"Roberto Carlos ran 100 metres in 10.8 seconds; Ronaldo was like Ben Johnson"

More could have been asked of the 'Galacticos' at that time, but their physical strengths could not be questioned. That is what Jose Luis San Martin, the Real Madrid fitness trainer at the time said.

"I teased Roberto Carlos and said 'You would take over 11 seconds to run 100 metres.' He looked at me and responded: 'We are going to check that right now', I told him that he had just trained and that it wasn't the right time, but he did it anyway. 'Take the stop clock and we will do it,' he insisted. He did it in 10.8 seconds. An amazing time. He would have been a magnificent sprinter," San Martin told 'Marca'.

Ronaldo Nazario would also have been and that even after joining RM following some bad knee injuries. "Ronnie would have been a magnificent 60 metre sprinter with very similar characteristicis to Ben Johnson. He could do 60 metres in between 6.8 and 7.8 seconds easily. He was very fast, but he got tired quickly," he recalls. 

On Beckham, he said he would have good over 800 metres, that Raul could have been a marathon runner perfectly and that Figo and Zidane were suitable for cross country. "In a Champions League match, he ended running 14km," San Martin recalled on the former '7'.