Former player Emilio Butragueno will succeed Jorge Valdano as the sporting director of Real Madrid, club president Florentino Perez said on Friday.

Valdano said on Thursday that he would be stepping down with effect from June 11, the date on which the club has called an extraordinary general meeting of its members to lay out the schedule for the presidential election in July.

"Emilio will take over the job," Perez told Spanish radio station Onda Cero. "He and (new coach Jose Antonio) Camacho will be responsible for planning next season.

"That is the case for the moment but as for the future we will have to see what happens in the elections."

Butragueno, who has become a symbol of the Real Madrid team that won five consecutive league titles between 1986 and 1990, has been Valdano's deputy for the last four years.

He played alongside Camacho who took over as coach at the start of the week after the dismissal of Carlos Queiroz.