Buenos Aires, Arg. Argentine soccer personalities said goodbye this Tuesday to the 1978 world champion coach, César Luis Menotti, who died on Sunday at the age of 85.
Figures from the three world championships won by Argentina attended the wake at the Argentine Football Association (AFA) grounds in Ezeiza: Lionel Scaloni, champion technical director in 2022; Héctor Enrique, midfielder who established himself in 1986 alongside Diego Maradona; and Daniel Passarella, captain of the team led by Menotti in 1978.
Also accompanying were family members and other Argentine football leaders such as Ubaldo “Pato” Fillol, goalkeeper of the 1978 national team, and Pablo Aimar, former player and part of Scaloni’s coaching staff in Qatar-2022.
The coffin was carried, among others, by the president of the AFA, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, to the Indoor Soccer stadium of the housing complex that bears the name of another world champion, Lionel Andrés Messi, where he was laid to rest.
“El Flaco” Menotti, born in the Argentine city of Rosario, died on Sunday at the age of 85. In addition to leading Argentina to victory in 1978, he managed fifteen teams in five countries and since 2019 served as director of national teams for the AFA Association.
The body of the man who was coach of Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid in Spain and Boca and River in Argentina, among other teams, will be cremated in the Recoleta cemetery near the center of Buenos Aires, said his son César Mario, although it has not been confirmed. specified the date.
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– 2024-05-11 01:57:19
