Héctor Rial, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Héctor Rial

Argentine footballer and manager

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1928

Place of Birth: Pergamino, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1991

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Spain, Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Libra

José Héctor Rial Laguía (14 October 1928 – 24 February 1991) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Real Madrid between 1954 and 1961.
He was part of the team that won five consecutive European Cups.
He played professional football in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, France and Chile.
He was born and raised in Argentina, but represented the Spain national football team on five occasions. Rial started playing professional football in 1947 with San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Primera Division Argentina.
In July 1949, he moved to Colombia to play for Independiente Santa Fe,.
After 2 seasons with the club, he moved to Uruguay to join Nacional where he was part of the Primera División Uruguaya championship winning side of 1952. In 1954 Rial joined Spanish giants Real Madrid, where he played for 7 years, amassing 10 major titles with the team.
In his last season playing for the Spanish club, mostly as a substitute, he was loaned to play for Unión Española in Chile for five months. In 1961 Rial left Real to join Espanyol in Barcelona, but he left the club after a disappointing season, where the club finished 13th of the 16 teams in La Liga. Rial's final season was the 1962-63 campaign with the French club Olympique de Marseille, which finished at the bottom of the league, and he retired at the end of the season.