The Basque coach takes over the reins of Sevilla with the aim of leading them definitively away from the relegation places.
Sevilla has finalized the signing of the third coach for the 2022-2023 season. The Nervión club has decided to fire Jorge Sampaoli after the last bad run of results and took advantage of the national team’s break to swap on the bench with hiring José Luis Mendilibar.
Signing of José Luis Mendilibar as Sevilla coach: how many years of contract will he sign, how much will he earn in salary, coaching style and in which teams has he been
Jose Luis Mendilibar (Zaldibar, 1961) becomes the new trainer of Sevilla. The Basque coach signs a contract with the club for the rest of this season with the aim of saving Nervió’s teamn a complicated situation. The coach already knows three Sevilla players from his time at Eibar, such as Marko Dmitrovic, Joan Jordán and Bryan Gil.
Mendilibar was a player and more specifically a striker in the 1980s and 1990s in which he passed through Bilbao Athletic, Logrolés, Sestao and Lemona. After his retirement, he started his career as a coach also in the Basque Country and in teams from the lower categories from athletics to in 2004 he made the jump to Segunda at the hands of Eibar, with whom he almost achieved promotion to First Division in his first leg.
Then he went to Athletic, where he led only 9 games until his dismissal. Then he managed to bring Primera back Valladolid and kept it in the category for two seasons before being fired. Had a similar trajectory Osasunawhich he saved from relegation in 2010-11 and also in the previous two until he left the post in 2013-14.
After a short passage through the i raisedthe technician returned to the eibar where he chained six seasons in a row and became permanent until he dropped to second place in 2021 and was no longer in charge of the club. Last year, Alavés decided to hire him mid-season to save himself, but he was sacked in April for not being able to control the situation.
Mendilibar is known for his physical and disciplined style in his teams, used to pressuring the opposing field and quickly looking for the opposite goal with a lot of prominence in play on the wing as he usually scores a 4-4 -2 used. in his teams.
Source: Goal