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Argentina World Cup winner, Leopoldo Luque has died on Monday from a heart attack, while he was receiving treatment for Covid-19, hospital sources said.


Luque, who was 71, contracted coronavirus, which led to a pneumonia that provoked his death, a hospital source from the western city of Mendoza said.

 

Striker Luque scored some crucial goals as Argentina won the World Cup for the first time on home soil in 1978.

 

He scored Argentina's opening goal of the tournament in a 2-1 win over Hungary and added three more, including a brace in the crucial 6-0 thrashing of Peru that sent them into the final.