Real Madrid's best ever XI ... The third midfielder 😎 | 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 chose the second of three midfielders. Today we’re choosing the third.

Here are the nominees …

3rd – Guti

A true fans’ favourite, Guti played over 500 times for Real Madrid and helped the club to win 15 trophies during his 15-year career.

But it was never about the trophies, or the stats, for Guti, but purely about the pure joy of playing football.

Just a cursory glance of some of his finest moments on Youtube will give you some idea as to why he was dubbed ‘the assist king’ in Spain.

2nd – Luis Figo

It would be very easy to boil Luis Figo’s Real Madrid career down to *that* incident, but the Portugal international was much more than just ‘the man who had a pig’s head thrown at him’.

Figo joined Los Blancos from bitter rivals Barcelona in 2000 and at the time was the reigning Ballon d’Or winner. The mercurial midfielder would go on to win two LaLiga titles and a Champions League at Santiago Bernabéu, as well as Fifa World Player of the Year in 2001.

And the winner is … Paco Gento

The man with arguably the greatest CV in the history of football.

Fracisco Gento was a lynchpin of the first great Real Madrid side of the 1950s, winning a truly astonishing six European Cups – still a record – and amassing over 500 appearances for his beloved Los Blancos.

Known as The Gale of the Cantabrian Sea for the way he tormented defenders, Gento was truly a one-of-a-kind.

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

Check back tomorrow when we will be choosing the first … forward!