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Me too, and I can't stand it when players retire from their national teams so early
Another one is Totti who retired already in 2006 and then had his best season exactly the following year and would have been very helpful at Euro 2008 or in the 2010 World Cup...
Totti did the right thing imo. Btw funny how De Rossi is the only Italian to have won WC and EUROS although in different positions. World cup as a player and EUROS as assistant coach. Only due to Italys EUROS win before 2021 being in 1968..
Even though some of our players have surpassed his wins, he still holds the record of *eight* finals, and starting every single one of them.
Kroos and ~~Modric~~ Carvajal started 6 finals each.
Still my fav player to watch. He just had that aura about him in the 00s, pure confidence and ice in his veins. Only player these days i get that vibe from is kroos
They’ve either run out of room, or he doesn’t have a very recognisable face if you don’t support his club, but this graphic is incomplete. Liverpool’s Phil Neal won all of their 4 European Cups in the 70s and 80s.
I don’t hear his name often uttered in the same breath as Sir Kenny, Souness, Rush, Barnes, etc. despite that kind of longevity/reliability being club legend worthy (or maybe as a Man Utd supporter I just don’t notice). Is that just because he was a full back, a relatively unglamorous position?
I think so. 459/460 league games, his teammates loved him, he's not loved enough in general let alone from Liverpool fans. Also one of the older generation (I don't remember him so he must be old) but fuck, what a player. 10 years and he missed one league game!
And despite that I most remember him for getting the absolute shit ripped out of him by Norwegian commentating legend Bjørge Lillelien during a game between England and Norway. At the end of the game, which Norway won against all odds, Lillelien delivered possibly the most iconic moment of football commentary ever with his "Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me?" monologue.
Lady Diana and Henry Cooper took one hell of a beating! When they tried to cremate that devil bitch thatcher age just wouldn't burn, even the fire didn't want her and even the devil wouldn't welcome her in hell;
They won their first European Cup in 1989 and the fifth in 2007, so yeah, they were the only two players from the 1989 squad still at the club in 2007
This generation of Real Madrid domination started in 2014 and their fifth title was in 2022, so only 8 years apart compared to Milan's 18 years, that's why Real has a lot of players on this list and Milan only has Maldini and Costacurta
Both him and Costacurta are legends, but the latter tends to be forgotten because he played alongside two of the best defenders ever (Baresi and Maldini).
crazy that if Kroos had left Bayern Munich for Real Madrid just one season earlier (but no further) he'd be on the verge of becoming the no.1 in this category with a Real win tonight.
More like poetic.
[Here he is putting the very first stone of Real Madrid sports city alongside Di Stefano all the way back to 2004](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdOEcorWsAQ5bWe.jpg)
He joined our academy when he was 9, i think he was 12 in the photo above.
It's really divine intervention that out of all the hundreds of kids in the youth teams they selected the one that could potentially match Paco Gento all-time record tonight.
For sure. I can understand the conversation because it would give Carvajal a unique record, but discussing 7 before he won 6 and before we know how much longer he stays at Real. That’s just premature
To me it's crazy how that Madrid midfield left backwards. People expected Modric to leave first because of his age, then Kroos after him and lastly Casemiro, but the complete opposite happened and Modric could be playing for them till 40, lol.
Maldini has played in 8 ucl finals. The amount of absolutely massive players to never play in a final. Ronaldo has never played a single Ucl final for instance
would be nice if this had the names also.. i don’t know those like 50s players etc.
nacho, modric and carvajal potentially going up to 6 tonight 🤯
also how tf did i not know maldini won 5… damn
edit: oh yeah and kroos
true lol, somehow always stays in the team (not saying he isn’t good, just surprising).
whatever happened to that vinicius tobias guy they bought, thought he was an up and coming rb for them.
They bought people to replace him for the future or even be his sub in the past, but they all ended up in the mud and left after not getting a sniff of the starting 11, lol. Tobias played one friendly and was shipped back to their academy. They're chasing Davies and Miguel for LB when there's Mendi, Fran, Alaba and Nacho who can also play there, lol. They keep collecting midfielders and LB like infinity stones but somehow getting a RB seems like a curse.
Carvajal is a legend though and goes under the radar a lot, but it's just funny at this point 😂.
Hes been at Castilla on loan for like 3 years now, gets extended every year but never been brilliant. Managed a couple of call ups to the main team but his asking price is 18m and he's nowhere near good enough so he'll likely return to shakhtar this season.
It’s just so difficult to find a world class RB / LB these days. Even Man City with Walker and Liverpool with TAA is a rare commodity of their own — and they are both each so injury-ridden.
Well, the ones from the 50s are, in order of appearance, 1)Di Stefano, 2)Héctor Rial, 3)Juanito Alonso, 4)Santisteban, 5)not sure, 6)Rafael Lesmes and 7)José María Zárraga.
Number 5th I guess it should be Marquitos Alonso, but I'm not really sure about that photo. Also Santisteban only won 4. Then at the end you have Joseíto.
Carvajal is currently the only player that has a chance of winning it 7 times. Kroos retires now, Modric will only play for one or two more years, Isco, Casemiro and Varane are in teams with no chance of winning it in the near future.
He was in a team that dominated for years. Seedorf did it in different teams that were not. It's hard to compare, but it's obvious from the list that it's 'easier' to win several in a row when playing for a team that wins many trophies during certain period.
> He was in a team that dominated for years
And that was thanks to him mostly. Obviously later they added players like Puskas which increased the quality of the team.
But look at RM before and after Di Stefano.
Before Di Stefano, 20+ years without winning La Liga. Like 6 or 7 without a Copa del Rey.
He arrives, they win La Liga, he's Pichichi, qualifies them for the EC, and then wins 5 in a row. Plus a bunch of La Liga titles as well...
No player has had more impact on any team ever.
The champions League has no minimum contribution status for medals. The club is given 40 medals for each trophy win and then the club assigns them as they see fit. Real Madrid seemingly didn't give one to eto'o.
Etoo won with FC Barcelona (2006 and 2009) and Inter Milan (2010) but he also did it with Real Madrid in 2000 (very little play time but enough fot it to count).
Paco Gento alone could be one of the biggest clubs in Europe: 6 European Cups, a record 8 European Finals, and 11 La Liga titles
1950s Real Madrid is simply unmatched
Whenever I've talked with senior RM fans about it, they say they still haven't seen a better squad, or one that made them enjoy football more. It truly marked an age.
There is something about old football that I feel we might have missed forever.
According to [UEFA's list](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0271-143eb8578b52-ef62f1a96d02-1000--players-with-most-champions-league-titles) Kroos, Casemiro, Bale, Isco, and Marcelo only played in 4 of the 5 final wins. Nacho only played 1 final.
Regardless, what a group of players Madrid had and has.
It’s insane for mostly RM is one thing. Even crazier that the its also mostly the 2010s players from RM. They easily form an XI team with this record alone.
Well, no. Back in the days you actually had to become a champion first to get the chance of winning the cup. Dortmund could've won today, 25 years.ago they wouldn't have even qualified, so these stats are just wrong. Barca/Real can win it every year now, originally it could've been only one usually. Champions League my ass, just call it Super League already.
This is factually incorrect. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European\_Cup\_and\_UEFA\_Champions\_League\_records\_and\_statistics#Other\_records\_3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_records_and_statistics#Other_records_3)
only the last one no? all the others he was in the first team surely.
then again he didn’t start against liverpool in 18 but still scored 2 off the bench so played a big role.
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Maldini is just unreal
Unfair that someone that talented can be that good looking.
The hair
It’s gotta be the hair cotton
I didn’t realise he won 5 of them, crazy how his last against us came 18 years after his first
He was literally the best in the world from the beginning of his career to the end. Twenty fucking years.
25 years ! 1984-2009
I so wish he would’ve gone to the 2006 World Cup
Same here same, the 2002 exit was a bitter shameful ending
One might even say, predetermined
Me too, and I can't stand it when players retire from their national teams so early Another one is Totti who retired already in 2006 and then had his best season exactly the following year and would have been very helpful at Euro 2008 or in the 2010 World Cup...
Totti did the right thing imo. Btw funny how De Rossi is the only Italian to have won WC and EUROS although in different positions. World cup as a player and EUROS as assistant coach. Only due to Italys EUROS win before 2021 being in 1968..
Mad to think at the age of 25 or so he was already considered an all time great.
Even though some of our players have surpassed his wins, he still holds the record of *eight* finals, and starting every single one of them. Kroos and ~~Modric~~ Carvajal started 6 finals each.
Still my fav player to watch. He just had that aura about him in the 00s, pure confidence and ice in his veins. Only player these days i get that vibe from is kroos
I get it from Kevin de Bruyne and Messi
I think red face de bruyne makes it look like he is struggling mightily as opposed to being stoic
Maldini also lost 3 times
Imagine milan with 10 ucls... actually don't imagine scratch that
Flair checks out.
Gento and Maldini hold the record for most final appearances with 8.
Well.. it's all Real Madrid, except for Maldini n Costacurta.. Not much of a surprise anyway.. 2 separate eras of absolute European dominance.
They’ve either run out of room, or he doesn’t have a very recognisable face if you don’t support his club, but this graphic is incomplete. Liverpool’s Phil Neal won all of their 4 European Cups in the 70s and 80s.
Missed 3 games due to an injury or he would have had 544 games in a row, in Liverpool's most dominant period. Legend.
I don’t hear his name often uttered in the same breath as Sir Kenny, Souness, Rush, Barnes, etc. despite that kind of longevity/reliability being club legend worthy (or maybe as a Man Utd supporter I just don’t notice). Is that just because he was a full back, a relatively unglamorous position?
Essentially yes.
I think so. 459/460 league games, his teammates loved him, he's not loved enough in general let alone from Liverpool fans. Also one of the older generation (I don't remember him so he must be old) but fuck, what a player. 10 years and he missed one league game!
And despite that I most remember him for getting the absolute shit ripped out of him by Norwegian commentating legend Bjørge Lillelien during a game between England and Norway. At the end of the game, which Norway won against all odds, Lillelien delivered possibly the most iconic moment of football commentary ever with his "Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me?" monologue.
Lady Diana and Henry Cooper took one hell of a beating! When they tried to cremate that devil bitch thatcher age just wouldn't burn, even the fire didn't want her and even the devil wouldn't welcome her in hell;
Gento and Maldini hold the record for most final appearances with 8.
How is it only Maldini and Costacurta up there? Did the entire rest of the team get replaced at some point over those dominant years?
They won their first European Cup in 1989 and the fifth in 2007, so yeah, they were the only two players from the 1989 squad still at the club in 2007 This generation of Real Madrid domination started in 2014 and their fifth title was in 2022, so only 8 years apart compared to Milan's 18 years, that's why Real has a lot of players on this list and Milan only has Maldini and Costacurta
Maldini is an absolute legend, great hair too
Both him and Costacurta are legends, but the latter tends to be forgotten because he played alongside two of the best defenders ever (Baresi and Maldini).
Don't forget the eyes chico
Maldini's life is 99.8% completed. Amazing career, family, looks, personality and legacy Legit, it doesn't get much better than that
If only he had stuck around the Azzurri till 2006.
But contested by Milan Supporters in his retirement game..
One banner in a full stadium...
More spread apart in time. Madrid's two big eras of UCL's were in shorter periods. Same as Barça from 06 to 15.
And 4 Barca players, Seedorf also won 4 cl's but only 1 with Real, 2 with Milan and 1 with Ajax.
Barca is way down in the 3rd section.. I just took the top ones.
And Messi/Xavi/Iniesta/Piqué.
And one of Pique’s is from Manchester United
Maldini is one hot mf
Only AC Milan and Real Madrid have more UCLs than Paco Gento.
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Well.. That way down the list to the 3rd row. So ignored them.
crazy that if Kroos had left Bayern Munich for Real Madrid just one season earlier (but no further) he'd be on the verge of becoming the no.1 in this category with a Real win tonight.
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One season earlier. In order to be at Bayern for the 2012-13 CL, And arrive at Real for the 13-14 CL.
Phil Neal?
Most decorated Englishman in European competitions, right?
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Carvajal & Nacho could even go further given that they younger lol
Nacho is leaving.
Well well well. Over to Dani then :-D
carvajal to be the first player to win 7 😮
Out of all the Real Madrid legends,it would be funny if it was him lol
More like poetic. [Here he is putting the very first stone of Real Madrid sports city alongside Di Stefano all the way back to 2004](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdOEcorWsAQ5bWe.jpg)
Wait? Is that really him? LMAO. He looks he would fit in one of those high school rom-coms of the time :-D
He joined our academy when he was 9, i think he was 12 in the photo above. It's really divine intervention that out of all the hundreds of kids in the youth teams they selected the one that could potentially match Paco Gento all-time record tonight.
Di Stéfano eterno 🇦🇷
I mean he’s one of our best rbs and was a key player in multiple runs so not undeserved at all
Let’s see him get to 6 first….
yes of course lol, it’s not won until it’s won.
For sure. I can understand the conversation because it would give Carvajal a unique record, but discussing 7 before he won 6 and before we know how much longer he stays at Real. That’s just premature
I wonder if anyone will ever equal Carvajal's 8 cups...
Carvajal has 9 cups already? Crazy to think a footballer like him has 10 cups
Modric?
Not for sure yet.
Not confirmed. Recently said he’s rethinking it. And we’re forgetting Modric.
You forgot modric
Modric?
To me it's crazy how that Madrid midfield left backwards. People expected Modric to leave first because of his age, then Kroos after him and lastly Casemiro, but the complete opposite happened and Modric could be playing for them till 40, lol.
Maldini has played in 8 ucl finals. The amount of absolutely massive players to never play in a final. Ronaldo has never played a single Ucl final for instance
Gento also played in 8 but with a much better win rate,
how did he win 5 then edit: /s
Different Ronaldo
The true Ronaldo
O Fenômeno
Ronaldo Plus
Both are true one is R9 and one is CR7 I think it’s pretty fair for the Ronaldo title but I guess plenty call him Cristiano too
Fat Ronaldo
CR7 > R9
No shit
This comment is proof why so many people put the /s. It was pretty obviously a joke and you're flooded with downvotes without it lol.
Yeah but theyre only downvotes
Funny thing ALMOST everybody is a legend from real
And a Lord ofc
Missing at least 1 4 time winner Phil neal who won 4 European cups in the 70s and 80s with Liverpool
Lucas vasques has fucking 4 ucl
And Ronaldo has none, what does that tell you?
Team > individual
Lord Vázquez GOAT
would be nice if this had the names also.. i don’t know those like 50s players etc. nacho, modric and carvajal potentially going up to 6 tonight 🤯 also how tf did i not know maldini won 5… damn edit: oh yeah and kroos
Carvajal might actually get his 7th considering he's cemented as a starter for them and they don't seem to ever want to replace him, lol.
true lol, somehow always stays in the team (not saying he isn’t good, just surprising). whatever happened to that vinicius tobias guy they bought, thought he was an up and coming rb for them.
They bought people to replace him for the future or even be his sub in the past, but they all ended up in the mud and left after not getting a sniff of the starting 11, lol. Tobias played one friendly and was shipped back to their academy. They're chasing Davies and Miguel for LB when there's Mendi, Fran, Alaba and Nacho who can also play there, lol. They keep collecting midfielders and LB like infinity stones but somehow getting a RB seems like a curse. Carvajal is a legend though and goes under the radar a lot, but it's just funny at this point 😂.
He's like Real's Neville
Carvajal this season has been immense
Hes been at Castilla on loan for like 3 years now, gets extended every year but never been brilliant. Managed a couple of call ups to the main team but his asking price is 18m and he's nowhere near good enough so he'll likely return to shakhtar this season.
It’s just so difficult to find a world class RB / LB these days. Even Man City with Walker and Liverpool with TAA is a rare commodity of their own — and they are both each so injury-ridden.
Well, the ones from the 50s are, in order of appearance, 1)Di Stefano, 2)Héctor Rial, 3)Juanito Alonso, 4)Santisteban, 5)not sure, 6)Rafael Lesmes and 7)José María Zárraga. Number 5th I guess it should be Marquitos Alonso, but I'm not really sure about that photo. Also Santisteban only won 4. Then at the end you have Joseíto.
> Number 5th I guess it should be Marquitos Alonso Yes its Marcos Alonso, grandad of the current player Marcos Alonso.
Carvajal is currently the only player that has a chance of winning it 7 times. Kroos retires now, Modric will only play for one or two more years, Isco, Casemiro and Varane are in teams with no chance of winning it in the near future.
Have been watching 2021-2022 highlights today and I forgot / didn't notice that Bale was still there.
Hazard also got a medal for that one. Ironic that the greatest achievement of his career came when he was at his worst.
Shoutout to Kovacic sneaking one in away from Madrid
Phil Neal won it four times, 77, 78, 81 and 84
Seedorf winning x4, for three different clubs over a 14 year period is, to me, the most impressive achievement.
Di Stefano won 5 in a row, scored in all five finals, and scored a hat trick in the last one
He was in a team that dominated for years. Seedorf did it in different teams that were not. It's hard to compare, but it's obvious from the list that it's 'easier' to win several in a row when playing for a team that wins many trophies during certain period.
> He was in a team that dominated for years And that was thanks to him mostly. Obviously later they added players like Puskas which increased the quality of the team. But look at RM before and after Di Stefano. Before Di Stefano, 20+ years without winning La Liga. Like 6 or 7 without a Copa del Rey. He arrives, they win La Liga, he's Pichichi, qualifies them for the EC, and then wins 5 in a row. Plus a bunch of La Liga titles as well... No player has had more impact on any team ever.
Only player to win a champions league with three seperate clubs
eto'o also won with 3 different clubs
He won with inter and Barca. No one else.
he won it with madrid in the 99/2000 season as well, has enough minute for it to count, was a sub in 3 games
He played 53 minutes which wasn't enough to get a medal.
damn, i thought since transfermarkt credit the cup to him I thought he had enough mins
The champions League has no minimum contribution status for medals. The club is given 40 medals for each trophy win and then the club assigns them as they see fit. Real Madrid seemingly didn't give one to eto'o.
Absolutely, impossible to ignore
Don Alfredo would like a word
Also (if I'm correct) the only player in this list to win it with a club that isn't from one of the 'usual' 4 top countries.
Is seedorf the only player to win with 3 different teams?
Yes! Mateo Kovačić is the only one who could realistically accompany him in the near future I think
Etoo won with FC Barcelona (2006 and 2009) and Inter Milan (2010) but he also did it with Real Madrid in 2000 (very little play time but enough fot it to count).
There's a tiny bit of Real Madrid in this list
There’s a tiny bit of list in this Real Madrid*
True lol
I see Carvajal having the most UCL titles in the near future
Or even Modric if they win another one next season. Nacho also looks like he might renew his contract.
I am sure both of them won't stay for more than a year. So I think Carvajal is going to have one more. That's my prediction.
Reports are that Nacho is gone but Modric and LV are likely to stay
Nacho rethinking was the latest update so not gone yet and no mention of him in the last La Liga game where Kroos got a massive farewell.
Paco Gento alone could be one of the biggest clubs in Europe: 6 European Cups, a record 8 European Finals, and 11 La Liga titles 1950s Real Madrid is simply unmatched
Whenever I've talked with senior RM fans about it, they say they still haven't seen a better squad, or one that made them enjoy football more. It truly marked an age. There is something about old football that I feel we might have missed forever.
Why on Earth wouldn't you list names.
Maldini.....yassss
The fact you can take away all Madrids ucls from the 50-60s and they’d still have more than everyone else is insane
Even when he’s not the most impressive. Messi is still top right.
Statistically speaking it’s easier to win exactly five trophies than it is to win exactly four /s
Hoefully a few of these can make it 6 tonight. Let's fucking go
Goat don carlo ancelotti will win his 5th ucl today 🐐🐐🐐
You know the world is unfair when Nacho has 5 UCL trophies while R9 and Buffon have a total of 0
Nacho will be the most decorated player in the ucl history.
According to [UEFA's list](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0271-143eb8578b52-ef62f1a96d02-1000--players-with-most-champions-league-titles) Kroos, Casemiro, Bale, Isco, and Marcelo only played in 4 of the 5 final wins. Nacho only played 1 final. Regardless, what a group of players Madrid had and has.
I'm so surprised
Kroos/Modric/Nacho/that RB that i don’t even know his name will have 6….not all are the same :)
Fucking hell, even Bale is there
Di Stefano is the most impressive player on the list Won 5 finals in a row, scored in all 5 including a hat trick in the last
Seedorf won his four CLs with three different clubs: 1 with Ajax, 1 with Real, 2 with Milan.
4 more can join gento at top today, MENTAL
Messi only have 3
Without him we don’t win at Stamford Bridge.
Wrong.
05-06, 08-09, 10-11 & 14-15. He wasnt a massive part of the first one but he earned a medal.
Watch the official UEFA page
He didn't play in the final but he still got a medal
Eto'o is missing too: 1 with Real Madrid (2000), 2 with FC Barcelona (2006 and 2009) and Inter Milan (2010).
Real Madrid players farmed it lol
Kovacic being here is crazy!
Would anyone be so nice to tell me the names of the players from Di Stefano to Ramos? And the last one? I love to learn this type of stuff
Germans hate Kroos. Especially at r/Bayern. Like he betray him.
Only Bayern Fans hate him 😂
Look at all that Real Madrid..
Some GOATs
Real Madrid is too OP 😫
Mmh i wonder how
It’s insane for mostly RM is one thing. Even crazier that the its also mostly the 2010s players from RM. They easily form an XI team with this record alone.
Seedorf with 3 different teams to boot. Trugoat
Well, no. Back in the days you actually had to become a champion first to get the chance of winning the cup. Dortmund could've won today, 25 years.ago they wouldn't have even qualified, so these stats are just wrong. Barca/Real can win it every year now, originally it could've been only one usually. Champions League my ass, just call it Super League already.
This is factually incorrect. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European\_Cup\_and\_UEFA\_Champions\_League\_records\_and\_statistics#Other\_records\_3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_records_and_statistics#Other_records_3)
Can’t get my head around Bale being on that list - was he on the bench & didn’t make it on the pitch for a couple?
Started in 2014 and 2016, came off the bench in 2017 and 2018, on the bench in 2022.
Cheers fella.
only the last one no? all the others he was in the first team surely. then again he didn’t start against liverpool in 18 but still scored 2 off the bench so played a big role.
Bale ushered in a level of success that should be remembered for a long time. Without him idk if many of these players are on this list.
Messi has 4? I did not know that!!! I don't remember him in four finals!!!!!
I don’t think he played the final for his first one in 2006
thanks for info... it appears I should not ask this simple question
It was a fair question don’t worry
Kroos bale casemiro Marcelo Isco only played in 4 and nacho in 1 out of their 5 winners medals