César Luis Menotti
César Luis Menotti · "Photos: RICARDO ALFIERI (son), ANTONIO CARRERA/TAO (Madrid) and "EL GRAFICO" ARCHIVE", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

César Luis Menotti

1938 – 2024 · aged 86

Argentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)

Born
5 Nov 1938 · Rosario
Died
5 May 2024 · Buenos Aires

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 99 years
  1. 5 Nov 1938BornBorn in Rosario
  2. 1960 – 1963TeamClub Atlético Rosario Central
  3. 1963TeamArgentina national football team
  4. 1964TeamRacing Club
  5. 1965 – 1966TeamBoca Juniors
  6. 1967TeamClub Atlético Rosario Central
  7. 1967 – 1968TeamNew York Generals
  8. 1968TeamSantos F.C.
  9. 1969TeamClube Atlético Juventus
  10. 5 May 2024DiedDied in Buenos Aires

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1938 – 2024).

  1. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1938Munich Agreement
  3. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  4. 1939 – 1945World War II
  5. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  6. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  7. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  8. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  9. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  10. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  11. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  12. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  14. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  15. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  17. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  18. 1956Suez Crisis
  19. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  21. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  23. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  25. 1968Prague Spring
  26. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  27. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  28. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  29. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  30. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  31. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  32. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  33. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  34. 1985Schengen Agreement
  35. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  36. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  37. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  39. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War

Biography

César Luis Menotti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ˈlwis meˈnoti]; 22 October 1938 – 5 May 2024), known as El Flaco ("Slim"), was an Argentine football player and manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team.

Menotti played as a striker, most notably for Argentine clubs Rosario Central and Boca Juniors. As a manager, he won three cups with Barcelona and also led Atlético Madrid in La Liga in the 1980s, as well as leading Superclásico rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate. He was briefly the manager of Mexico and Italian Serie A club Sampdoria in the 1990s.

During Menotti's tenure as manager of the Argentina national team (from 1974 to 1982), he carried out a project that differed from previous processes, bringing him to be recognised as one of the most influential managers in the history of Argentine football.

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