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Former Spain coach Luis Aragones dies aged 75

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    An excellent manager and finally turned Spain into a proper national team. Before that you had players from different regions or "nations" not competing as one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭bad2dabone


    RIP, reading Graham Hunters book about spain, Aragones comes across as quite a character.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,400 ✭✭✭Vyse


    A great coach that finally removed Spain's tag as perennial underachievers. I actually feel the Spain of Euro 08 played a better brand of football than the team that won the world cup in 2010.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,868 ✭✭✭Andersonisgod


    Very sad to hear the news this morning, the repercussions of his work as Spanish coach are still being felt. He took a team or nearly rans, he made big decisions (omitting Raul being vital) and he won the pivotal first title, uniting a group of players and fans under a single banner. Winning the first trophy was huge, to remove that tag of perennial underachievers, but to do it in such unique style cemented their place at the top of world football and in the history books and ensured that this was a group that would change the face of football.

    RIP Luis Aragones


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,222 ✭✭✭✭Will I Amnt


    RIP ya big racist.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    RIP ya great, great manager


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭cathalio11


    RIP

    The "Racism" he showed with Reyes is very similar to the "racism" I get from my black friend when he calls me a cream cracker.
    A bit of banter where he forgot that a hoard of journalists were around him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,014 ✭✭✭✭Corholio


    cathalio11 wrote: »
    RIP

    The "Racism" he showed with Reyes is very similar to the "racism" I get from my black friend when he calls me a cream cracker.
    A bit of banter where he forgot that a hoard of journalists were around him.

    Putting "Racism" in brackets like that is part of the problem. It's only fake plastic racism right?

    You mean a bit of racism when a hoard of journalists were around him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    cathalio11 wrote: »
    RIP

    The "Racism" he showed with Reyes is very similar to the "racism" I get from my black friend when he calls me a cream cracker.
    A bit of banter where he forgot that a hoard of journalists were around him.

    Banter? It was pure racism that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭cathalio11


    Guess I asked for a bitter reply with my lazy post. My fault.

    Aragones wasn't a racist man. A few black people came out in his support claiming he was a great man and really helped them and respected them.

    But in the heat of the moment, he made a racist comment that was latched on by the media. That can't be denied.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Davaeo09


    The man literally transformed the national team. He had players and fans alike get together behind a style of football that was picking up momentum. His achievements literally paved the way for what Del Bosque has achieved. RIP, an absolute legend of football!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 400 ✭✭Harvey Low Fat Milk


    Read this great piece on him by Sid Lowe - Guardian link.


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