5 club legends who never won/may never win a trophy with their country

#2 Raul Gonzalez (Spain)

Raul may be one of the unluckiest players in history

Until the arrivals of Ronaldo (Real Madrid) and Villa (Spain), nobody had worn the number 7 shirt for both teams the way Raul did. The central figure for club and country for the majority of his career, the quiet, soft-spoken striker was the definition of world-class.

Not particularly fast, not the strongest nor the most skillful, few people gave the frail-looking Raul a chance to succeed. However, he did succeed and in so many different ways.

Taking over as Los Merengues' main man following the retirement of Hugo Sanchez, the young Raul impressed everyone with his work ethic and goalscoring instinct. Displaying a killer's mentality in front of goal, he was at the same time a great goalscorer and a scorer of great goals.

Despite the many managerial and presidential changes at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, he continued to bang in the goals with reckless abandon. As talisman and captain, he won 7 La Liga and 3 UCL titles among other titles with Real Madrid. He was the club's all-time record goalscorer and the record goalscorer in UCL history (records that have since been broken by Cristiano Ronaldo).

However, his career for La Furia Roja was one filled with lows and almost zero highs. He was the leading goalscorer for the Spanish national side with 44 goals in 102 games (a record that has also been broken by Villa). He never got to a final or even semi-final with his beloved Spain.

His dropping by Luis Aragones from the European Championships in 2008 generated a storm in Spain. However, it proved to be a masterstroke as the team went on to win Spain's first title in 44 years.