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Luis Aragonés Suárez (; 28 July 1938 – 1 February 2014) was a Spanish
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player and manager. Aragonés spent the majority of his career as a player and coach at
Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish profess ...
. He was a prominent player and then coach of the successful Atlético team of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The team were
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four times, reached the
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. Between 1964 and 1974, he played 265 Primera Liga games for Atlético and scored 123 goals. He also played for several other clubs, including
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, and played 11 times for Spain, scoring three goals. Apart from Atlético he also coached seven other La Liga clubs as well as the Spain national team, whom he led to their second European Championship title in
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. He then became the head coach of the Turkish club Fenerbahçe after the tournament, the only time he coached outside his native Spain.


Playing career


Early career

Aragonés began his playing career with
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in 1957. In 1958, he signed for
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but never made it into the senior team. He spent most of his time at Real Madrid on loan to other clubs, including
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and Hércules and playing for AD Plus Ultra, the Real Madrid
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. In 1960, he joined
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and made his debut in the
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. Between 1961 and 1964, he played for
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, making 86 league appearances and scoring 33 goals.


Atlético Madrid

In 1964, Aragonés was signed by
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where he acquired the nickname "''Zapatones''", meaning "big boots", since he was known as a
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specialist. Aragonés picked up silverware in his first season at the club, winning the
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(then known as the Copa del
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). He then helped Atlético to the La Liga title in 1965–66 and again in 1969–70, where he shared the ''Pichichi'' trophy for the highest scorer in the league with his fellow Atlético forward
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and Real Madrid's Amancio. A second Copa followed in
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and the team achieved a third league title in 1973–74. The following year, Atlético reached the
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of the
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played against German champions
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. During the match, Aragonés scored a goal late in extra time to give Atlético a 1–0 lead. A 119th-minute equaliser from
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, however, sent the final to a replay, where Bayern prevailed with a convincing 4–0 victory. His retirement followed soon after and he was appointed Atlético coach for the first time in the same year. To date, Aragonés remains Atlético's all-time top goalscorer and is ninth in the club's all-time appearance list.


International

Aragonés made his international debut for
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on 8 May 1965 in a 0–0 friendly draw away to
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. The first of his three goals for Spain was in a friendly against
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in
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, in a 3–1 win on his seventh cap on 17 October 1968. He captained the side for the sole time on his 10th of 11 caps, a 3–0 win over
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in
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on 11 November 1970 in qualification for
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. He scored in the match.


Managerial career


Spanish clubs

In his first season in charge at Atlético Madrid, Aragonés led Atlético to success over two legs in the
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, where the team beat
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winners Independiente of
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2–1 on aggregate. Atlético went on to claim the Copa del Generalísimo and La Liga title in
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and
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respectively. After six years in charge of Atlético, Aragonés took over at
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in 1981. His time in
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, however, was brief and he returned to the Vicente Calderón in 1982. In his second spell at the club, his Atlético side came close to achieving a historic
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during the 1984–85 season, winning the
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and finishing runner-up in La Liga. The following season, the team reached the final of the
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, where it was beaten 3–0 by
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. Aragonés' success saw him appointed as manager of
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in 1987, where he spent one season, winning the
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. He then spent a season at fellow Barcelona based club
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before rejoining Atlético for a third spell, where he won the sixth Copa del Rey of his career in
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. After leaving the club for a third time in 1993, he went on to coach
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,
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, Real Betis,
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and
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. His biggest success during this period was in the 1995-96 season coming within four points of winning the
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title with Valencia. In
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, with the club in the
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, Aragonés took over at Atlético for a fourth time and led the team to promotion back to the Primera División as champions in the 2001–02 season. He left the club for the final time in 2003 and remains its most successful manager with eight trophies won. Aragonés returned to Mallorca on 2 October of the 2003–04 season, after the dismissal of
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for a poor start to the season. He steered the club to 11th by the end of the season. On 1 July 2004, he took the job of Spain national team after
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resigned due to public disapproval for failing to qualify the team from the group stage at
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.


Spain national football team

On taking over the national team following the UEFA Euro 2004 humiliation, Aragonés made changes to the team, dropping experienced players such as
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and
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and revamped with some new blood. Spain were unbeaten in qualification for the
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under Aragonés, but finished as group runner-up to
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, and thus required a play-off against
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to secure their place. Spain won the play-off 6–2 on aggregate, with Luis García scoring a hat-trick in the first-leg 5–1 win. At the finals, Spain won all three group games before facing France in the Second Round. After taking the lead through
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, they lost 3–1 following goals from
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,
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and
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. Realizing the physical weakness of Spanish players, he employed ''
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'', a system of short passing which subsequently would also be identified with the playing style of Barcelona, and became the biggest football revolution in the history of Spanish football. Aragonés stayed on as manager and presided over the following qualifications for the European Championship. The initial phase of the qualifiers started on a poor note with a 3–2 defeat to
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and a 2–0 defeat to
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both away from home, a pair of results that put tremendous pressure on Aragonés' position. Spain recovered strongly to seal a ticket as group winners ahead of Sweden that also qualified directly to the tournament, while
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missed out. Aragonés then presided over Spain's victorious campaign at
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, beating
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1–0 in the final with a goal from
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for their first international honour since
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. Aragonés had a superstitious fear of the colour yellow, and referred to Spain's change kit for the semi-final match against
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as "mustard" and not "yellow". His ''tiki-taka'' style of play was retained by his successor,
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, who led Spain to further tournament victories.


Fenerbahçe

After denying an approach in late June, Aragonés replaced Zico as manager of Turkish
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club Fenerbahçe on 5 July 2008. He signed a two-year deal and declared his intention to win the league title in his first season. The club, however, finished in fourth, and he was dismissed on 2 June 2009 after the season had ended.


Managerial statistics


Honours


Player

Atlético Madrid *
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: 1965–66, 1969–70, 1972–73 *
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: 1964–65, 1971–72 *
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runner-up:
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Individual

*
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: 1969–70 *Atlético Madrid's all-time leading top scorer: 172 goals


Manager

Atlético Madrid *
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: 1976–77 *
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: 1975–76, 1984–85, 1991–92 *
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:
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*
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: 2001–02 * Intercontinental Cup:
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Barcelona *
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: 1987–88 Spain *
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:
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Individual

* Don Balón Award (Best Coach): 1976–77 *
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: 2008 *
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: 2008 * Gold Medal of the Community of Madrid: 2014


Thierry Henry controversy

In 2004, Aragonés was appointed coach of Spain. During a training session in the same year, a Spanish TV crew filmed Aragonés making offensive comments to
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about Reyes' black
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teammate
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, saying: The incident caused uproar in the English media with calls for Aragonés to be sacked or suspended of his duties, however the Spanish Football Federation stated that "his offence has not been deemed serious enough to warrant a suspension of his duties, or his sacking" After an investigation into the events during the match,
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fined the
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100,000
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87,000 and warned that any future incidents would be punished more severely. UEFA noted that possible punishments could include suspension from major international tournaments or the closure of Spain's home international matches to supporters. In response to this, Aragonés said in public that he was not a racist, and claimed that he had black friends. Brazilian-born black midfielder
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stated: Aragonés also responded to the controversy by saying to a group of reporters: "You are like wolves after the deer. You are kids. You don't know anything, but I am nearly 70. I have a lot of black friends who have explained to me that the English were after them in the colonies." These comments were criticised by
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, a member of the
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's executive and a trustee of the football anti-racism organisation Kick It Out, who suggested that Aragonés' comments on colonialism were an attempt "...to justify his offensive and disgraceful statement".


Death and legacy

Aragonés died on 1 February 2014 in Clínica CEMTRO hospital,
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, from
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. The Royal Spanish Football Federation released a statement of "grief and shock" at the death of the man who was the coach at "the start of its most glorious era of successes on the world stage".
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, incumbent manager of Atlético Madrid, spoke on the day of Aragonés' death, saying, "From here I want to send a very strong message to his family. Everyone at Atletico is hurting at the loss of such an important part of the club and for the Spanish football." Aragonés' successor as the coach of
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gave his word, "We've woken up to a sad news. Luis has been the father of the successes for the National Team. We are in his hall and I think we will always carry him in our memory." His funeral was held on 2 February in Madrid with the attendance including Spanish players
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and
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. He was buried in the cemetery of La Paz in
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. At the
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, Atlético Madrid wore shirts with Aragonés' name written in gold on the inside of the collar. Atlético Madrid pays tribute to Aragonés in the club membership cards for 2019–20 season.


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