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Former Spain Manager, Aragones dies
- Updated: February 1, 2014
Former Spain national team manager Luis Aragones has died, aged 75.
Aragones led Spain to their first major trophy at an international tournament in 44 years with victory in the 2008 European Championship.
He also managed several of Spain’s top clubs, including Barcelona and Atletico Madrid where he won the La Liga title in 1977.
As a player, he scored 172 goals in 372 games when at Atletico and represented his country on 13 occasions.
Aragones took over as manager of the national team in 2004 and went about making wholesale changes.
He dropped players such as Raul and Michel Salgado and then introduced a new playing style of short-passing football which was bringing success to Barcelona.
Four years later, the team claimed European success, beating Germany 1-0 in the final.
He left the post soon after, but the foundations were there for Spain to go on and win the 2010 World Cup and defend their European title in 2012.
However, during his tenure the Spaniard was fined 3,000 euros for making racist remarks made about former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry to Spain’s Jose Reyes.
At the time he insisted the comments were meant to motivate the Spanish player, by comparing him favourably with club-mate Henry, and were not intended to be offensive.
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