César Luis Menotti
Birthday: Born in 1938-11-05 in Rosario, Argentina
Deathday: Alive
César Luis Menotti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ˈlwis meˈnoti]; born 5 November 1938), known as El Flaco ("Slim"), is an Argentine former football manager and player who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team. During his playing days, he played as a striker, most notably for Argentine clubs Rosario Central and Boca Juniors. Menotti was appointed the head coach of the Argentina national team in October 1974 and also in Barcelona, helping them to win the Copa del Rey 1983, Copa de la Liga and the 1983 Supercopa de España before leaving in 1984.
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Selección Argentina, la serie - Camino a Qatar
Character: Self
Argentina National Football Team is getting ready for the World Cup and opens the door to behind-the-scenes. The qualifiers, the Copa América, the Finalissima and match preparation for Qatar as never seen before....
Argentina '78
Character: Self
In the midst of Argentina's bloodiest era, the country took center stage as the host of the World Cup. The military government, the national team, and even the resistance risked everything for this monumental event....
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Pele, Argentina and The Dictators
Character: Arşiv
The story of how, in the 1970 and 1978 World Cups, Brazil and Argentina's military dictators took a vested interest in their nation's football dreams....
Messi
Character: Self
His teachers, coaches, childhood friends and Barça teammates, together with journalists, writers and prominent figures from the history of football, come together in a restaurant to analyze and pick apart Messi's personality both on and off the field, and to look back at some of the most significant moments in his life. Viewed from Álex de la Iglesia's unique perspective, Messi recreates the player's childhood and teenage years, from his very first steps, with a football always at his feet, thro...
'78 Cup - The Power of Football
Character: Self
Documentary about the Football World Cup held in Argentina in 1978, focusing on the competition and behind the scenes of the most important soccer competition in the world. Two versions of the 1978 official film exist, the first "Copa 78 - O Poder do Futebol" was made by Brazilian directors Maurício Sherman and Victor di Mello in 1979 but was later withdrawn by FIFA because of its controversial content. The film includes an interview with Rodolfo Galimberti, one of the leaders of the Montoneros ...
Looking for Buenos Aires
Character: Self
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La fiesta de todos
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Documentary about Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in that country during its last dictatorship....
Buscando a Panzeri
Character: Self - Coach (archive footage)
Panzeri was an honest man, a critical journalist, a freethinker. He faced power and died alone and forgotten. Kohan is an outsider obsessed with doing justice, getting Panzeri out of ostracism and bringing him back to this world. Without Panzeri, football has only a few days to live....