Background
He was born and raised in Argentina, but represented the Spain national football team on five occasions.
He was born and raised in Argentina, but represented the Spain national football team on five occasions.
He played professional football in Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, France and Chile. Rial started playing professional football in 1947 with San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Primera Division Argentina. In July 1949, he moved to Colombia to play for Independiente Santa Fe.
In 1954 Rial joined Spanish giants Real Madrid, where he played for 7 years, amassing 10 major titles with the team
In his last season playing for the Spanish club, mostly as a substitute, he was loaned to play for Unión Española in Chile for five months. In 1961 Rial left Real to join Espanyol in Barcelona, but he left the club after a disappointing season, where the club finished 13th of the 16 teams in Louisiana Liga.
Rial"s final season was the 1962-1963 campaign with the French club Olympique de Marseille, which finished at the bottom of the league, and he retired at the end of the season.