They have even graced the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, playing to a crowd of 65,000 and met people such as Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ronnie Biggs and Rajiv Gandhi.
On the night of August 24th, 1963, at the age of 19 as leader of a Venezuelan revolutionary group the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), he kidnapped famed Argentine football (soccer) player Alfredo Di Stéfano at gunpoint for three days from the Potomac Hotel in Caracas while his team, Real Madrid, were on a pre-season tour of South America.
Later Alfredo Di Stéfano remarked: "UEFA people didn't like us dominating 'their' cup. That's why they got English referees to make sure we didn't. After all, English referees were supposed to be the best. No one would suspect anything."†
Alfredo Andreini | Stefano Modena | Alfredo Di Stéfano | Alfredo Lim | Stefano Bontade | Alfredo Alonso | José Alfredo Jiménez | Alfredo Kraus | Alfredo Alcala | Treaty of San Stefano | Stefano Delle Chiaie | Alfredo Casella | Stefano Dionisi | Alfredo Stroessner | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba | Alfredo Cristiani | Stefano D'Aste | Stefano Cusumano | Stefano Colonna | Stefano Bollani | Stefano Battaglia | Santo Stefano Ticino | Alfredo Ottaviani | Alfredo Jaar | Alfredo Astiz | Stefano Zoff | Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti | Stefano Miceli | Stefano Maderno | Stefano Galvani |
The match started brightly for Reims, Leblond and Templin scored to make it 2–0 inside ten minutes, but by half time Madrid had levelled the scores, through goals from Di Stéfano and Rial.
Played against the greatest players in the world such as: Pele, Di Stéfano, Zagallo, Puskás, Didi, Garrincha, Santos, Santa Maria, Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, also played with the greatest stars the Arabs : Ammo Baba, from Iraq, Sidiik Mnzul, Borai Abdalkhar, from Sudan, Chicha of Morocco, Hassan Al-Amir, from Algeria .
Comunicaciones is the only Guatemalan team who has played against Real Madrid (with Gento, Ferenc Puskás, Alfredo Di Stéfano), Santos FC (with Pelé), and Boca Juniors (with Diego Armando Maradona).
Subsequent seasons Arieta conquered a league title and two cup, noting the title of Copa del Rey of 1958 won by defeating the Real Madrid of Di Stefano and in which major player Arieta was marking the first of two goals of the match.
Real Madrid: Agustín Rodríguez Santiago - John Metgod (76' Alfonso Fraile Sanchez), Francisco Bonet Serrano, Juan José Jiménez Collar, José Antonio Camacho Alfaro - Ricardo Gallego Redondo, Ángel de Los Santos Cano, Ulrich Stielike, Isidro Díaz González - Carlos Alonso Gonzalez Santillana; Coach: Alfredo Di Stéfano
Despite their comfortable victory, Real Madrid took no chances in the second leg and fielded a full-strength team, including Puskás, Di Stéfano, and Gento.