The best Spanish soccer players
Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world. In Spain, almost everybody loves soccer as it is one of the most popular and watched sport there. The Spanish national team is one of the best teams in the world. They have won the last Euro in 2008. When it comes to World Cups, Spain were not that successful as they only reached the semifinals in 1950. The best performance of the last years is the quarter finals in France 1998.
The most popular and famous Spanish soccer players are Raul Gonzalez Blanco, Kubala, Zamora, Di Stefano, Butragueno, Santillana and Luis Suarez. The Spanish championship has the best soccer team in the world: Barcelona and Real Madrid. Also Valencia, Deportivo la Coruna, Atletico Madrid and other great team play in La Primera Division. The Spanish club teams are way much better than the national team as they have greater results.
Raul Gonzalez Blanco is the most famous soccer player who plays for Real Madrid nowadays. He was born in Madrid in 1977. He is loved by Real’s fans and he is appreciated to be a real symbol of the team. He won 3 Champions Leagues with Real Madrid in 1998, 2000 and 2002.
Another very famous Spanish soccer player is Ricardo Zamora. He was a great goalkeeper and was named the best goalkeeper of the year 1958. He played for the national team of Spain only 46 times but he is appreciated as the best goalkeeper that ever played for the Spanish national team.
Ricardo Zamora played for both rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid. The national soccer team of Spain had great goalkeepers in its existence as they had Andoni Zubizarreta or Luis Arconada in the past and they now have Iker Cassilas from Real Madrid and Victor Valdez from Barcelona.
There are great soccer players that play in the Spanish Primera Division. Many people say that Primera Division is the best soccer championship in the world as great players and teams are involved there. For example, nowadays Real Madrid and Barcelona have great players such as Messi, Xavi, Iniesta or Ibrahimovic at Barcelona and Higuain, Kaka, Cristiano Ronaldo or Iker Casillas at Real Madrid.
In time many of the great players of the world played in the Spanish soccer championship. For example the legend Diego Armando Maradona played for Barcelona in the 80s. Everybody thinks that Barcelona is one of the first 10 soccer clubs in the world as many great players play or played in the past for this great club. Alberto Acosta, Marcelo Trobbiani, Nicolas Hernandez or Marcelo Saralegui played for Barcelona in the past. Today, the best soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi, plays for Barcelona.
In conclusion, there are many well known soccer Spanish clubs and many famous players played in the Spanish soccer championship. However, the national team had only a few successes in the international level despite the great quality of the Spanish players.