophy: 2015
• Soccer Bowl: 2015

Spain U21

• UEFA European Under-21 Championship runner-up:1996

Individual

• La Liga's Breakthrough Player: 1994–95
• Zarra Trophy: 1995–96, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2002–03
• La Liga's Best Spanish Player: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02 (record)
• European Sports Magazines Team of the Year: 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000
• Pichichi Trophy: 1998–99, 2000–01
• IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer: 1999
• UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying top goalscorer
• UEFA Champions League top goalscorer: 1999–2000, 2000–01
• UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02
• UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament: 2000
• Ballon d'Or runner-up: 2001
• FIFA World Player of the Year Bronze award: 2001
• UEFA Champions League top assist provider: 2002–03
• FIFA 100
• Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano: 2007–08
• Marca Leyenda: 2009
• Golden Foot Award Runner-up: 2009, 2010, 2011
• Goal of the Month in Germany: August 2011, March 2012, April 2012, July 2013
• Goal of the Year in Germany: 2011, 2013 (shared with Julian Draxler)
• Qatar Stars League Fair Play Award: 2013
• NASL Player of the Month: May 2015

Records

• Real Madrid Record Appearance Maker: 741 games
• Real Madrid Record Appearance Maker in La Liga: 550 games
• European Competitions Record Appearance Maker: 150^*
• Third leading scorer in the world (throughout history), according to IFFHS Statistics: 125 goals

External links

• Raúl profile at Soccerbase
• Raúl profile at Transfermarkt

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