Manchester United world champion footballer dies



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After a long illness, Manchester United BEK winner Nobby Stiles died at the age of 78, winning a 1966 World Championship title with the English soccer team.

The BBC reports that Nobby Stiles had prostate cancer and advanced dementia.

Nobby Stiles played football for Manchester United from 1960 to 1971, during which time he won two league titles, two English Super Cups, and a European Championship. He joined the Middlesbrough team in the summer of 1971 and then joined the Preston North End for two years, from which he retired in 1975.

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The 1966 world champion English team player started working as a coach after retirement. He led the Preston North End, Vancouver Whitecaps and West Bromwich Albion teams.

From 1989 to 1993 he worked for Manchester United, with players like the Neville brothers, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes.

He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013 and in his later years he had Alzheimer’s and dementia.



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