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Historic player of Real Madrid Football Club, a club in which he developed almost all of his sports career and in which he reached his greatest hits and world recognitions. [ 2 ] He is remembered as one of the most vertical and fast players of his time. In December 2015 he was appointed honorary president of the Madrid Club, a position he held until his death. [ 3 ] \u200b At the time of his withdrawal he was the third top scorer in the history of Real Madrid C. F. – where he militated eighteen seasons – only surpassed by his former teammates Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano and Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s, being all members of the remembered \u00abMadrid de di St\u00e9fano\u00bb or \u00abMadrid of the five European Cups,\u201d said UEFA as one of the best teams in history. [ 4 ] It was the same way considered one of the best players of the century xx According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), being also the only Spanish birth included in said list of fifty players. [ 5 ] Not surprisingly, he holds the record of being the player who has conquered the most European drinks with six – current UEFA Champions League – and the one with the most Spanish League Championship titles conquered with twelve. [ 6 ] \u200b [ 7 ] To the aforementioned Palmares added another intercontinental cup that accredited the club as the best in the world of yure . He was absolute international with the Spanish team in 43 games. He participated in two world cups, in the 1962 Chilean edition and in England 1966, and was part of the team that conquered the first European Cup in Spain, current Eurocup, in the 1964 edition. In 1996 the Government of Cantabria granted the gold medal to merit in Cantabrian sport. In addition, he is a favorite son of El Astillero, where he has dedicated the name of a street. He has also received two gold medals to sports merit, La Cruz de Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica, Cisneros Medal of the city of Madrid and the gold and brilliant badges of Racing de Santander and Real Madrid Football Club. [ 8 ] \u200b Within his family life, he highlights the dedication of this to the world of sport, where his father, who was a player of the Guarnizo Cultural of his hometown, would see how his offspring also dedicated themselves to the practice of football, where Paco’s brothers, Julio and To\u00f1\u00edn, came to play in the First Division, [ 9 ] \u200b , [ ten ] And especially in Racing de Santander. To\u00f1\u00edn managed to share costumes with his brother Paco at Real Madrid in the 1961-62 season, although Julio belonged to A. D. Plus Ultra, the first subsidiary of Real Madrid C. F., and the three played together only once in a friendly match against F. C. Z\u00fcrich in 1959. [ 11 ] \u200bThe family saga would be continued with its football nephews Julio and Paco Llorente, [ twelfth ] The basketballists Jos\u00e9 Luis and To\u00f1\u00edn Llorente, all linked to the different sports sections of Real Madrid Soccer Club. A fourth generation of athletes in the Gento-Llorente family is composed of Marcos Llorente, son of Paco Llorente, footballer, and the basketballists Sergio Llorente and Juan Llorente, children of Jos\u00e9 Luis Llorente. Due to its special impact, goals, achievements and trajectory, it was declared Dean of Football by the FIFA of the Football Hall of Fame in 2017. [ 13 ] \u200b [ 14 ] \u200b Trajectory [ To edit ] Beginnings in his native Cantabria [ To edit ] He was born in 1933 in the Cantabrian town of Guarnizo, belonging to the municipality of El Astillero. Son of a truck driver, he left the studies at fourteen to help his father and take care of the cows they had in a small farm. He began playing at the age of 15, being a cadet in the S. D. Nueva Monta\u00f1a in 1948, a club where he combined football with athletics, mercy to which he would acquire the speed that would make him famous in the future, with the illusion of playing in the R\u00e1cing de Santander. [ 2 ] \u200b Subsequently, it goes to the first regional category of Cantabria, signing for the El Astillero Club Union, and debuts in the third division of Spain in the Rayo Cantabria Sports Society, which at that time performed the functions of Real Santander’s filial team, current Real Real Racing Club de Santander. [ 8 ] This, who had managed to settle in the First Division of Spain and in which he finally arrives fulfilling one of his dreams as a child, [ 2 ] In the 1952-53 season that would play only ten league games in which he scored two goals, for the age of 20 years to join the discipline of Real Madrid Soccer Club under the mandate of President Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. [ 2 ] \u200b , [ 8 ] \u200b Splendor and successes at Real Madrid [ To edit ]  After debuting in the First Division on February 22, 1953 in front of the Barcelona Soccer Club in the old Sport Fields, he joined the White Club in the 1953-54 season, and in it he would remain for 18 years, after which he would withdraw from The practice of professional football and began his career as a technician, where he would train among other teams the Castilla C. F., first subsidiary of the White Club, and its lower categories. [ 2 ] \u200b With the Madrid team he would get twelve national league championships (tournament record), the first in his year of debut. This title was the first league won by the club in 20 years. [ 8 ] He was part of the one that has been considered one of the best strikers of all time in the history of football, along with the Hungarian Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s, the Frenchman Raymond Kopa and the Hispanic-Argentines Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano and H\u00e9ctor Rial. With these players he achieved the feat not yet matched to conquer five consecutive European glasses, corresponding to the first five editions of the tournament, in the 1955-56, 1956-57, 1957-58, 1958-59 and 1959-60. To which one more would happen in the 1965-66 season, in the so-called “Madrid of the Yey\u00e9”, mostly formed by national players. Which served him to become the only player in history who has won six European glasses, [ 15 ] The most prestigious trophy at the club level in Europe, and change the course of the entity, to become the dominating team of Spain and Europe. He would also add two Spanish Cup titles, in addition to being crowned as the first world champion in history by conquering a new trophy, the Intercontinental Cup in 1960, played between the champions of Europe and South America that also won in its first edition, where it would mark a Gol in the 5-1 global victory against Club Atl\u00e9tico Pe\u00f1arol de Uruguay. [ 16 ] Until April 30, 2022, he was the player who had the most titles in the history of Real Madrid, at which time he was surpassed by Marcelo Vieira. [ 17 ] \u200b It was considered the fastest end of all time by various media and colleagues, [ 2 ] As stated, for example, a defender of the English team Manchester United Football Club after facing him: [ 8 ] \u200b “Gento runs a lot, but the worst is not how it runs, the worst is how he stops.” His speed would lead to even his teammates, who suffered to follow the rhythm of the Cantabrian, until H\u00e9ctor Rial, a companion in the club, would instruct him to get a better benefit from his skills. [ 8 ] \u200b National selection [ To edit ] He played 44 games with the National Team of Spain, of which one with Spain “B”, and became part of the world team that faced the English team in 1963 to commemorate the centenary of the England Football Federation ( FA). He was also an integral part of the Spanish team squad that participated in the final phase of the 1964 football Eurocup, and although he did not play in it (he played matches corresponding to the qualifying phase, his goal against the National Team being final of Ireland del Norte, in the second leg of the round of 16 played in Belfast), for having been an integral part of that squad presented in the final phase of the Annex Tournament: Teams Participating in the Euro 1964 to the Union of European Soccer Associations (UEFA) With Spain he managed to score a total of five goals, and added a total of 23 wins, 8 draws and 12 losses. His debut occurred on May 18, 1955 in a friendly against the selection of England that concluded with one, at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium in Madrid (May 18, 1955). His last game was Spain 6, Finland 0 on October 15, 1969 in the line of conception, C\u00e1diz, qualifier for the World Cup in Mexico, 1970. Participations in World Cups [ To edit ] Statistics [ To edit ] Clubs [ To edit ]  Updated data a End of sports career .  Club Div. Season turns on Cups (first) International (2) Total (3) Media scorch Part. Goals Part. Goals Part. Goals Part. Goals Real Santander S. D. Space Space  1st 1952-53 ten 2 4 first – – 14 3 0.21 Real Madrid C. F. Space Space  1st 1953-54 17 – 4 – – – 21 0 0 1954-55 24 6 3 – 2 – 29 6 0.21 1955-56 29 7 6 3 7 first 42 11 0.26 1956-57 27 7 3 – ten 4 40 11 0.28 1957-58 28 7 5 first 6 3 39 11 0.28 1958-59 21 7 4 2 8 first 33 ten 0.30 1959-60 27 14 5 3 6 2 38 19 0.48 1960-61 28 9 8 3 3 2 39 14 0.36 1961-62 25 6 9 4 9 2 43 twelfth 0.28 1962-63 25 7 4 first 2 first thirty first 9 0.29 1963-64 24 twelfth 2 – 9 3 35 15 0.43 1964-65 23 4 3 – 6 5 32 9 0.28 1965-66 28 ten 3 2 9 3 40 15 0.38 1966-67 20 11 5 – 5 – 30 11 0.37 1967-68 24 8 first – 7 5 32 13 0.41 1968-69 26 8 2 first 2 – 30 9 0.30 1969-70 24 3 4 first 3 3 thirty first 7 0.22 1970-71 7 – 2 – 6 – 15 0 0 Total Real Madrid C. F. 427 126 seventy three 21 100 35 600 182 0.30 Total race 437 128 77 22 100 35 614 185 0.30  Fountain: Bdfutbol – Ceroacero – FIFA  Archived June 21, 2012 at Wayback Machine. – WorldFootball – ABC newspaper – Real Madrid (ABC newspaper)  Selections [ To edit ] Selection Season European World Cups (3) Friendly (4) Total Media scorch Part. Goals Part. Goals Part. Goals Part. Goals Space  1954-55 – – – – first – first 0 0 1955-56 – – – – first – first 0 0 1956-57 – – 3 – 2 – 5 0 0 1957-58 – – first – 2 – 3 0 0 (3) Includes data in the Classification of the Eurocup (1954-70).  (4) Includes data in World Cup classification phases (1954-70).  Fountain: Bdfutbol , Ceroacero and FIFA  Archived on December 13, 2014 at Wayback Machine. – WorldFootball  Coach [ To edit ] Palmar\u00e9s and distinctions [ To edit ] National championships [ To edit ] International Championships [ To edit ] The officiality of the small club World Cup in 1956 is not clear. individual distinctions [ To edit ] When he retired from football he had a step through politics. In 1996 the Government of Cantabria granted the gold medal to merit in Cantabrian sport. He is also a favorite son of El Astillero where he has dedicated the name of a street. He has also received the great cross of the Royal Order of Sports Merit (2001), [ 18 ] Two gold medals to sports merit, La Cruz de Isabel la Cat\u00f3lica, Cisneros Medal of the city of Madrid and the gold and brilliant badges of the Racing de Santander and the Real Madrid Football Club where it was also appointed in 2001 ambassador of the ambassador of the ambassador of the Club in Europe. [ 8 ] \u200b , [ 11 ] On September 20, 2015 he received a star on the Paseo de la Fama de Tetu\u00e1n in Santander. [ 19 ] \u200b See also [ To edit ] References [ To edit ] \u2191  \u00abGento dies,\u2018 La Galen del Cant\u00e1brico \u2019\u00bb . AS.com . January 18, 2022 . Retrieved on January 19, 2022 .   \u2191 a  b  c  d  It is  f  Official Page of Real Madrid. \u00abPaco Gento card on the official club page\u00bb . Retrieved on November 8, 2012 .    \u2191  \u00abPaco Gento, new honorary president of Real Madrid\u00bb.  The country . Retrieved on January 6, 2016.  \u2191  Official Page of the UEFA (ed.). \u00abThe greatest teams of all time: Real Madrid 1956-60\u00bb  (in English) . Consulted on March 18, 2018 .   \u2191  “The best world player of the century” . IFFHS.DE . Retrieved on September 16, 2012 .   \u2191  Official Page of the UEFA. “Gento revives his European glasses” . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191  Official Page of the UEFA. “Seederf, near equalizing Maldini and Gento” . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191 a  b  c  d  It is  f  g  Official Racing page of Santander. \u00abPaco Gento card on the official page of Club II\u00bb . Filed from the original June 29, 2012 . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191  Bdfutbol. \u00abGento II file\u00bb . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191  Bdfutbol. \u00abGento III form\u00bb . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191 a  b  Official Page of Real Madrid. “Gento, a continental legend” . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   (broken link available on the Internet Archive; see the record , the first version and the last ).  \u2191  Zero to zero. \u00abFootballers card (Paco Gento)\u00bb . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   \u2191  FIFA Fame Hall (ed.). \u00abInvestigations of the FIFA Fame Hall\u00bb . Filed from the original March 15, 2018 . Consulted on March 18, 2018 .   \u2191  Diario As (ed.). \u00abMadrid boasts in the FIFA Hall of Fame: with Gento there are 12\u00bb . Consulted on March 18, 2018 .   \u2191  Santiago Siguero (December 4, 2007). “Paco Gento, the living record” . Marca.com . Retrieved on June 13, 2012 .   \u2191  Official Page of Real Madrid. \u00abIntercontinental Cup 1960. Real Madrid-Pe\u00f1arol\u00bb . Retrieved on November 9, 2012 .   (broken link available on the Internet Archive; see the record , the first version and the last ).  \u2191  \u00abMarcelo’s historical record: 24 titles with Real Madrid\u00bb . Real Madrid . April 30, 2022.   \u2191  ABC newspaper (ed.). \u00abThe Government of the Great Government Conceals the Great Cross to sports merit to urdangat, geno, sainz, Delgado and Fernandez de Ochoa\u00bb . Consulted on March 29, 2018 .   \u2191  Santander Paseo de la Fama  external links [ To edit ]    .     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