Q 01/05

What was Alfredo Di Stéfano's famous nickname?

A) Saeta Rubia

B) La Máquina

C) El Pibe

D) El Divino

Answer · why

A) Saeta Rubia

Saeta Rubia means Blond Arrow, for his fair hair and his speed. Fans in Buenos Aires chanted: 'Help, help, here comes the Saeta with his jet propulsio...

Q 02/05

Which Manchester United reserve watched Di Stéfano from the stands in 1957 and later called him the most complete footballer he'd seen?

A) Duncan Edwards

B) Bobby Charlton

C) Denis Law

D) Nobby Stiles

Answer · why

B) Bobby Charlton

Bobby Charlton, left out of the side that day, sat high in the stands in Madrid as Real beat United 3–1 in a European Cup semi-final. He recalled thin...

Q 03/05

Which newly crowned European champions were the visitors for Di Stéfano's farewell match at Real Madrid in 1967?

A) Inter Milan

B) Benfica

C) Celtic

D) Manchester United

Answer · why

C) Celtic

Celtic had tried to sign him three years earlier, and he had turned them down. They came to his farewell two weeks after winning the European Cup in L...

Q 04/05

Which club took Di Stéfano on loan for the 1946 season, when he scored his first senior goals?

A) Huracán

B) Estudiantes

C) Atlanta

D) San Lorenzo

Answer · why

A) Huracán

Huracán were the opponents in his only senior game of 1945, a defeat. A year on he was scoring ten league goals in their colours, before going back to...

Q 05/05

Which Independiente goalscorer was Di Stéfano's boyhood football idol?

A) Ángel Labruna

B) Arsenio Erico

C) José Manuel Moreno

D) Adolfo Pedernera

Answer · why

B) Arsenio Erico

Arsenio Erico was a Paraguayan centre-forward who scored all his Argentine league goals for Independiente. So the boy's hero wore the colours of a dif...