“Keep teaching, teacher”. The words are the closing of the farewell that, in video format, was given this Monday by the AFA to César Luis Menotti, who died on Sunday after several weeks affected by a health problem. The images compile a talk that the coach, world champion with the Argentine National Team in 1978, in which he gives several concepts about what he considered about football and for what he was recognized not only after his physical departure, but also in life. .
“We have to be clear that the players are not soccer players, They are men who play football. And that we have to acquire the greatest knowledge to help them be good players and better guys. Because, whether they like it or not, directly or indirectly, one in any activity proposes a lifestyle or a society in which you would like to live“were the words with which the video closed and which, perhaps, encompass the greatest legacy of the message that Menotti raised.
“I have made huge mistakes”, Flaco acknowledges at the beginning of the video, which goes back to a talk he gave in the ’90s. “I am lucky that my only heritage in football comes from the footballers who passed through my hands. They will be able to say that I never in my life denied the game, that I never thought about not stopping playing the opponent but tried to make it difficult for them, but I always thought that we had to win because we were better than them“, complete.
The last goodbye to Menotti, in Ezeiza
The death of César Luis Menotti, which occurred this Sunday afternoon while the League Cup final was being played, moved everyone. And the world of football will have the opportunity to say goodbye at the Futsal Coliseum on the AFA grounds in Ezeiza. It will be this Tuesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The family of Menotti, the first world champion coach after the coronation in Argentina 1978, wanted an intimate ceremony to take place, but finally they accepted the invitation of Claudio Chiqui Tapia, a strong man of Argentine soccer, so that friends and sports personalities They could fire him, as happened in December 2020 when Alejandro Sabella died.
The AFA, which not only communicated the news of the death of the former coach but also paid him a series of tributes, chose to reflect the feeling of grief that weighs on all of Argentine football through an image with black crepe and the legend : “César Luis Menotti 1938-2024”.
And a while later, he illuminated the tower of the Ezeiza property with the photo of Menotti holding the World Cup. In those hectares where the home of the National Team was built, inaugurated in 1990, but which had a great projection at the end of the eighties, with Argentina world champion and with the help of Flaco.
