Di Stéfano

Everyone has heard of Pele, Cruyff and Maradona, but for true football connoisseurs, Alfredo Di Stefano, the wizard behind Real Madrid’s five consecutive European Cups, is the greatest of them all.

Synopsis of Di Stéfano

For more than 20 years, Di Stefano was the driving force behind three different teams in three different countries: River Plate in his native Argentina, Millonarios de Bogotá in Colombia, and then in 1953, after one of the most bittersweet battles in the history of football transfers, Real Madrid. It was there that he became the first great world icon of the sport. Nicknamed the blond arrow, thanks to its resistance, its tactical versatility and its precision in scoring goals.

Di Stefano was the one who transformed the history of Real Madrid, his style of play was the envy of the whole continent and from his hand, the white team became the club of world reference during the years that Di Stefano dressed the uniform merengue.

This is the complete story, which includes exclusive and unpublished interviews in which we will learn about Di Stéfano’s journey, from his humble childhood to when he emerged as one of the greatest global superstars ever known in the history of sport.

Di Stéfano

Author Ian Hawkey
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Ian Hawkey

Ian Hawkey writes for The Sunday Times, for whom he was the European football correspondent, based in Madrid until 2012. His first book on the history of African football won the prestigious National Sports Councils Football Book of the Year award and was also a finalist in the William Hill Sports Book for the Year. Di Stéfano is his second book.

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