David Beckham

David Robert Joseph Beckham born 2 May 1975, is an English Professional footballer who currently plays for Real Madrid and the England National football team. Beckham was named as a member of Pele's FIFA 100.In addition to his success on the pitch, Beckham has been recognized by Time magazine as one of 2004's Time's 100 (Heroes & Icons),as well as an elite global advertising brand.

Beckham is the fifth most capped English player of all time, has twice been the runner up in the FIFA World player of the year in 1999 and 2001 and in addition to being the only Englishman to score in three different World Cup, is also the fifth player in World Cup history to score twice from direct free kicks. He was captain of the English national team from 15 Nov 2000 to 2 July 2006.

Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his debut first-team appearance in 1992, at the age of 17. While with Manchester United he played a key role in their dominance of the FA Premier league in the 1990's and early 2000's, being pivotal in accomplishing The Treble of the League,FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League in 1999. He left the club to become only the third Englishman to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, after Cunningham and Macca.

In 2006, after England's quarter-final exit at the World Cup in Germany, he stood down as captain.Beckham was dropped from the England National squad selected by coach Steve Mc. Laren on 11 August 2006,an exile that lasted nine international games, until 26 May 2007, when McClaren named him as one of the England squad for upcoming games against Brazil and Estonia.

On 10 Jan 2007 Real Madrid Sporting Director Mijatovic announced Beckham would leave the club when his contract expires in June 2007. On 11 Jan 2007, Beckham agreed to a move to the Major League Soccer (MLS) team Los Angeles Galaxy on a five year contract commencing on 1 July 2007, after his current deal with Real Madrid expires.

Peluang Real Madrid Di LA LIGA

Secara tidak terduga kini Madrid berada di puncak klasemen... :-)
Walaupun pada awal dan di tengah perjalanan banyak masalah yang menimpa kubu Madrid namun tim ini berhasil menunjukkan kredibilitas nya sebagai Los Galacticos sejati bukan hanya pondok pemain bintang untuk mencari gaji besar ^_^

Berbagai masalah mulai dari pucuk pimpinan, manager sampai pada pemain muncul di Madrid bagaikan gosip2 para selebritis dunia yang membuat konsentrasi para suporter berada pada kehidupan dari semua anggota tim dan bukan pada permainan di lapangan.

Bahkan sampai setengah musim pertama tidak ada yang meramalkan Madrid berada di posisi puncak klasemen yang pada saat itu digenggam erat oleh musuh bebuyutan nya Barcelona.

Tapi sebagai fans sejati Real Madrid marilah qt semua berdoa agar posisi puncak klasemen tetap dipegang Madrid sampai akhir musim dan menobatkan Capello sebagai pelatih yang mempunyai keajaiban ( Selalu membawa tim nya juara pada musim pertama kepelatihan ).

Bravo Los Galacticos !!!!

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Rutgerus Johannes Martinius van Nistelrooy (originally spelled Van Nistelroooij) born 1 July , 1976 in Oss, North Brabant). He is a Dutch Footballer who plays in the position of centre forward for Real Madrid. He has previously starred for Dutch National Team and Manchester United, where he holds the record for being the club's top scorer in the European Cup.

For the Netherlands, Ruud van Nistelrooy has a return of more than a goal every other game, scoring 28 times in 54 appearances. For Manchester United he scored 150 goals in 219 games. Spanning his time at PSV and Manchester United, Van Nistelrooy has scored 43 goals in 54 UEFA Champions league matches, an enviable return for any striker.

However, despite being the English Premiership’s second highest scorer with 21 goals in the 2005-2006 season, Van Nistelrooy had to settle for a place on the substitutes’ bench after being dropped for the Carling cup final against Wigan. He scored against West Ham but was dropped to the bench again for the next match against Bolton. He did come on as a second half substitute, though, and scored the winner in a 2–1 victory. It was his 150th and final goal for Manchester United. During the World Cup there was considerable doubt as to whether Van Nistelrooy would continue to be a United player, with strong rumours that he might go to Germany or Spain.On 14 July it was confirmed that he wanted to leave the club.On 26 July he passed a medical test at Real Madrid. on his return to the first team on 29 March

Real Madrid announced that van Nistelrooy was transferring to Real, His transfer fee was reported to be €15 million (£10.3 m), and he signed a 3-year contract with the club on 28 July. In his second match in the LA Liga, van Nistelrooy scored a hat-trick. He scored 2 goals on a Real Madrid 5-1 win over Dynamo Kiev in the first group stage of the Uefa Champion League. During classic match on 22 October 2006, Van Nistelrooy scored 7 minutes into the second half to help defeat league champions Barcelona.On 12 November 2006 , he scored all four of Real Madrid's goals in a 4-1 win against Osasuba. Van Nistelrooy also scored on 10 February 2007, against Real Sociedad in a 2-1 win. And on 10 March 2007, van Nistelrooy scored 2 goals against Barcelona, increasing his tally against Barcelona to 3 goals in 2 games. On April 21 he scored a volley in a match against Valencia where Real Madrid won 2-1. Furthermore, on May 6, he scored 2 out of the 3 goals of his team against Sevilla. In the next match, against Espanyol, Real Madrid were trailing 0-2 when van Nistelrooy scored Real Madrid's opener and they won 4-3. against newly promoted Levante

Van Nistelrooy is top goal scorer in LA Liga with 22 goals, surpassing Milito from Zaragoza and Kanoute from Sevilla with 20 goals apiece.

Robinho

Robson de Souza (born 25 January , 1984 in Sao Vicente, Brazil), nicknamed Robinho (Little Robson), is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Real Madrid and the Brazillian National Team. Robinho has earned praise for his expert use of the pedalada and field speed.

Born in Parque Bitaru, a poor neighborhood of São Vicente, he is from African Descent. He begun playing football (soccer) early. At six, he was signed to the Beira-Mar, a local escolinha. He and his team and they took the championship in his first year. Whilst playing at the Beira-Mar, Robinho was claimed to look just like his teammate Marcelo, and the spanish fans called them "the twins".

In 1993, at the age of nine, Robinho drew attention by scoring 73 goals for the Portuários futsal team. Robinho joined the Santos youth program, which at the time was overseen by Brazilian football legend Pele. Pelé brought Robinho into the Santos FC youth dorms, where he received his first regular schedule of three meals a day.He said a kid named Leo was the best soccer player ever!

In 2002, Robinho was promoted to the Santos first team. His work at the front helped them win the Brazillian National Championship in 2002 and 2004, as well as place second to Boca Juniors in the 2003 Copa Libertadores. Robinho's contributions to Santos attracted a great deal of attention from the top European football clubs.

Robinho's skill drew the offers of several European clubs, but it took the kidnapping of his mother in late 2004 to convince him to leave. On 31 July, 2005 , Robinho signed with Real Madrid for five years at $30 million and joined his fellow Brazilian internationals Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Julio Baptista. He made his LA Liga debut on 28 August in a 2-1 victory against Cádiz as a second half substitute for Thomas Gravesen. In his first season, Robinho scored eight goals, but the arrival of Jose Antonio Reyes has brought the length of Robinho's stay into question. One of his most recent performances though, in the "El Clásico" against Barcelona, which he earned the Man Of The Match award may have impressed Fabio Capello.

Meanwhile, Robinho backed again that decision saying he'd like to triumph in Real Madrid, fulfill his contract and expand it if possible.

Miguel Ángel Salgado Fernández

Miguel Ángel Salgado Fernández was born 22 October, 1975 in As Neves, Galicia. He is a Spanish Footballer, who currently plays in the right defender position for Real Madrid at Spain. He is known for his combative tackling and attacking play.

He began his career in 1994, playing his hometown team, Celta Vigo. In 1999, Salgado was signed by Real Madrid for €11,000,000. Salgado helped Real lift the Champions League trophy in both 2000 and 2002, as well as two La Liga titles and, in 2002, the Intercontinental Cup.

Salgado has been capped 53 times for Spain and was part of their EURO 2000 and World Cup 2006 squads, but missed out on the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Salgado is also part of the Galician Team.

Honours

• LA Liga : 2001 , 2003
  
• Champions League : 2000 , 2002
• Intercontinental Cup : 2002
• European Super Cup : 2002

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste was one of the single most important men in Real Madrid's history, and the one to whom credit can be given for transforming Real Madrid from the second most successful club in Madrid into the most successful in both Spain and Europe.

Born in Almansa (Albacete) , the 8th of June, 1895, Bernabéu's family moved to Madrid when he was very young, and Bernabéu himself joined the Real Madrid junior ranks in 1909 at age 14, after being a regular spectator at their matches for years.

In 1912 when the club moved to its new location on O'Donnell street, Bernabéu was one of the volunteers who helped lay the pitch and paint the fences. He went on to join the first team at age 17 and recorded over 1200 goals as a striker, as well as wearing the captain's armband for years, before retiring as a player in 1927. He continued to be associated with the club until 1935 , first as a director, before becoming assistant manager and finally manager of the first team. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil war in 1936 , professional football ceased to be played in Spain. During the war he fought as a soldier for the nationalists under Franco and was decorated for good style.

When the war ended and football began again in Spain, Bernabéu found at Real Madrid what was, to all intents and purposes, a dead club. The, or administration (several had been killed or disappeared during the war) and even some of the club's trophies from their early years had been stolen. What's more, at the time the establishment club was Atletico Madrid (re-named Atlético Aviación, the Air-Force's team) and Real Madrid did not receive any government help in rebuilding. Bernabéu proceeded to spend the next several months finding and contacting former players, directors, and club members, eventually restructuring the club.

In 1943, after fan violence following a Real Madrid victory over Barcelona the government imposed a salomonic solution, forcing the Presidents of both clubs to resign, and Bernabéu was elected President of Real Madrid - a position he would occupy until his death on June 2, 1978 .

Success did not come immediately, however. The club was still in very poor shape and other clubs, such as the aforementioned Atlético, Barcelona, and Atletico Bilbao had very strong teams. In order to change this, Bernabéu began to implant his ideas, which can be described with hindsight as nothing short of visionary.

He restructured the club at all levels, in what would become the normal operating structure of professional clubs in the future, giving every section and level of the club independent technical teams and recruiting people who were ambitious and visionary in their own right, such as Raimundo Saporta.

He then endevoured to build what would become the stadium that today bears his name, at the time the largest stadium in all of Europe, it was remarked as being "too much of a stadium for so little a club". The Ciudad Deportiva, built so that the players could train without destroying the stadium's pitch, was also constructed during these years. Finally, he embarked upon an ambitious strategy of signing world-class players from abroad, the most prominent of them being Alfredo Di Stefano, and built the world's first truly multinational side. During Bernabéu's presidency many of Real Madrid's most legendary names played for the club.

In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed by the L'Equippe journalist Gabriel Hanot and building upon the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy), Bernabéu met in the Ambassador Hotel in Paris with Bedrignan and Gustas Sebez and created what today is known as the Champions League. Under the administration of UEFA, it is the world's premier club tournament.

Before dying, Bernabéu had been the club's president for 35 years, during which he won 1 Intercontinental Cup , 6 European Cups, 16 League titles, and 6 Spanish Cups. He died in 1978, while the World Cup was being played in Argentina. In his honor FIFA decreed three days of mourning during the tournament.

In 2002 he was posthumously awarded FIFA's Order of Merit.