{"id":14625,"date":"2020-03-22T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2020-03-22T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:49:29","slug":"former-real-madrid-president-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/22\/former-real-madrid-president-dies-after-contracting-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Real Madrid president dies after contracting coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died on Saturday after being hospitalised with coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanz, 76, was president at the Bernabeu from 1995-2000, a period in which Real won the Champions League twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My father has just died,&#8221; wrote Sanz&#8217;s son Lorenzo Sanz Duran on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He did not deserve this end in this manner. One of the best, most courageous and hard working people I have seen in my life. His family and Real Madrid were his passion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanz signed players such as Roberto Carlos, Clarence Seedorf and Davor Suker during his time in charge of the 33-time Spanish champions,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He lost the 2000 presidential election to Florentino Perez, which sparked Real&#8217;s big-spending &#8216;Galatico&#8217; era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanz&#8217;s son Fernando, 46, played for Real Madrid from 1996-1999 before spending the final seven years of his career at Malaga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz died on Saturday after being hospitalised with coronavirus. Sanz, 76, was president at the Bernabeu from 1995-2000, a period in which Real won the Champions League twice. &#8220;My father has just died,&#8221; wrote Sanz&#8217;s son Lorenzo Sanz Duran on Twitter. &#8220;He did not deserve this end in this manner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":14626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14627,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions\/14627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}