The definitive biography of Paco Gento, a legend of Real Madrid and world soccer
To Paco Gento this biography would seem pretentious and unnecessary, serving only to reduce a bit his most precious asset: discretion. But it’s precisely that perennial discretion, that cloak by which he protected himself, that makes a biography like this one all the more necessary. It draws a portrait of the tremendous man hidden behind the idol and recounts his trajectory from his humble childhood in a small Cantabrian village to his emergence as one of the stars of the world’s greatest soccer team. Declared the dean of soccer by FIFA, Gento still holds the honor of being the only player with six European Cups to his name.
However, this isn’t a book about a single man, but also about an era and a club that, guided by Santiago Bernabéu and captained by Alfredo Di Stéfano, would become a reference in world soccer. As Gento’s nephew and a former Real Madrid basketball player, the author has had access to privileged sources of information, both in terms of the family, as in the sports and institutional realms to describe Paco Gento’s role in building the pillars of the most successful club of all time.
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