Former Real Madrid player and honorary president of the club Amancio Amaro has passed away this morning at 83 years of age, according to the white club in a statement. Born in A Coruña, this unbalancing winger became “a benchmark for Real Madrid, playing for Real Madrid from 1962 to 1976. Throughout those 14 seasons he played 471 games, scored 155 goals and became one of the great legends of our team.
Honorary president of our club since 2022.#RealMadrid
— Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) February 21, 2023
‘El Brujo’, the nickname with which he was known for his magic on the field, arrived from Deportivo, where he was proclaimed ‘Pichichi’ of the competition, and He accumulated 9 Leagues, 3 Cups and a European Cup to his record as a Real Madrid player. The latter, the sixth in the history of Madrid, the one conquered by the Madrid of the yé-yé, It was achieved with Miguel Muñoz on the bench and a team made up entirely of Spanish players such as Amancio himself, Zoco, Manuel Sanchís, Pirri, Grosso or the captain in that game against Partizan Belgrade that the Whites won 2-1, Paco crowd. Amancio, who was the league’s top scorer in 1969 and 1970, hung up his boots in 1976. Amancio was considered one of the most important footballers of his day, becoming part of the FIFA team that faced Brazil at the Maracanã in 1968.
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Also also He was part of the team that won the European Cup in 1964, the year in which he also came third in voting for the prestigious Ballon d’Or. He continued his football career on the bench as a coach, where he achieved another milestone that no one has yet matched, by making a subsidiary, Castilla, Second Champion in 1984. And then he took charge of the first team, which he promoted and consolidated the historic generation of the Quinta del Buitre, who left another five league titles and two UEFA Cups in the club’s showcases.
On October 2, 2022, Florentino Pérez proposed his appointment as honorary president of Real Madrid, something that was unanimously ratified by the club’s Extraordinary General Assembly. He succeeded Alfredo Di Stéfano and Paco Gento in that position. Amancio was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit.