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Amancio Amaro Varela (A Coruña, 10-16-1939) will be the new honorary president of Real Madrid . The Board of Directors of the white club agreed on Monday 12 the appointment, which must be ratified by the representative members in the Extraordinary General Assembly that the entity has convened for Sunday, October 2. Amancio, a Real Madrid player between 1962 and 1976, will succeed Paco Gento , who held the position from October 2016 until his death on January 18. Amancio, 82, was the club representative appointed to preside over the draw for tickets to the Paris final last May. Tomorrow, Friday, September 16, it will be precisely 60 years since Amancio debuted in a League match with Real Madrid . It was against Betis at the Villamarín, in a match that ended 2-5 in favor of the Whites with a hat-trick from Puskas. Amancio scored 1-4. The Galician had already made his debut eleven days earlier at the Bernabéu against Belgian Anderlecht in the first leg of the round of 16 of the European Cup. Now, then, six decades have passed since the beginning of Amancio’s journey at the club. A stage that, as a player, lasted for 14 seasons. El Brujo , who arrived from Deportivo, was one of the figures who led the ye-yé team that in 1966 won the sixth European Cup in Brussels against Partizán (2-1), in a match in which he also He was the protagonist when he scored the tying goal. Amancio played 471 official games with Real Madrid, a figure that keeps him as the 16th player with the most games played in the club’s history. He scored 155 goals, still being Madrid’s eleventh all-time goalscorer.
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He treasures a record of a European Cup, nine Leagues, three Spanish Cups and the European Championship that in 1964 he won with the Spanish team at the Bernabéu against the Soviet Union. Amancio was, as coach of Castilla, the discoverer of La Quinta del Buitre. Di Stéfano made them debut (all except Míchel), but it was the man from Coruña who gave them continuity and won the title of Second Division champion in the 1983-84 season, a milestone that no other subsidiary has been able to achieve since there is the only group in the silver division . He also managed the first team for six months in the 1984-85 season and then continued to be linked to the club in different tasks. He became a member of the Board of Directors of Florentino Pérez and participated in the organization of the celebrations for the centenary of Real Madrid in 2002.