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History/ 14 Champions and 14 heroes, Rial is the first legend of Real 1956
2024-05-20 12:38:48 / SPORT
Two hundred meters from the San Lorenzo de Almagro field, a boy grew up who spent hours and hours playing football, basketball and challenging himself in athletics with his friends.
His name was Hector Jose Rial Laguia (1928-1991) and no one could have imagined that this sports-obsessed boy would become Real Madrid's first hero in the Champions Cup (today's Champions League), the striker who with two goals his in the "Parc des Princes" on June 13, 1956 laid the first stone of what is today the great empire of world football. It is the first of 14 European titles to be exhibited at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium museum, which is preparing to receive a new sister on June 1. Young Hector played so much sport that he was skinny as a noodle. His trainers were worried and there was one who told him a phrase that Riali would never forget: "Pibe, if you continue like this you will end up in the sanatorium!". His decision was to focus only on football and leave aside basketball, running and dancing.
SAN LORENCO - The classrooms of the "Oto Krause" school were where Riali studied. But his aversion to books was proportionate to his love of the ball. His idols were in that San Lorenzo who came on tour to Spain and wowed Spain during 1946 and 1947. Rene Pontoni stood out above all. From the school team he went to Juventud Marmol, an unregistered club in which each player put 20 cents to rent the Villa Soldati pitch. And from there, to San Lorenzo, more than anything because it was two minutes from his house. How he won everything in the youth ranks, jumped into the first team and toured Spain, the country of his parents (Vigo and Guadalajara). They played against Madrid (4-1) and in Valencia he received as a gift a Christmas tree full of oranges. Adding to the disastrous situation of Argentine football was the mass flight to Colombia, an exodus joined by Alfredo di Stefano.
LETTER OF DI STEFANO - From Colombia he went to Uruguay. And there he received a letter that "made me jump for joy". It was in the handwriting of Alfredo di Stefano. "I was wondering if I would be willing to join Real. I said yes, of course, but the agreement with Nacional Montevideo was needed. My club understood and closed the deal". This is how Rial explained his signing for Madrid. On August 29, 1954 he made his debut for Madrid: 0-6, against Murcia. On September 9, he scored his first goal: 9-1 against Hercules. He wore the white until April 16, 1961. That day he wore the white jersey for what was his tribute game: 7-2 against Anzher. From the adventure in Madrid, he had the best memory in the final of the Champions Cup. "We won it with Vijalonga, the best coach I've ever had. A great coach and a better person," said the player from Buenos Aires. Hector Rial died on April 5, 1991 at the Zarzuela Clinic in Madrid after years of battling an illness he knew was incurable. A five-time European champion was leaving, the player who, with Pako Gento, made Real's left wing hell for their rivals. The hero of the first European Cup, the Prince in the Park of the Princes.
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