Buenos Aires, Dec 9 (AP) Former coach Alejandro Sabella, who led the 2014 World Cup runner-up Argentina team, died on Tuesday at a clinic in Buenos Aires suffering from heart disease.

He was 66 years old.

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The former boss of Estudiantes de La Plata died at the Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires, where he had been admitted on November 25 - the day soccer legend Diego Maradona died - after suffering an arrhythmia.

The medical center said in a statement that Sabella was the victim of "secondary dilated heart disease and long-standing cardiotoxicity." AP

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