The legendary soccer coach of Argentina, Cesar Luis Menotti, died after a long illness.
According to Argentine media, Luis Menotti had been ill in recent months and died on Sunday in Buenos Aires.
Menotti (85) was a legendary football coach of Argentina, the head coach of the Argentine team that won the 1978 World Cup on home soil.
He also won trophies with the Spanish club Barcelona and coached Argentina’s under-20 team that won the World Youth Championship.
Menotti was a big fan of the Pakistan hockey team and he created a strategy to win the World Cup inspired by the Pakistan hockey team.
In 1978, when the Pakistan hockey team was in Argentina, Menotti came to meet the Pakistan hockey team, on this occasion he met the coach of the Pakistan hockey team, Waheed Khan, who gave him some tips, including a double attack.
Menotti also expressed in the interview that he wanted Argentina’s football team to play like Pakistan’s hockey team and that’s why they won the World Cup.
Menotti later thanked Abdul Waheed Khan in a telegram in Karachi and admitted that Pakistan Hockey’s strategy helped them win the World Cup.
