César Luis Menotti overcomes health crisis and is discharged

The former Argentina coach César Luis Menottiworld champion with the 'Albiceleste' in 1978, received a medical discharge this Wednesday after being hospitalized in Buenos Aires since March 30 for a severe anemia.

As reported by the director of the National Teams of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) to the TN television channel, the former coach left the Sanatorium for his home.

Menotti, 85, was admitted on Saturday, March 30, with severe anemia, which became more complicated as the days went by, so he had to remain hospitalized while he underwent several studies.

'Flaco' suffered a fall at his home last August, which caused 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.

The current director of the AFA National Teams made his last intervention in the media weeks ago, when he spoke with Radio Splendid about various issues surrounding legendary football figures, such as Edson Arantes do Nascimento 'Pelé' or Diego Armando Maradona.

“There is one who cannot be compared, it is impossible. There is one who, if he played today, would win the games on his own, which is Pelé. Then we have Diego, (Johan) Cruyff, (Alfredo) Di Stefano and now Messi, but Pelé was another thing,” Menotti declared.

After his retirement, Menotti had a very successful career on the bench, the peak of which was placing the first star on the Albiceleste shirt, to which those obtained by his colleagues Carlos Salvador Bilardo in 1986 and Scaloni in 2022 would later be added.

He also won the U-20 World Cup for Argentina in 1979, a tournament in which Maradona was the most outstanding player. Menotti was a coach for clubs such as FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid, in Spain; the Argentine Independiente and Boca Juniors, the Italian Sampdoria or the Mexican Puebla.

EFE

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