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The Santiago Bernabeu will pay homage to perhaps the greatest player in the club’s history and there will also be some very important guests including Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini, FIFA and UEFA presidents respectively.

“This is a very big thing for me,” said Di Stefano to Real Madrid TV.

“I have always been a team player rather than focus on my own individual success so I would like to dedicate this honour to all my team mates.

“I will receive the tribute with warmth and enthusiasm, this is a very big honour for me, I am very pleased with the club for doing this for me.”

Di Stefano made his debut for Real on the 23 September 1953 and he remembers it well.

“What I did was remarkable, I got off the train in the morning, had a medical, had lunch and then I realised I would not be playing for at least three months,” he explained.

“The President of Real Madrid at the time, Santiago Bernabeu, was a great person, he was a true gentle man.”

Di Stefano played along side legends such as Puskas, Gento, Rial, Kopa and Santamaria. The former Real striker believes these players were the ones who pioneered today’s football values.

“Those players were the ones who invented football as we know it today," he said. "We used to fight and fight and never stop running.”

The Argentine is now Real Madrid’s honorary president and he won the European Cup five times in a row with the La Liga giants during their glory years in the fifties.

source:goal.com