José Héctor Rial Laguía (14 October 1928 – 24 February 1991) was a

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who played as a forward for

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between 1954 and 1961, and was part of the team that won five consecutive

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s. He played professional football in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, France and Chile. He was born and raised in Argentina, but represented the Spain national team on five occasions. Rial started playing professional football in 1947 with

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in the Primera Division Argentina. In July 1949, he moved to Colombia to play for

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. After two seasons with the club, he moved to Uruguay to join

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where he was part of the

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-winning side of 1952. In 1954 Rial joined Spanish giants Real Madrid, where he played for seven years, amassing ten major titles with the team. In his last season playing for the club, mostly as a substitute, he was loaned to play for

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in Chile for five months. In 1961, Rial left

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to join Espanyol in

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, but he left the club after a disappointing season, where the club finished 13th of the 16 teams in

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. Rial's final season was the 1962–63 campaign with the French club

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, which finished at the bottom of the league, and he retired at the end of the season.

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Nacional *

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: 1952 Real Madrid *

: 1955, 1957, 1958, 1961 *

: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 * Intercontinental Cup: 1960 *

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: 1955, 1957

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