Former Spainish National teaam coach, Luis Aragones, has passed away at the age of 75, in the day in a clinic in Madrid.
Aragones died after taken ill and was taken to the hospital where he passed away at approximately 06:00CET on Saturday, Dr Guillen confirmed.
Born José Luis Aragonés Suárez, on 28 July 1938, at Hortaleza, Madrid, Spain, had a very illustrous career as a player and a coach, he spent the majority of his career as a player and coach at Atlético Madrid.
As a player, he featured 86 times for Real Betis between 1961-1964 and scored 33 goals before joining Atlético Madrid in 1964 and made a total of 372 appearances notching 172 goals for the club by the time he retired in 1974.
He was also capped eleven times by the Spain national team and found the net three times.
Aragones won the 'Pichichi award' for the highest goal scorer during the 1969–70 season, he was also awarded the 'Don Balón Award' for Best coach in La Liga in 1977.
Luiz Aragones led the unbeaten Spain national team to their 1st trophy since 1964 at the 2008 UEFA Europian championship defeating Germany by a lone goal scored by Fernando Torres.
Aragones during his Managerial career coached a total of Eleven Club sides, ten of which were in spain with the only one outside spain being Fernaberche in 2008/2009.
He went on to lift a total of nine titles as a coach with Barca and Atletico.
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