Daniel Passarella

SantiRojo84 said:

Who saw him play. How was Passarella as a player?

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Daniel Alberto Passarella (born 25 May 1953) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre back, and former manager of the Argentina and Uruguay national football teams. He was captain of the Argentina team that won the 1978 World Cup. He was president of the River Plate sports club for four years after winning the elections by a very close margin in December 2009. [2]
Considered one of the greatest defenders of all time,[3] Passarella was also a proficient goalscorer; at one point he was football's top scoring defender, with 134 goals in 451 matches, a record subsequently broken by Dutch defender Ronald Koeman.[4] In 2004, Passarella was named one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.[5] In 2007, The Times placed him at number 36 in their list of the 50 hardest footballers in history.[6] In 2017 he has been included in the FourFourTwo list of the 100 all-time greatest players, at the 56th position.[7]

He is in the top 4 or 5 of the best defenses in the history of soccer!

I always read and heard that he was an excellent defender, but I didn't saw. As a coach, he had a short stint at Corinthians and was terrible.

I didn’t see playing and never heard of it. I’m from the era of: Ronaldo phenomenon, Ronaldinho gaucho (wizard), Zidane and others that for me are some of the best of all time.