Alfredo di Stefano
He actually started life as an Argentine but later played football for Spain after establishing himself as a
Real Madrid legend. He usually played as a striker but was versatile enough to play anywhere on the pitch.
In the 1950s, Di Stefano won five European Cups on the trot with Real, for whom he scored a total of
216 goals in 282 appearances.
Miguel Indurain
The cyclist from Navarre won the Tour de France five years in a row in the early 1990s – at that time a record.
He seemed more machine than man with a lung capacity of eight litres (most of have about six litres) and a
resting pulse of 29bpm (the average is between 60 and 80bpm).
Rafael Nadal
The young, modest, Majorcan maestro of contemporary Spanish sport is a tennis player. He became the fourth
youngest player to win the French Open title in 2005, a trophy he secured again in the following two years.
Only the mighty Swiss, Roger Federer, keeps him from the world number one spot.
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