The former coach of Argentina and former coach of FC Barcelona Cesar Luis Menottithe world champion with the ‘Albiceleste’ in 1978, received a medical discharge this Wednesday after being hospitalized in Buenos Aires since March 30 due to severe anemia.
As reported by the director of the National Teams of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) on the TN television channel, the former coach left the Agote Sanatorium, in Buenos Aires, for his home. Menotti, 85, was admitted on Saturday, March 30, with severe anemia, which became more complicated over the days, so he had to stay in the hospital while he underwent some studies.
‘Flaco’, a great supporter – along with AFA president, Claudio Tapia – of Lionel Scaloni as coach of Argentina, suffered a fall at his home in August, causing internal bleeding, for which he was hospitalized . Previously, he also had health problems that prevented him from traveling to the World Cup in Qatar, where in December 2022 Argentina won its third star.
A few weeks ago he spoke on the radio
The current director of the AFA National Teams made his last media intervention a few weeks ago, when he spoke to Radio Splendid about the various issues surrounding legendary football figures, such as Edson Arantes do Nascimento ‘Pelé’ or Diego Armando Maradona.
“There is one incomparable, impossible. There is one who, if he played today, would win games by himself, which is Pelé. Then we have Diego, (Johan) Cruyff, (Alfredo) Di Stefano and now Messi , but Pelé is something else,” declared Menotti.
Source: La Verdad
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