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Jorge Valdano

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'''Jorge Alberto Valdano''' (born October 4, 1955 in ''Las Parejas'', Santa Fe Province) is a former Argentina Argentine Football (soccer) football player and, for many, a reference in World Football, sometimes called ''The Philosopher of Football''. He was part of the Argentina national football team Argentine team that won the {{Wc|1986}} in Mexico, a start in La Liga Spanish giant Real Madrid, and later became Sporting Director of the Spanish club. Valdano started playing when he was 16 years old for Santa Fe club Newell's Old Boys, where he also started playing professionally, as well as with the Argentine national football team, in 1972. In 1975 he was transferred to Deportivo Alavés of the Spanish Second Division, where he played until 1979. In that year he moved to Real Zaragoza of the first division, and then to Real Madrid in 1984, playing with the Quinta del Buitre. Stricken by Hepatitis, he decided to retire in 1988, and became a sports commentator and Real Madrid youth team's coach. In the 1991/1992 season he became Club Deportivo Tenerife CD Tenerife's coach, helping it avoid relegation, and qualifying for the UEFA Cup in the following season. He went back to Real Madrid, now as coach, and won them the 1994/1995 league. He finally coached Valencia CF in 1996/1997, before becoming Real Madrid's Sporting Director until his resignation in June 2005. Valdano played 22 times for Argentina, scoring seven goals. Other than the 1986 triumph, he also took part in the {{Wc|1982}}, but missed most of the tournament after being injured in Argentina's second game, against Hungary. Valdano also wrote the book ''Sueños de fútbol'' ("Dreams of Football") and edited the book ''Cuentos de Fútbol'' ("Football short stories") by diverse authors.

Club career
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Titles
*1973 - Primera División Argentina Argentine Championship (Newell's Old Boys) *1985 - Copa de la Liga Spanish League Cup (Real Madrid) *1985 - UEFA Cup (Real Madrid) *1986 - La Liga Spanish Championship (Real Madrid) *1986 - UEFA Cup (Real Madrid) *1986 - {{Wc|1986}} (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] Diego Maradona Maradona has no peers inside 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 imposes us are every day more obfuscating to 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 on playing good. I feel temped to tell about the time they dared to as Jorge Luis Borges Borges what is poetry for, to what he answered with more questions: What is a sunrise for?, what are caress for? what is the smell of coffee for? Each question sounded like a sentence: they are for pleasure, for emotion, for living. *Football is not a matter of life and death, is much more than that.

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- Brief (Spanish)
- Red Argentina (Spanish)
- Biography (Spanish)
- El Mundo Interview(Spanish)
- Quique Wolf Interview (Spanish) Category:1955 births Valdano, Jorge Category:Argentine football managers Valdano, Jorge Category:Argentine footballers Valdano, Jorge Category:Living people Valdano, Jorge Category:Newell's Old Boys footballers Valdano, Jorge Category:La Liga footballers Category:Real Madrid footballers Valdano, Jorge Category:Real Madrid managers Valdano, Jorge Category:La Liga managers Valdano, Jorge Category:Real Zaragoza footballers Valdano, Jorge de:Jorge Valdano es:Jorge Valdano pl:Jorge Valdano fi:Jorge Valdano

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