Argentina’s football loses a legend.
Luis Cesar Menotti is dead. The Argentine Football Association announced this on Sunday evening. Under Menotti, the Albiceleste won the World Cup on home soil in 1978 – the first title for the South Americans at the time.
This is not the only reason why Menotti is considered an Argentine legend.
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In the year before the World Cup title, the coach helped a then 16-year-old make his international debut. His name: Diego Armando Maradona (†60).
Maradona was not part of Argentina’s squad at the 1978 World Cup, but eight years later he led the South Americans to their second title.
Luis Cesar Menotti won one Argentine championship: 1973 with CA Huracán
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By then Menotti was no longer the national coach, but instead coached the Boca Juniors. He was also active in Europe, coaching FC Barcelona and Atlético Madrid.
At the controversial 1978 World Cup under the Argentine military dictatorship, the avowed leftist Menotti attracted attention because he refused to shake hands with dictator Jorge Rafael Videla.
He has now died at the age of 85.
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