Raúl González Blanco (born June 27, 1977), usually referred to simply as Raúl, is a Spanish football forward. He has been playing for Real Madrid at senior level since 1994, where he is the team captain. He has played more than 100 games for the Spanish national team, and is its all-time leading goal scorer with 47 goals. He represented Spain in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2004 and 2006 FIFA World Cup tournaments. He is the UEFA Champions League all-time leading scorer with 57 goals.
Raúl is also currently 8th highest goalscorer in the history of Spain’s top flight, with 203 goals in 524 games. All of these goals were for Real Madrid, making Raúl the club’s third highest goalscorer of all time. He is also called ‘The Angel Of Madrid’ by fans and pundits etc.
When playing, he wears jersey number 7 for both club and country (until Euro 2000 he wore 10 for Spain). He has been wearing the number 7 shirt for Real Madrid since he was 19.
His current contract with Real Madrid runs until 2012(extended to 2 more years).
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Alberto Jorrin
Alberto Jorrin was born in 1982 at the north of Spain, in a small town called Aguilar de Campoo. He is living in Madrid right now. He has studied computer engineering but works only as model and actor, because that is he loves to do in his life. He is continue getting his PHD in control proccess, but he thinks that his future is still as actor. He is a professional model in Madrid (Spain). He has done some TV advertising campaigns (Ford, Reyal-Urbis, Foltene PHARMA, Schwarzkopf, El corte inglés, ShockWaves,Movistar,BRAUN, Pepsi,…). Also he has done editorials (GQ, Avenue, DNG, Vogue…), fashion shows (CIbeles,IBERPIEL,Gaudí,…), Spanish TV Series (“No somos Angeles”, “Cuenta Atrás”),…. He is looking for a chance to work out of Spain. So he is waiting for an interesting offer. He can speaks English and German.
His email address is albejor2002@hotmail.com. We all wish him great success.
Alberto Jorrin
Juan Garcia – Mr. World 2007
Congratulations to Juan Garcia Postigo, who has just been announced as the winner of the 2007 Mr. World competition!
Enrique Iglesias
Name : Enrique Iglesias
Birth Name : Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler
Nick Names : Quique, E, Kike , EI, Super Nova
Date of Birth : 8 May, 1975
Place of Birth : Madrid, Spain (Half Philippino)
Height : 6′ 3
Profession : song writer, actor, musician
Vacation Spot: Caribbean
Christmas Gift: The best gift was spending time with my friends over
New Years(he got / he received)
Magazine: I read all types of mags – Time, Maxim, Forbes, US, etc…
Hat: Sportie LA
At the dawn of the new millennium, Enrique Iglesias was the best-selling Latin recording artist in the world. The son of multimillion-selling singer Julio Iglesias, Enrique was born in Madrid, Spain, where he lived with his mother, his brother Julio, and his sister Chabeli. In 1982, his mother sent them to live in Miami with their father. While there, Enrique was exposed to three different cultures and musical influences — Hispanic, European, and American.
Iglesias’ own career started when he was still attending Gulliver Private School, a very prestigious school in Miami. He made his singing debut in a production of Hello, Dolly, after which he began practicing his singing without his parents knowing. After a year studying business at the University of Miami, he decided to follow his passion for music. In 1995, he sang in person for his soon-to-be manager, who at Iglesias’ insistence of not wanting to use his family name, first shopped his demos as an unknown Central American singer named Enrique Martinez. It wasn’t until he earned a record deal with Fonovisa that Enrique told his father and mother of his aspirations. Then he flew to Toronto where no one knew him and he could concentrate just on music, to record for five months.
That first album, Enrique Iglesias (1996), sold more than a million copies in three months (it earned him his first gold record in Portugal in a mere seven days) and to date has sold more than six million worldwide. The second album, Vivir (1997), enjoyed global sales of more than five million discs and launched his first world tour, backed by sidemen for Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel. In a mere three years, Iglesias had sold more than 17 million Spanish-language albums, more than anyone else during that period. (The U.S. was his biggest market.) He also won the 1996 Grammy for Best Latin Performer, 1996’s Billboard Artist of the Year, Billboard’s Album of the Year for Vivir, two American Music Awards, a World Music Award, eight Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, two ACE Performer of the Year Awards, and ASCAP prizes for Best Composer of 1996 and 1997, in addition to countless accolades around the world.
With 1998’s Cosas del Amor, Iglesias moved to more mature content; his earlier material had been written when he was 17 years old. Then came Enrique, Enrique Iglesias’ first Interscope album and first in English, which achieved gold or platinum status in 32 countries and brought his global album sales to a total of more than 23 million. In 2001 he released the follow-up, Escape. Iglesias alternated Spanish- and English-language albums during the next two years, first offering the ballad collection Quiz in 2002, then the mainstream English record Seven in 2003.
Andres Segura
Born in 1977, Andres Velencoso grew up in Tossa del Mar, a small town near Barcelona, Spain. He is the picture perfect image of a young Spanish man: dark brown locks of hair, a debonair and elegant smile, and dark mysterious eyes. Now Andres Segura stars in Fall 2003 highly anticipated Louis Vuitton campaign. The campaign, which was shot by photographer duo Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot, will feature the Latin hunk opposite international star Jennifer Lopez.
Growing up in Tossa del Mar, a small seaside town outside Barcelona, Segura finished school before venturing into a Spanish modeling agency, Group Models Management. But his journey to success was filled with frustration and rejections in the beginning. A buzzed haircut and a muscular body didn’t seem to be the ideal image that European market demands. When Andres went to Milan, almost every agent thought that he was too big and goofy.
Natalie Kates, an agent from New York based Q Model Management opened the door to Andres Segura. With his newly grown long hair, Andres finally landed in New York in the early spring of 2001.
Undeniably gorgeous, yet unpolished and speaking no English, Andres Segura traveled overseas for his first time to New York City. Within days of arriving he found himself on the set of a shoot in East Hampton, New York. Despite the hardships of a language barrier, he caught the eyes of some of the industry’s most famous photographers including Francois Nars, Michael Thompson, Hiro and Greg Kadel.
In the Spring 2002 his first campaign for Banana Republic made him one of the most recognizable men in fashion. His handsome smile brought him from a small village to a billboard at the top of Times Square.
For a year following, he continued his modeling when photographer duo Inez and Vinoodh and stylist Joe McKenna chose him to be the subject of French Vogue’s first male model profile. The issue, which debuted in April 2003, launched him to the eyes of fashion and catapulted him to become the new male icon.
His sharp good looks have now matured into ultra-sexiness and his English is swept with a sharp charming accent that makes him the new definition for male beauty. The stunning black and white editorial in French Vogue caught the eyes of Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs who hand-selecting Segura to star in the Fall 2003 Louis Vuitton campaign while rumors of Jennifer Lopez’s involvement began to swirl. Ben Affleck was allegedly hanging around on set to make sure they behaved themselves.
It wasn’t until the final call sheet appeared at Q Management a day before the shoot, which confirmed Lopez’s appearance, that the world outside of fashion would begin to know Segura’s name and now it is not soon that they will forget it.
He has followed up his Fall 2003 campaign for Louis Vuitton, with appearances in Citizen K, The Face, and the upcoming Brioni and Exte Campaigns, along with television profiles on Entertainment Tonight and EXTRA.
