Mourning in the world of football and at Real Madrid. Amancio Amaro Varela, legend of the white team and honorary president of Real Madrid, has died this Tuesday at the age of 83. Born on October 16, 1939 in La Coruña (Galicia), he was a player and coach for Real Madrid, a team he signed for in 1962 after standing out for Deportivo de La Coruña, a team from his city.
Real Madrid itself has been in charge of announcing his death through a statement in which it expresses “his condolences and affection for his wife Consuelo, his children Óscar, Belén, Amancio, Patricia, Marcos and Claudia, his brother Juan Carlos, his grandchildren and all his relatives, colleagues and loved ones».
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Amancio Amaro played for Real Madrid between 1962 and 1976, with whom he won the sixth European Cup in 1966, in which he scored the first goal against Partizan in Belgrade at the mythical Heysel stadium in Brussels, 9 Leagues and 3 Cups from Spain. In his 14 seasons at the Santiago Bernabéu ‘El Brujo’, as he was known, he played a total of 471 games and scored 155 goals.
Since last October Amancio Amaro was the honorary president of Real Madrid, after succeeding Paco Gento, who held the position from October 2016 until his death in January 2022. «I am very excited. This appointment is an honor for me; I would like to express in words what I feel and what it means to me, but I can only say thank you. Di Stéfano and Gento, colleagues and friends, were my predecessors and it is an honor for me to receive their witnesses. The team will always be above any name and that is the greatness of Madrid. This appointment is the finishing touch to my career. I hope to be at height. Thank you », he said after the appointment of him.
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He was capped 42 times and won his first European Championship with the Spanish team in 1964 at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium. Amancio was also part of the FIFA world team that in 1968 faced Brazil at the Maracana stadium.
In addition to recalling the 14 seasons that he played for the white team, Real Madrid highlighted in their statement that “he has always been an example for Real Madrid fans and for the entire world of sport and represents the values that have forged the history of our club”.
In addition, Real Madrid remembers his time as coach, with which he “achieved the great feat of winning the Second Division championship with Castilla in 1984, the only subsidiary team of a Spanish football club that has achieved it to date”. . In fact, with Amancio as coach “one of the most important generations of homegrown players in our history was forged: the Quinta del Buitre”.
