César Luis Menotti
remains hospitalized in a clinic in the City of Buenos Aires after being admitted days ago with "severe anemia
.
"
The coach, world champion with Argentina in 1978, remains
"stable" according to what
Clarín
told
him from his surroundings. Although he is already normalized after receiving a series of transfusions,
he is not recovered
and the doctors are still waiting for him to complete his evolution to discharge him so he can return to his home.
Menotti, 85,
had been feeling very weak
and had not left his house in recent weeks. Despite domestic care, the condition worsened and it was then that they decided to admit him to the
Agote Sanatorium
. They claim that he is in
"good spirits"
and that he keeps asking the doctors to let him go to his house. However, those who care for him prefer to be more cautious:
the premise is that he recovers normal clinical values and, in the process, gains a little weight
. He had arrived very deteriorated and the evolution is very slow.
El
Flaco
has been experiencing some health problems in recent times. For this reason, he could not travel to the
2022 World Cup in Qatar
to see the coronation of Lionel Messi and company live at the Lusail stadium. At the end of August 2023, too, it had already been in the news for another hospitalization. On that occasion he had suffered a fall in his house that caused
internal bleeding
, for which he was hospitalized. A few days later he was discharged and returned to his house. Some time before, in 2011, a
nodule was removed from his lung
.
He is a key figure for Argentine football.
He was as a footballer - he shone in
Rosario Central
and
Boca
and was a teammate of
Pelé
in
Santos in Brazil
- but above all as a coach. After winning
Huracán
champion
in 1973 with one of the most remembered teams in history, he assumed leadership of the
national team
and was key for the clubs and leaders to give it the importance that they had never given it until then.
Thus, after phenomenal work and testing players from all corners of the country, he put together the team that was crowned champion in
Argentina 1978
. He remained in office until the
1982 World Cup in Spain
, where the Albiceleste, reinforced with Diego Maradona, did not live up to expectations and was eliminated in the second round.
Later, after managing numerous clubs - he went through
Boca
,
River
,
Independiente and
Barcelona of Spain
, among others -, he reconnected with the AFA once
Claudio Chiqui Tapia
assumed the presidency. He was appointed as
National Director of Selections
and was a key player in the
Scaloneta
process . In fact, he was instrumental in confirming
Lionel Scaloni
at the head of the team that would later become champions of the
2021 Copa América in Brazil
, the
Finalissima
and the
2022 World Cup in Qatar
.
Scaloni and Menotti, two world champion coaches. Photo: AFA
Menotti's last public appearance
In one of his last public appearances,
Menotti gave an interview with Radio Splendid
and not only analyzed the present of the Argentine national team, but also revealed that
Ángel Di María
is his favorite Scaloneta player. He said that she had almost no dealings with him and that he would love for her to return to the country to play for Rosario Central, the club he loves.
“He is a generous kid... Look, he has been treated disrespectfully without any recognition when for me he was the figure of the Argentine National Team.
He played better than everyone, including the greats, with his character and his little face of nothing
”, He remarked when referring to the Benfica man.
And he added: “It is a great joy that he is now recognized because he is one of the best players in the history of Argentine football in terms of his participation in the world of football. Review where he played, how he played and ask his teammates. He never sold smoke.”