A 48-year-old American coach who studied mathematics at Columbia and grew up watching Diego Maradona play for Napoli is now part of the history of Spanish club Real Sociedad in the Basque Country. Pellegrino "Rino" Matarazzo led Sociedad to its fourth Copa del Rey title on Saturday with a penalty-shootout win over Atlético Madrid. It was the first career title for the coach who left the United States to try to play soccer professionally and ended up becoming a manager in Germany. "Just the feeling you have of, ‘Wow, wow. This happened. We did it,’" said Matarazzo, who in less than four months...
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