MADRID, 3 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former Italian goalkeeper Villiam Vecchi, who was Real Madrid’s goalkeeping coach during Carlo Ancelotti’s first spell between 2013 and 2015, has died at the age of 73, the Madrid team and AC Milan confirmed on Wednesday.
“Real Madrid CF, its Chairman and its Board of Directors deeply regret the death of Villiam Vecchi, Real Madrid’s goalkeeping coach between 2013 and 2015. Real Madrid would like to express its condolences and its love and affection to his family, his teammates , to their clubs and to all their loved ones,” the European champion said in a statement.
The club chaired by Florentino Pérez recalled that during the two seasons that Vecchi was part of the Real Madrid coaching staff with Carlo Ancelotti as coach, he won the Champions League, the Club World Cup, the Copa del Rey and the European Super Cup.
“Always close to Milan, always ‘Rossoneri’. The hero of Thessaloniki will continue to stop from up there. Infinite emotion among all AC Milan fans for the disappearance of Villiam Vecchi. Condolences to the family of our historic number 1 and coach of the goalkeepers of the European champion in 2003 and 2007”, lamented the milanista team.
Vecchi developed the best part of his sports career in the ranks of Milan, with whom he played 72 games, winning the European Cup in 1969, and two Cup Winners’ Cups, in 1968 and 1973, the latter in which he was a great protagonist in the final in Athens against English Leeds United. In addition, he won a ‘Scudetto’ in 1968, the 1969 Intercontinental Cup and an Italian Cup.