Emilio Butragueño

Emilio Butragueño is one of those names that makes me nostalgic for a more cerebral kind of striker. At 168 cm he was never imposing, yet his uncanny knack for ghosting into the right spot earned him the nickname El Buitre, The Vulture. As the figurehead of La Quinta del Buitre alongside Sanchis, Martin Vazquez and Michel, he embodied a homegrown golden generation at Real Madrid, the sort of club identity money cannot buy. I value forwards who scored through intelligence rather than power, and Butragueno remains, to me, a small masterclass in Spanish footballing craft.

Name (English)

Emilio Butragueño

Name (Japanese)

エミリオ・ブトラゲーニョ

Reading

えみりお・ぶとらげーにょ

Born

July 22, 1963 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Height

168 cm

Occupation

association football player / beach soccer player

• Xhttps://x.com/ButraguenoRM
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Butrague%C3%B1o
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41235

Tags

• Community of Madrid
• association football player
• beach soccer player

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.