Everything about Quinta Del Buitre totally explained
La Quinta del Buitre was the name given by Spanish sport journalist Julio César Iglesias to the generation of club grown
Real Madrid players that dominated
Spanish football in the 1980s. The name ("Vulture's Cohort") was derived from the nickname given to its most charismatic member
Emilio Butragueño. The other four members were
Manolo Sanchís,
Martín Vázquez,
Míchel and
Miguel Pardeza.
Sanchís and Martín Vázquez were the first to play for the first team of Real Madrid, making their debut at
Murcia on
December 4 1983. Coach
Alfredo Di Stéfano brought the youngsters in from the start. Both played surprisingly well and Sanchís even scored the winning goal. A few months later,
February 5 1984, saw the debut of Emilio Butragueño in an away game at
Cádiz.
El Buitre was an instant sensation and scored twice. Pardeza was added to the first team that same season and Míchel followed at the start of the next.
With La Quinta del Buitre (reduced to four members when Pardeza left the club for
Zaragoza in
1986) Real Madrid had one of the best teams in
Spain and Europe during the second half of the 1980s, winning amongst others two
UEFA Cups and 5
Spanish championships in a row. Their record was only blemished by their failure to win the
European Cup.
Martín Vázquez went to play for
Torino in
1990. He made a return to Real Madrid in
1992, leaving the club again for good in
1995 (to
Deportivo La Coruña). Butragueño left the club in 1995 and Míchel in
1996. Both went to play for
Atlético Celaya in
Mexico.
Sanchís was the only member of La Quinta to never play for a club other than Real Madrid. By winning the Champions League twice (in
1998 and
2000), he also managed to accomplish what La Quinta had failed to achieve in its glory days. He retired in
2001 as last active member of the famous cohort.
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