Mexican football coach Manuel Lapuente died at the age of 81. The Mexican Football Federation reported on the death of one of the most successful Mexican captains on the social network.
The former player of Monterrey, Club Puebla or another Mexican club, Atlas, won five Mexican titles as a coach after an active career. Lapuente also led the national team there, twice. First, in 1991, he worked on the bench of Mexico as a temporary helmsman, for a period of three years, he became the coach of his native country six years later.
In 1998, he won the continental Gold Cup, and in the same year at the World Cup in France, Mexico advanced from the group. A year later, under his leadership, the Central American country also triumphed in the now defunct FIFA Confederations Cup.
