Former soccer player Amancio Amaro, a teammate of Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano in Real Madrid’s European champion team, has died at the age of 83, as confirmed by the Madrid club.
“Real Madrid, its president and its Board of Directors deeply regret the death of Amancio Amaro, Honorary President of Real Madrid and one of the great legends of our club and of world football,” the club said in a statement, the agency reported. of DPA news.
Amancio was a teammate of the Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano and also of Paco Gento, both deceased, in the 1966 European Cup final, among other achievements with Real Madrid.
The merengue club expressed “its condolences and affection for his family and loved ones.”
Amancio is considered one of the best forwards in the history of Spanish football, and one of the legends of the “merengue” team in which he worked for a large part of his career and with which he won the European Cup, the sixth for the entity. , in the year 1966.
