Real Madrid's best ever XI ... The first forward 💥 | OneFootball

With the football on hold at the moment, we’ve been thinking about who gets in Real Madrid’s all-time XI.

Yesterday we completed our midfield. Today we’re choosing the first of our front three.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Emilio Butragueño

It says something to just how amazing Real Madrid’s roll call of players has been over the years that Emilio Butragueño doesn’t get in their best ever XI.

The Madrid youth teamer spent a total of 16 years at the club where he scored 132 goals.

Known as El Buitre, he was a huge part of Real Madrid’s resurgence in the mid-1980s and helped the club win five-straight LaLiga titles.

2nd – Raúl

Before Cristiano Ronaldo came along, Raul was Real Madrid’s leading goalscorer of all-time with 322 goals and is still the player with the most appearances in club history.

A true goalscorer who could find half a yard inside a phone box, Raul was a totemic figure for Los Blancos, helping the club to three Champions League titles and six LaLiga trophies.

Any other club in world football would have him in their best XI.

And the winner is … Alfredo di Stefano

Real Madrid’s greatest ever player and in the conversation for the very best of all-time.

Alfredo di Stefano was, according to both Eusebio and Sir Alex Ferguson “the most complete footballer of all-time” and helped Los Blancos become the club they are today.

He scored, quite ridiculously, in five straight European Cup finals including a hat-trick in 1960 as Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in one of the great performances ever.

Over 10 years he scored 216 league goals for Madrid, a club record that stood for over 40 years.

Here’s how the team is looking so far …

GK:Iker Casillas RB: Michel Salgado LB: Roberto Carlos CB: Fernando Hierro CB: Sergio Ramos CM: Pirri CM: Amancio Amaro CM: Paco Gento FW: Alfredo di Stefano

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing the second forward!