Attention to the health of César Luis Menotti: he is “stable” but will remain hospitalized

Cesare Luis Menotti he is still hospitalized in a clinic in the city of Buenos Aires after being hospitalized days ago with a “severe anemia”. He remains the world champion coach with Argentina in 1978 “stable” as they entrusted Clarion from your environment. Although he is already normalized after receiving a series of transfusions, is not recovered and the doctors are still waiting for him to complete his evolution to discharge him and let him go home.

Menotti, 85 years old, he felt very weak and had not left the house in recent weeks. Despite home care, his condition worsened and that’s when they decided to admit him to hospital. Agote Sanatorium. They assure us that this is the case “good mood” and continues to ask the doctors to let him go home. However, those who take care of him prefer to be more cautious: The premise is that normal clinical values ​​are recovered and, in the meantime, some weight is gained.. It arrived very damaged and the evolution is very slow.

He Skinny He has had some health problems recently. For this reason she could not travel Qatar 2022 World Cup to see the coronation of Lionel Messi and company live at the Lusail Stadium. Even at the end of August 2023 there was already talk of another hospital admission. On that occasion he had suffered a fall at home which had caused him a internal bleeding, for which he was hospitalized. A few days later he was discharged and returned home. Some time before, in 2011, they had taken to pulmonary nodule.

He is a key figure for Argentine football. He was a footballer, he shone Central rosary AND Mouth and he was a companion of Pele inside Saints of Brazil-, but above all as a coach. It’s the one after winning the champion Hurricane In 1973, with one of the most remembered teams in history, he took charge of national team and it was essential for the clubs and managers to give him the importance they had never given him until then.

So, after phenomenal work and testing players from all corners of the country, he put together the team that was crowned champions Argentina 1978. He remained in office until the World Cup. Spain 1982where 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 ran his course Mouth, River, Independent and Barcelona of Spainamong others-, he resumed contact with the AFA once Claudio Chiqui Tapia assumed the presidency. He was designated as Director of the national team and was a key player in the process Staircase. Indeed, it was crucial at the time of ratification Lionel Scaloni leading the team that would later become champions of Brazil Copa America 2021THE Very final and the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Menotti’s last public appearance

In one of his last public appearances, Menotti gave an interview to Radio Splendid and not only analyzed the present of the Argentine national team, but also revealed it Angelo Di Maria He is his favorite Scaloneta player. She said that she had almost no relationship with him and that she would have liked for her to return to the countryside to play for Rosario Central, the club of her loves.

“He’s a generous guy… Look, he was treated disrespectfully without any recognition when for me he was the figure of the Argentine national team. He played better than everyone, including the adults, with his character and his little face“, he remarked referring to the Benfica man

And he added: “It is a great joy that he is now being 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 you played, how you played, and ask your teammates. “He never sold smoke.”