Real Madrid's dominance in the European Cup allows up to eleven players from the white club to aim to enter what is arguably the most elite list in football, which includes winners of the Champions League and the FIFA World Cup in the same calendar year.

Actually there would be twelve, since Casemiro now defends the Manchester United shirt, the club he joined last summer after winning his fifth Champions League with Real Madrid. The list includes: Courtois, Hazard, Militão, Rodrygo, Vinícius Júnior, Modric, Benzema, Camavinga, Carvajal, Asensio, and Valverde.

In this elite club, the Real Madrid players stand out, thanks to the club's triumphant age in the European Cup opened in 1998 with the conquest of the long-awaited "Seventh" in the final in Amsterdam against Juventus. Christian Karembeu was European champion that year with his club and world champion with France, who beat Brazil in the final with two goals from Zidane.

Four years later, Roberto Carlos won the double crown after winning the "Ninth" with Real Madrid (with two crucial passes in the final against Bayer Leverkusen) and the World Cup with Brazil thanks to Ronaldo Nazario's comeback, who joined him at the Bernabéu shortly after the world cup.

In 2014, it was the German Sami Khedira who won the Champions League (the "Décima" in Lisbon) and the World Cup. Although he was unable to participate in the final against Argentina after suffering an injury in the warm-up, the German was a key player during the World Cup in Brazil, including that historic victory in the semifinals against the hosts (1-7).

The final Real Madrid player to achieve the legendary double was Raphael Varane. He won the Champions League with Madrid in Kiev against Liverpool thanks to Bale's double, and he added the second World Cup in the history of "Les Bleus" with France in 2018.

However, Real Madrid is not the only club that can boast of bringing together simultaneous European and World champions in its squad. The path was opened by Bayern in 1974, who won the European Cup with what would later be the base of the Federal German team that would win the World Cup in the final in Munich against Cruyff's Holland. Maier, Breitner, Schwarzenbeck, Beckenbauer, Müller, Hoeness and Kapellmann were an active part in winning both titles for German football.