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The Alfredo Di Stéfano Trophy (Spanish: Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano) is an annual association football award presented by Spanish sports newspaper Marca to the best footballer of La Liga. The award is named after former Real Madrid player Alfredo Di Stéfano .
The viewers and readers voted Michel Platini as the best, but the France Football jury and former Ballon d'Or winners chose Alfredo Di Stéfano. [7] [8] For many years, his Super Ballon d'Or trophy was on display at the Real Madrid museum at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, [3] but in 2021, Di Stéfano's children auctioned off his memorabilia. [9]
The 1957 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Alfredo Di Stéfano on 17 December 1957. [ 1 ] Rankings
The 1959 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Alfredo Di Stéfano on 15 December 1959. [1] It was the second time that Di Stéfano won the award.
Born in Barracas, a neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Di Stéfano was the son of Alfredo Di Stéfano, a first-generation Italian Argentine (his father Michele emigrated to Argentina from Capri in the 19th century), and Eulalia Laulhé Gilmont, an Argentine woman of French and Irish descent with her relatives being from Swinford, County Mayo.
Alfredo Di Stéfano: Real Madrid Spain [a] 44 3: Raymond Kopa: Reims Real Madrid France: 33 4: Ferenc Puskás: Budapest Honvéd Hungary: 32 5: Lev Yashin: Dynamo Moscow Soviet Union: 19 6: József Bozsik: Budapest Honvéd Hungary: 15 7: Ernst Ocwirk: Austria Wien Sampdoria Austria: 9 8: Sándor Kocsis: Budapest Honvéd Hungary: 6 9: Thadée ...
Also, Alfredo Di Stéfano won the top scorer trophy with 31 goals. Initially, due to the rule of not being a current league champion, the club would not compete in the continental tournament. However, chairman Santiago Bernabéu, also an organizer of the competition, allowed their entry as holders; the squad won its second consecutive European ...
Two weeks later, on 7 June 1967, Celtic played Real Madrid in a testimonial match for the now retired Alfredo Di Stefano. In front of over 100,000 fans at the Bernabéu Stadium, the sides engaged in a keenly fought contest which saw Bertie Auld and Real Madrid's Amancio sent off. Di Stefano played for the first 15 minutes, but it was Jimmy ...