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Yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of Manolo Preciado, I know it's not a big international name, but it was the most touching coach we had at Sporting de Gijon.
Maybe youy will remember him as the man who broke Mourinho's record of undefeated matches at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng8loFd0d14
Here are a couple of Sid Lowe articles about him:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/nov/15/la-liga-manola-preciado-jose-mourinho
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jan/30/manolo-preciado-survivor-sporting-gijon
http://www.soccerblog.com/2012/06/rip-manuel-preciado.htm
His life is marked by tragedy, in 2003 lost his wife due to cancer, he lost a son in 2004 in an accident, and in 2011 his father died in a home accident. In 2011 he finally married again, and when all started to go great again for him, he had a heart attack in June last year.
He mainly trained teams from inferior categories before arriving at Levante, Murcia, Racing Santander and Sporting de Gijon, where he achieved a miracle, picking a team about to dissapear, bringing it to first division in his second year, and last 4 years there, before the fucking asshole we have as a president fired him mid-campaign.
He died the day after signing a contract to coach Villareal for this campaign.
As I said, his family, people from forums of Sporting de Gijon, players and other people from all the clubs he played and trained have made possible the first statue we have in Spain for a football coach, similar to Bill Shankly in Liverpool.
Gallery of pics: http://www.elcomercio.es/multimedia...das-imagenes-emotivo-homenaje-preciado-0.html
That is a nice statue, RIP.I remember when Mourinho was talking shit about him using weak players and letting Barca win. The joy I felt when it was Preciado to end Mourinho's precious undefeated home record was great.
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