ARGENTINA’S 1986 WORLD Cup-winning defender Jose Luis Brown has died aged 62 following a long battle with Alzheimer’s.
“Maximum day of sadness for the Albirroja [La Plata] family, our gladiator Jose Luis Brown has left,” his former club Estudiantes de La Plata tweeted. “But his memory and love of the club will never depart.”
Known to his friends as Tata, Brown made 36 appearances for Argentina and scored the first goal in their 3-2 World Cup final victory over West Germany in 1986.
He dislocated his shoulder late in the match but refused to be substituted – a move that cemented his place in Argentinian football folklore.
Without Jose Luis Brown, we would never have won the World Cup in 1986,” Argentina legend and former team-mate Diego Maradona said on Instagram. “You never complained about a thing, Tata.”
After a playing career that included stints in Spain and France, Brown was coach, along with Sergio Batista, of the national U23 squad which won the 2008 Olympics and fielded Lionel Messi, Juan Roan Riquelme and Sergio Agüero.
Imagine McGregor answering a knock on his door this morning and there’s a lad standing there in a lab coat with a sample cup in his hand
@David Garland: he’d be fine. He’s not scheduled to compete so they’d only be tearing for performance enhancing drugs out of competition… only during competition do they test for recreational drugs..
There were a load of comments here that are now deleted. Did someone say something they shouldnt have?
@NiallKelly . Why did you delete my question? Free speech…
Free speech isnt a law in ireland, up until recently blasphemy was illegal here, so those two concepts dont exactly go hand in hand. I just think it’s interesting that what people said under this article is the exact same that they were saying under the article about McGregor slapping an official. (unless more comments were added that i didnt see and the42 decided to delete them all)
@Rudiger McMonihan: I’d like to get the author’s opinion on why it is ‘illegal’ on here to ask a question about drugs on an article about drugs.