Jorge Valdano

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Titles

*1974 - Argentine Championship (Newell's Old Boys)
*1985 - Spanish League Cup (Real Madrid)
*1985 - UEFA Cup (Real Madrid)
*1986 - Spanish Championship (Real Madrid)
*1986 - UEFA Cup (Real Madrid)
*1986 - 1986 FIFA World Cup (Argentina)
*1987 - Spanish Championship (Real Madrid)

*1995 - Spanish Championship, as coach (Real Madrid)

Famous quotes

* Football is beginning to be a lie well documented by the media.
* [Diego] Maradona has no peers on the pitch, but he has turned his life into a show, and is now living a personal ordeal that should not be imitated.
* The coach proposes and the player disposes, but the limits that the tactics impose on us are every day obfuscating more the expression of new talents. A pity.
* Every team that is good to the ball, is also good to the public.
* The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: What is a sunrise for?, what are caresses for? what is the smell of coffee for? Each question sounded like a sentence: they are for pleasure, for emotion, for living.
* Football is made up of subjective feeling, of suggestion - and, in that, Anfield is unbeatable. Put a stick with shit hanging from it in the middle of this passionate, crazy stadium and there are people who will tell you it's a work of art. It's not: it's shit hanging from a stick [...] if football is going the way Chelsea and Liverpool are taking it, we had better be ready to wave goodbye to any expression of the cleverness and talent we have enjoyed for a century [ [http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2074386,00.html "English teams are robbing game of skill, says Valdano"] - The Guardian] .
* Football is an excuse to make us happy.

References

External links

* [http://www.yrl.co.uk/~gonzalo/rm/plantilla/valdano.html Brief] (Spanish)
* [http://www.redargentina.com/DeportesArgentinos/Valdano.asp Red Argentina] (Spanish)
* [http://www.netfilia.com/contenidos/insert.html?cmf=12030&con_capa=1&contenido=468x60&web=20302&p=2128982989&id=hi7PaBAMlxgEw&url=http%3A//realmadridfans.net/bannernetfilia.htm Biography] (Spanish)
* [http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num103/textos/valdano1.html El Mundo Interview] (Spanish)
* [http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/perfiles/entrevista/jorgevaldano.html Quique Wolf Interview] (Spanish)