Farewell to one of the best wingers in the history of Spanish football. Amancio Amaro, who died on Tuesday, February 21 at the age of 83, is one of the legends of Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team. Real Madrid says goodbye to this iconic figure from the so-called Ye-Ye team. He leaves behind a widow, Consuelo Vicente, with whom he had six children. El Brujo was also the discoverer father of the Quinta del Buitre, the charismatic Emilio Butragueño, Míchel González, Rafael Martín Vázquez, Miguel Pardeza and Manolo Sanchís, who this Tuesday mourned the loss of him. In the photo above, on the right, Consuelo receives condolences from Íker Casillas. Below, Michel’s tweet.
I love you very much!!!
I owe you everything!!!
Only one other person has believed in me as much as you: My father
That’s why I will always cry for you????
Thank you infinite and eternal pic.twitter.com/ttjJTear6D— Michel (@MichelGonzalez) February 21, 2023
Amancio (A Coruña, 1939), who began his career at the age of fifteen with the youthful Victoria Club de Fútbol, signed for Deportivo de La Coruña in 1958. He married his longtime girlfriend, Consuelo Vicente Noya. A young woman from Rianxo who had the habit of calling her husband by both last names, Amaro Varela, according to the media of that time. The soccer player and his wife had six offspring: Óscar, Belén, Amancio, Patricia, Marcos and Claudia. They spent their summers on the beach of Santa Cristina in A Coruña, in Oleiros, where they were very loved. They have also continued to walk along that sandy area with their grandchildren, Claudia, Marta, Jaime, Gonzalo and Alejandro. “I keep my childhood friends,” El Brujo confessed to The voice of Galicia. Consuelo is an enterprising woman who runs a cafeteria in Coruña and a clothing store in the capital, according to Uppers.
In 1962 he left Deportivo to join Real Madrid. He was signed for 12 million pesetas (72,000 euros at the time) and three players on loan. He spent 14 seasons at the Madrid club, which “always set an example for Real Madrid and for the entire world of sport” and which last year had named him the new Honorary President to fill the void left by another legend like Paco Gento, passed away early 2022.
He played 471 games with the Madrid shirt, where he won nine League titles, three Cups and, above all, the 1996 European Cup at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels where he scored 1-1 in the 2-1 win against Partizán from Belgrade. In total, he scored 155 goals.
He wore the ‘Red’ in 42 games. He scored eleven goals and played in the 1966 World Cup in England. He played a leading role with the national team, with which he was the historic European champion in 1964 against the USSR at the Santiago Bernabéu.
“It’s a very sad day for everyone. For us, Amancio meant a lot, it was a very beautiful stage that we lived at Castilla. As a player he was the best the club had at the time and that winning spirit was transmitted to all of us. young people. Amancio, Gento and Di Stéfano are a mirror in which to look, they built what Real Madrid means,” Butragueño said on the club’s official television. Emilio, Sanchís, Rafa Martín Vázquez and Miguel Pardeza visited the funeral chapel that is installed in the Santiago Bernabéu.