Don Shula Miami Dolphins Super Bowl-winning head coach dies, aged 90

Shula guided the Dolphins to successive Super Bowl victories withinside the Nineteen Seventies, and holds the report for the maximum profession wins as an NFL head train with 347.

He guided the Dolphins to the NFL’s handiest best season in 1972, prevailing all 14 normal season video games,  play-off video games and beating the Washington Redskins to win his first Super Bowl.

The Dolphins gained the 1973 Super Bowl however Shula misplaced for different finals.

One of these became defeats became with the Batlimore Colts, who he coached from 1963 earlier than transferring to the Dolphins in 1970, wherein he remained till retiring in 1995. In all, he coached in a report 526 video games throughout 33 seasons.

“The Miami Dolphins are saddened to announce that head instruct Don Shula handed away peacefully at his domestic this morning,” stated a declaration.

“Don Shula changed into the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for fifty years. He introduced the prevailing side to our franchise and placed the Dolphins and the metropolis of Miami withinside the countrywide sports activities scene.”

As a participant, Shula performed as a protecting lower back for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, and Washington Redskins throughout seven seasons.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated Shula “will usually be remembered as one of the finest coaches and individuals withinside the records of our sport”.

In a declaration, he brought: “He made an tremendously advantageous effect on such a lot of lives. The winningest teach in NFL records and the handiest one to steer a crew to an ideal season, Coach Shula lived an remarkable soccer lifestyles.”