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2023-11-26 14:56:00
After a long struggle with illness, he died at the age of eighty years.
Terry Venables, former captain of the England national football team, has died.
The specialist, who previously coached Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, died at the age of 80 after a long struggle with illness.
As a player, Venables played more than 500 games for London teams such as Chelsea, Tottenham, Queens Park Rangers and Crystal Palace, but he is best known as a coach: he won the Spanish League championship with Barcelona and reached the final of his predecessor. Champions League, and in the European Championship, he won the FA Cup with Tottenham.
He was appointed England captain in 1994, and led the team to the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championship in Hungary, losing to the subsequent winners, Germany, with just 11 players.
His former club Tottenham will remember Terry Venables by holding a minute of silence before the league match against Aston Villa, which starts at three in the afternoon, and the players will take to the pitch wearing black armbands.
Former international Gary Lineker, in his post on X, described the specialist as the best and most innovative coach under whom it was an honor and a pleasure to play.
