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Fernando Morientes: Passion makes La Liga the best league in the world

Morientes was in Singapore for the launch of La Liga’s office and our correspondent Aditya Bajaj sat down for an exclusive...

With three Champions League titles to his name, Fernando Morientes is no stranger to success and despite playing in the famed Galacticos era, he carved a niche for himself at Real Madrid where he truly flourished as one of the best strikers of his generation.

In his one season with Monaco on loan from Madrid in 2003-04, Morientes inflicted much damage to his parent club scoring against them in both legs in the quarter-finals of the Champions League before finishing as runners-up to Porto.