Shortly before the disaster, DortmundSevilla announced that everyone knows: Julen Lopetegui, Sitting on the bench against the German team knowing it will be his last game. jorge sampaoli The head of a living club takes his place in the second stage. worst moments from recent years.

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this treacherous planning with the sale of two stoppers earlier this summer (Diego Carlos and Koundé) and the negative inertia from last year brought forward the Basque coach, who was perhaps the least culpable of the crisis.

commendable career

«Lopetegui will forever remain at the top of Seville’s history. Big success in Europa League In the 2019-20 season, he is the first to lift an international title at Nervión in the position that allows seven coaches to enter his elite club,” the club explained in a farewell statement to the coach. This isn’t Julen’s only valuable truth in Pizjuán.

In addition to being the manager of Sevilla’s sixth Europa League winner, Three in a row for champions. He has the best defeat percentage in the club’s history and is the player with the best score in a season in the League. With Sevilla jersey, he got 89 wins, 45 draws and 36 losses in 170 matches.

on the verge of landing

Everything was complicated in this sad season. Inside Europe, the team adds one goal and one point in three games against 8. Just a great finish in the group stage that started with a victory in Dortmund on the next match day, you can avoid elimination. Now seems the most plausible target third row, This would give access to the Europa League, the Andalusian fetish competition.

In the League, it doesn’t make things better. Sevilleon the verge of landing, adds five points for a win in seven games. A stadium that has always been tough for any opponent, Pizjuán has become a bargain for all visitors.

“Always in your heart”

Twelve hours after he was sacked, Lopetegui said goodbye with a ceremony held in the stadium’s foyer. « I don’t scrap paper. I say what I feel. we delivered here part of our life. This is our profession. I’ll take this tribute with me forever, it will footprints in my heart», said the coach, reminding Pizjuán of his arrival after a while. Negotiation with Monchi in Madrid.

“I’m a the chosen one for everything he lived. I wish you best of the world to my club and my people. The team will reverse situation. I’ll be there clapping and feeling part of it all. Here it is lovelista for life,” he added.

sampaoli, At 62, he takes the reins. They are coming along with the Argentinian coach. Jorge Desio, Diogo Meschine and Pablo Fernandezwill be part of the coaching team. Sign by 2024 on the challenge of smoothing the course of a crushed block. already managed in the 2016-17 season, He scored a historic first round (42 points) that helped him place fourth in the Champions League final, 21 points behind champions Madrid.

‘Sampa’ crazes

Managed after Sevilla argentina national team He fell in the second round of the last World Cup against France. then gone saints and Atlético Mineiro before signing MarseilleA club he left last summer due to differences in transfer policy.

In Seville, his methods will not surprise you at all. You already know maniacs the restless technician of countless analyzes and tattoos. They will return endless journeys side by side, their exchange suit with fitted tracksuithis inseparable horn-rimmed glasses… mat in the dressing room or strawthe usual oddities in a trainer that leaves no one indifferent.