Betis is Menotti’s impossible love

Cesar Luis Menotti, technician who died this Sunday, May 5, who was made a world champion Argentina for the first time in its history, in 1978, and then led the FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid in Spain, he is also close to directing Real Betis as he remembered in previous years.

In the Party of Twelve, of Can handle it, the Argentine coach assured in 2012 that “he will only return to Spain to coach Betis and Cádiz. Sometimes I’m close to Betis. When I entered Atlético de Madridhe Hill Crazy He insisted that I coach Betis, and when we visited, he was very good for the fans. “I came back to Argentina and signed for River and three days later they looked for me from Betis, but it wasn’t possible,” he explained.

The specific moment it refers to Menotti It was the summer of 1988, where Flaco, after leaving the Atlético de Madridpromised to return to river plate, so he could not attend to the offer sent to him by the then Betic president, Gerardo Martínez Retamero. He started the 1988/89 campaign on the bench Eusebio Rioseventually given by Cayetano Re and finally by Pedro Buinevantura, who saved them from relegation the previous year at Las Palmas and where the team was relegated to promotion along with Tenerife in July 1989.

“What if I still want to be a coach? Ask Paco de Lucía if he wants to play the guitar. He Betis and Cádiz They are two teams that I would have liked to coach,” he responded again in an interview with Radio Marca, in the 21st century. And he reiterated his passion for the green and white colors in another interview with El País: “I liked Betis, a lot. El Loco de la Colina told me about managing Betis. The thing is where I come from Atlético de Madrid and signed for River, and a week later he called me to come to Betis. I want to die, I always want to lead the Legs”, assured the Argentine.