José Héctor Rial Laguía (14 October 1928 – 24 February 1991) was a football

Football (soccer)

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 player from Argentina

Argentina

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 who played for Real Madrid

Real Madrid

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 between 1954 and 1961. He was part of the team that won five consecutive European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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s. He played professional football in Argentina

Argentina

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, Colombia

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, Uruguay

Uruguay

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, Spain

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, France

France

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 and Chile

Chile

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 as well as representing the Spain national football team

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 on five occasions.

Rial started playing professional football in 1947 with San Lorenzo de Almagro

Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro

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 in the Primera Division Argentina

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. In 1949 he moved to Colombia to play for Independiente de Santa Fe. After 2 seasons with the club, he moved to Uruguay to join Nacional

Club Nacional de Football

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 where he was part of the Primera División Uruguaya

Primera División Uruguaya

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 championship winning side of 1952.

In 1954 Rial joined Spanish giants Real Madrid

Real Madrid

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, where he played for 7 years, amassing 10 major titles with the team.

In 1961 Rial left Real to join Espanyol

RCD Espanyol

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 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, but he left the club after a disappointing season, where the club finished 13th of the 16 teams in La Liga

La Liga

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. The next season, Rial joined the French club Olympique de Marseille

Olympique de Marseille

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, which finished at the bottom of the league, prompting Rial's return to South America.

Rial's final season was the 1964 campaign with Unión Española

Unión Española

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 in Chile. The club finished 6th in the league, and he retired at the end of the season.

Honours

Nacional

Club Nacional de Football

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 1 Primera División Uruguaya

Primera División Uruguaya

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: 1952 Real Madrid

Real Madrid

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...

 5 European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 Real Madrid

Real Madrid

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...

 1 Intercontinental Cup

Intercontinental Cup (football)

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: 1960 Real Madrid

Real Madrid

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la...

 4 Spanish League Championship

La Liga

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: 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	18 May 1955	Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...		1-1	Draw	Friendly
Correct as of 4 September 2010

External links

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