Lopetegui left Seville and Sampaoli hits the lead

Lopetegui left Seville and Sampaoli hits the lead

“Julen Lopetegui is no longer the manager of Sevilla FC. THANK YOU JULEN”reads the brief text that the Sevillian club published through its official Twitter account at the end of the game with the Germans and that accompanies a photo of the Basque coach with a trophy in his hands.

Lopetegui qualified Sevilla for the Champions League during the three complete seasons in which he directed it, 2019-20, 20-21 and 21-22, because in all of them he finished fourth in LaLiga, and in the first of them, the most outstanding , won the Europa League title against Inter, from Italy, precisely that Cup is the one shown in the aforementioned photograph.

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And simultaneously the Diario de Sevilla, as well as Marca 48 hours ago, anticipated that sampaoli He has already closed an agreement to return to the club.

Sampaoli, The 62-year-old, who has successfully managed Olympique Marseille being second to Paris Saint Germain in the French league, asked as the main conditions for his return the assembly of his coaching staff and the setting of “coherent” objectives based on the squad that it has, among its players several Argentines such as Alejandro Gómez, Marcos Acuña, Gonzalo Montiel and Erik Lamela.

The man from Casildense already managed Sevilla with good success also in the 2016-2017 season, when he ranked fourth, qualifying for the Champions League, with 21 wins, 9 draws and 8 losses.

in that step Sampaoli, Born in the Santa Fe town of Casilda on March 13, 1960, he ended up rescinding the contract to take over the technical direction of the Argentine team, the only place in his professional career in which he was not successful, since before and after his performance was also notable. task at the University of Chile and the selection of that country (it achieved the first Copa América in its history), Santos and Atlético Mineiro, from Brazil.

In addition to the last place in Group G of the Champions League at the end of the first round with only one point, sampaoli He will also have to overcome the very poor pace of the Sevillians in LaLiga, where after seven games he only added five points and ranks 16th. place.

As for the future of Lopetegui, the same Spanish media announced the possibility of immediately joining the Premier League, since there would be a specific offer of Wolverhampton.

Source: Ambito

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