Francisco Gento was one of the most successful footballers in club football and played for a dominant Real Madrid team in the 1950s. He won 6 UEFA Champions League titles and 12 La Liga titles for Real. Gento played as a left winger and scored a lot of goals apart from creating them. He had great ball skills and a good shot on him.
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Gento played alongside great players like Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas for Real and made them the strongest club in the world. He played for Real Madrid from 1953 to 1971 and scored 180 goals in 620 matches in his entire club career.
He scored 5 goals in 43 matches for the Spanish national team and was selected among the top 100 footballers of all time by FIFA. He retired from football in 1971 and remains one of the most successful and decorated Spanish footballers of all time.
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