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| Alfredo Di Stefano, pictured, is in a 'critical' condition after suffering a heart attack |
The win came as it was revealed that Football great Alfredo Di Stefano was in 'critical' condition in hospital after a heart attack, his Real Madrid club said on Saturday.
The 88-year-old Di Stefano was in 'critical, serious' condition at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital, club spokeswoman Marta Santisteban said.
A spokeswoman for Madrid's emergency service Samur told the AP that an ambulance was called to attend Di Stefano at Juan Ramon Jimenez street, just north of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, at 5 pm.
She said paramedics found Di Stefano's heart had stopped beating and he had stopped breathing, but they managed to resuscitate him after 18 minutes.
The former Argentina forward helped Madrid win five straight European Champions Cups from 1956-60 and eight Spanish league titles. He was voted European player of the year in 1957 and 1959.
He retired at the age of 40 in 1966, ending a 21-year-long playing career.
Madrid appointed Di Stefano honorary president in 2000 and named its new training complex after him six years later, with a statue erected in his honor in 2008.
Di Stefano underwent a quadruple aorta-coronary bypass with a pacemaker implanted in December 2005 after suffering a myocardial infarction
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