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Hugo Orlando Gatti, a legendary Argentinian goalkeeper and former star of the national team, died Sunday at the age of 80, said the South American football confederation. Gatti was hospitalized two months ago for a broken hip but developed pneumonia, kidney and heart problems and was finally sedation while his health was. The reports indicated that his family decided on Sunday to withdraw it from life. Gatti – whose nickname was “El Loco” or The Mad Man – held the record for most of the matches played in the best Argentine football division, with 765. He played from 1962 to 1988.
At 44, he was still in the departure training for the regional giants of Boca Juniors football.
Gatti was famous extrovert and one of the first goalkeepers to get into the way to get out of the six yards box in the largest area in front of him.
Gatti was frank and called once the legend of football Diego Maradona “Gordito” or Chubby. A few days later, Maradona demanded revenge by scoring four goals against him.
Gatti was part of the Boca Juniors team who won the Copa Libertadores in 1977.
He was supposed to be the goalkeeper leaving for the Argentine national team who won the World Cup in 1978, but a knee injury of the months before the tournament did not touch it.
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