César Luis Menotti

To me, César Luis Menotti is far more than the coach who handed Argentina its first World Cup in 1978. "El Flaco" mattered because he insisted you could win beautifully, defending attacking, joyful football in an era obsessed with results at any cost. His own years as a striker for Rosario Central and Boca Juniors clearly seeded that philosophy. When he passed in 2024, the football world lost one of its great romantics, but his ideas keep lighting fires in coaches everywhere. I'll always side with the Menotti school: the scoreboard matters, yet how you fill it matters just as much.

Name (English)

César Luis Menotti

Name (Japanese)

セサル・ルイス・メノッティ

Reading

せさる・るいす・めのってぃ

Born

November 5, 1938 – May 5, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Rosario, Rosario Department, Argentina

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar%20Luis%20Menotti
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%8E%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313277

Tags

• Rosario Department
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.