“Except for Francesco Totti, I don’t see any club symbols or any standard bearers in this country. He made a choice to reject all other teams even if they offer more money.”
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Florentino Pérez
Florentino Pérez Rodríguez is a Spanish businessman and the president of football club Real Madrid, as well as chairman and CEO of ACS Group, a civil engineering company.
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business · Spanish businessman (born 1947) · businessperson · politician · civil engineer · sports executive · entrepreneur · functionary · engineer · also Florentino Pérez, Pérez
Born 8 March 1947 · Q245207
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2026· 4 entries
“s sanctions and possible Real Madrid”
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Public attention spiked: 18,051 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.1× the usual 1,789, with 8 article edits. Editors noted: Restored revision 1358127234 by ~2026-33530-68 (talk): Vandalism of page
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Public attention spiked: 14,933 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.3× the usual 1,789, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Removed spurious claim based on a dubious award.
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2025· 1 entry
Reported net worth: £3.1B (as of 2025).
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2024· 1 entry
The final cost is estimated at around €1
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2022· 1 entry
An unauthorized biography titled El poder del palco was published about Pérez, in which the Spanish journalist Fonsi Loaiza explores the role of the Santiago Bernabeu VIP area in Pérez's business success, highlighting hi
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2021· 1 entry
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pérez tested positive on 2 February 2021, but had no symptoms.
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2019· 1 entry
Pérez revealed the plans to renovate the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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2014· 2 entries
FIFA World Cup stars James Rodríguez, Toni Kroos, and Keylor Navas to Real Madrid for a combined cost of £95 million, as well as Javier Hernández, who was loan from Manchester United
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“I want to compliment Francesco Totti, scoring 206 goals is a great achievement. It does not matter that he has beat me as he is a great player.”
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2011· 2 entries
And winning the La Liga title in 2012 with a record-breaking 100 points
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Real Madrid reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2003
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2010· 1 entry
“Totti is a treasure for Roma, He is the greatest player of all time after Baggio.”
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of Real Madrid CF (2009).
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2002· 1 entry
David Beckham in 2003, Michael Owen in 2004, and Robinho for a short time in 2005
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2001· 1 entry
Zinedine Zidane was signed from Juventus for a then-world record transfer fee of €77
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2000· 2 entries
Pérez again ran as a candidate for presidency of Real Madrid, which he won with more than 55% of the votes, beating the incumbent president at that time, Lorenzo Sanz
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Career landmark: president of Real Madrid CF (2000–2006).
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1998· 1 entry
And 2000 would give him enough credit to win the elections, but Pérez's campaign, once again highlighting the financial problems of the club and claims of mismanagement by the previous boards, proved otherwise
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1997· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Pérez ran as a candidate for the presidency of Real Madrid against Ramón Mendoza and Santiago Gómez Pintado
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1993· 1 entry
Pérez was named vice chairman of OCP Construcciones
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1986· 1 entry
Pérez ran as a candidate for the Democratic Reformist Party (Partido Reformista Democrático) and served as its secretary-general
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1981–1982).
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1979· 2 entries
Career landmark: Madrid municipal councillor (1979–1983).
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Serving as a member of Madrid's city council
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1971· 1 entry
And was a member of the political parties Union of the Democratic Centre and the secretary-general of the Democratic Reformist Party, from 1979 to 1986
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1970· 1 entry
And they had 3 children: Eduardo, Florentino, and María Ángeles
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-03-08.
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