Del Bosque: “Real Madrid could not have had a better honorary president”
The former Spanish coach Vicente del Bosque, which did not match the Real Madrid as a player with the deceased this Tuesday Paco Gento, but yes in the Madrid club, praised the figure of the “Galerna del Cantábrico”, as it was called, pointing out that the entity “I couldn’t have had a better honorary president than him”.
“I have great esteem for Paco, with whom I did not coincide in the squad, since when I arrived at Real Madrid (Plus Ultra), he was already finishing his stage as a player. But we coincided at the club, at the Ciudad Deportiva , and, in my opinion, I think he has been the best player that Real Madrid has had in terms of years, titles and person”Del Bosque commented to EFE.
Del Bosque arrived at the Madrid entity in 1968, specifically at the then subsidiary Plus Ultra, where he spent two campaigns. Then, he went on loan to Castellón and Córdoba, to join the Real Madrid first team in 1973. Gento had just left the club in 1971. Later, they coincided in the club in the stage of both as technicians.
For the former Spanish national coach, winner of a World Cup and a European Championship, Paco Gento was “a discreet person, with a discretion that was not normal, super cordial, friendly, good”. “And as a player, the only one to win 6 European Cups, he was very good”, he remarked.
“He always tried to go unnoticed. He didn’t have an enemy. He was currently the honorary president of Real Madrid and, of course, there was no better choice than him for that position. He was a fantastic man.”Del Bosque added.