The Yé-yé team was the name given to the generation of all-Spanish

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players that dominated Spanish football in the 1960s."Real Madrid History: 1961-1970"
RealMadrid.com. Retrieved 1 October 2015 The team was captained by the veteran player

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who won the

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five times with Alfredo Di Stefano in the 1950s. He would lead a group of younger players that included José Araquistáin, Pachín, Pedro de Felipe, Manuel Sanchís,

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, Ignacio Zoco, Fernando Serena, Amancio Amaro, Ramón Grosso and Manuel Velázquez. This group of younger players sometimes were considered to be hippies because they wore longer hair than the previous generation. The name "Yé-yé" came from the "Yeah, yeah, yeah" chorus in

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' song "

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" after four members of the team posed for '' Marca'' impersonating the Beatles. "Yé-yé" was also how youngsters were called in Spain in the sixties when

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was catching on around the world, as well as a musical style popular in Spain in that decade. The transformation of the team began in

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when Miguel Muñoz became the coach of

. As a player, he captained Real Madrid as they won the European Cup in

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and

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. The team he played with was built with the best foreign talents Real Madrid could acquire. The team he built as the head coach of Real Madrid was composed of Spanish players entirely. They dominated

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, winning the competition nine times, including a five in a row sequence. They also won the European Cup in 1966 at Brussels' Heysel Stadium by coming from behind to beat Partizan Belgrade 2–1.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ye-Ye (Real Madrid) Real Madrid CF Nicknamed groups of association football players 1960–61 in Spanish football 1961–62 in Spanish football 1962–63 in Spanish football 1963–64 in Spanish football 1964–65 in Spanish football 1965–66 in Spanish football 1966–67 in Spanish football Spanish words and phrases