", American Yunus Musah misses crucial penalty as Valencia loses Copa del Rey final. [18] His official debut followed on 11 June when he appeared in Italy's 50 home win over Liechtenstein in a 2018 World Cup qualifier. He isn't hurried, but his clock is ticking. [47][48] City were also knocked out of the Champions League in the round of the last 16 for a successive season, following a 31 aggregate defeat to Barcelona. "And those moments, when you make those decisions and then communicate with the players in the proper way, those are the most important moments you have as a manager.". Such an approach over the course of a lifetime has not only fulfilled him, it has helped win football games. "We played amazing football, attacking football," right back Pablo Zabaleta says. Manuel Pellegrini is a Chilean professional football players turned manager. During his stint with the team, they won their first international title at Copa Mercosur. [8] On 9 July 2020, Spanish club Real Betis announced that he would manage the side for the 202021 season. In 2011-12, Pellegrini managed Malaga the way he'd managed Real Madrid, guiding them into the Champions League. He manages happy teams that find ways to win." Pellegrini led San Lorenzo to their first Argentine Clausura and the Copa Mercosur. Losing? [9][10] He made his debut for the club on 8 November 2015, starting in a 10 league win over Carpi,[11] and scored his first goal the following month when he netted in a 30 win over Sampdoria. But there are many who say that, whatever might have happened the rest of the season, Pellegrini's tenure at the Bernabeu was doomed that night. Across all circumstances, maybe nobody has. At City, Pellegrini was probably the longest-serving caretaker manager in football history. Joaquin, the captain and a childhood supporter, cried from the joy. Pellegrini is nicknamed "The Engineer," for the obvious reason that he is, in fact, an engineer. "But when they started working that way and they liked it, everything changed.". It works at small clubs, where there is little expectation of achievement, and maybe even better at the biggest clubs. The final was Betis 2-0 with both goals from the resurrected Willian Jose, a player with experience at Real Madrid, Real Sociedad and Wolves. "They pay for the television rights to see an entertaining game. Somehow, that team finished third, behind Barcelona and Real Madrid. When can Manchester City win the Premier League title? "Very, very important for my career," he stresses. In his second season at West Ham, his last Premier League stop, he was sacked before Christmas. These examinations revealed evidence of a fracture to the . He has done it in unique fashion, too. arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06833, 2022. On the eve of Sunday's emotional battle against Sevilla, renowned as the most intense derby in Spain, Betis stands even with third-place Atletico de Madrid at 23 points: seven points behind Barcelona, eight behind Real Madrid. Under Pellegrini, Villarreal achieved a third-place finish in La Liga in 200405, a Champions League semi-final in 200506, and broke the big two in 2008 with a second-place finish in La Liga in 200708. He managed Cristiano Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Raul, Sergio Aguero, Karim Benzema and Kaka. 621: 2013: Corruption's effect on growth and its transmission . Pellegrini initially made a shaky start, with four league losses by the end of November, but big wins against Newcastle United, Manchester United and Norwich City showed the team's potential. 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The next season, with everyone gone but Isco, he tightened his formation into a tidy 4-4-2. At that moment, he knew he needed to leave for Europe. Last winter, Betis traveled to Rayo Vallecano for a Copa del Rey semifinal. He was ready to learn if he could compete with the best in his profession. "The people are buying a ticket to see entertainment," he says. If there's a problem inside a club, he'll often start by doing nothing. Yes, they were only 11. as "a very small team in a very small town." So what happened at West Ham? Pellegrini is an academy graduate of Roma, having joined the club in 2007, and made his senior debut in 2015. "I've never had a problem," he says. An early Lorenzo Pellegrini penalty was enough to see Roma leapfrog Udinese and city rival Lazio and move to within four points of Serie A . Pellegrini has won at historically undersized clubs, like Villarreal and Malaga. Looking back, you'll find famous names on many of his team sheets, but most of those weren't famous when Pellegrini arrived. [59] In the Premier League, having presided over four defeats at the start of the 201819 season, Pellegrini oversaw his first win on 16 September with a 31 win over Everton. Man United in pole position for top four, but can't take their eyes off Liverpool, Kealia, J.J. 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[46], Despite sharing the top spot in the Premier League on New Year's Day, Manchester City suffered a dip in form in the second half of the season and claimed just 18 points from a possible 36. One game early in Pellegrini's tenure stands out by its sheer illogic. During the three years he spent at Manchester City, revving the engine for Pep Guardiola, he won the Premier League and two League Cups. After their fourth league loss against Sunderland on 10 November 2013, City went on a 20-match unbeaten streak (in all competitions), which included a 60 win over Tottenham Hotspur, a 32 away win at European champions Bayern Munich, and a 63 win over league leaders Arsenal. It didn't matter. The idea of winning LaLiga ahead of superclubs Real Madrid and Barcelona remains unlikely, if not laughable. Conservation letters 6 (4), 274-279, 2013. In the early years of the Emirati regime, there were big signings and contract disputes and the public pursuit of Guardiola, all punctuated by Mancini's volatility. "Reading, traveling, visiting museums, the beach," he says. He knows what's happening. They beat Rangers and Inter Milan in the elimination rounds, then lost to Arsenal 1-0 in a semifinal. Looking back, you'll find famous names on many of his team sheets, but most of those weren't famous when Pellegrini arrived. The title winning season was also noted for goal scoring prowess with Manchester City scoring 151 goals in all competitions an English football record. "It's a club I will never forget," he says. 66,04 Villarreal: 1 Juli 2004 . That started while he was at Universidad de Chile. Abdullah al-Thani, a Qatari sheikh, bought the club with the intent of challenging Real Madrid and Barcelona. While Pellegrini hasn't sustained any significant injuries this season, he has been troubled by inflammation in his left knee; an issue that nearly cost him Roma's recent matches against Bod/Glimt and Venezia. Manuel Lis Pellegrini Ripamonti ( Spanish pronunciation: [manwel peleini]; Italian: [pellerini]; born 16 September 1953) is a Chilean professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Real Betis. As a manager, Pellegrini isn't often mentioned with Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Jurgen Klopp or Carlo Ancelotti because he doesn't have the hardware. Years after Lilleshall, he described taking the course as the best decision he'd ever made. And with his recent contract extension and no noteworthy competitors in the team, it looks like Pellegrini will remain Roma's capitano for quite some time . -- advanced through the Champions League group stage and into the quarterfinals. "If you don't know him, maybe you think, 'That coach is letting it fester.' There he managed well-known players such as Alberto Acosta and Nestor Gorosito and took the team to victory in the prestigious Copa Interamericana in 1994 and the 1995 Copa Chile, though he could only finish as runner-up in 1994 and 1995 of the local Campeonato Nacional championship, a competition organized by the Chilean Football Federation in parallel to the Primera Division. He regrets only that he didn't finish out the season, for the first time since he arrived in Europe. [54], On 19 May 2018, Hebei China Fortune confirmed Pellegrini had left the club. Then he went to Club Universidad de Chile where he would play professionally for them as a defender. He led Mlaga to a fourth-place finish in his first full season and to qualification for the UEFA Champions League. Pellegrini commented, "I am proud to manage Manchester City FC and am therefore very pleased to have agreed to this contract. [5][7], On 30 June 2015, Pellegrini signed for fellow Serie A side Sassuolo for a fee of 1.25 million. Real Madrid lost to a Segunda B team. ", Unai Emery, who has coached more games against him than anyone else, says Pellegrini's teams invariably reflect the personality of their manager. . But he isn't fully consumed by football. He was confident that his managerial future would be far from Chile. The site lists all clubs he coached and all clubs he played for. Betis has washed the memory clean. Real Madrid wants its managers to live and die with the club. [58] His first win with the club came in an EFL Cup match against AFC Wimbledon on 28 August. He had terrible luck.". Lorenzo Pellegrini. "We controlled the game, fullbacks overlapping all the time. He had talented players --- the young Declan Rice, Javier Hernandez, Arnautovic -- but couldn't piece them into a coherent whole. The recommendation paid dividends as Pellegrini led San Lorenzo to victory in the Argentine Clausura and the Copa Mercosur, South America's UEFA Cup equivalent. "To have an aggressive team that plays aggressive football, that leaves the changing room with every intention of winning. [citation needed], Pellegrini was capped once by the Chile national team,[11] starting in a 11 friendly draw away to Brazil on 7 May 1986. "When he came in, everyone said he should change the system," says Betis's Rodri, who isn't even the best-known Rodri among Spanish footballers. Trivia He received his first managing role with the Universidad de Childe in 1988, two years after retiring from the game. "It makes you understand how you must think to be successful. Lorenzo Pellegrini, Italian footballer Luca Pellegrini (disambiguation), several people Lucas Pellegrini, French footballer Lucio Pellegrini, Italian director Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Italian painter Manuel Pellegrini, Chilean football manager and former player Marco Pellegrini, Dominican friar Massimo Pellegrini, Italian footballer "And those moments, when you make those decisions and then communicate with the players in the proper way, those are the most important moments you have as a manager.". It makes us calm. Lorenzo Pellegrini. "For me, maybe 90% of being a successful manager is the way you manage the group. And Betis, not a squad deep with talent, also has Europa League games to play. He has his acknowledged classics, his underrated gems, the one or two noble failures. "They make the difference. Our goalkeeper parried the shot of a rival player, I jumped to clear the ball, and behind me came a 17-year-old boy who jumped half a metre above me, and scored. ", His body of work is less like that of a manager than a painter or an author. [citation needed], Pellegrini managed Argentine club River Plate from 2002 to 2003 and secured the Clausura championships in 2003, in which he utilised the talents of Andrs D'Alessandro, one of many Argentine playmakers to have been likened to Diego Maradona. He [Prez] sold players that I considered important. [65], On 9 July 2020, it was announced that Pellegrini would become the manager of Real Betis in La Liga ahead of the 202021 season, replacing Alexis Trujillo who had served as an interim coach following the dismissal of Rubi the previous month. [17] As in his career as a professional player, he also started off coaching Universidad de Chile during the 1988 season, but left the team at the middle of the season to take football coaching courses in Europe. In 2008, they finished second in LaLiga, ahead of Barcelona. Then he abruptly changed course, and everyone but Isco was gone. Some of his admirers, including many leading managers, marvel at what he accomplished at Villarreal or Malaga. On the final day, Universidad lost again and was relegated for the first time in its history -- because of goal difference. He lasted a single season. That changed in 1979, when the club managed to win the championship and secure a spot for the 1980 Copa Libertadores, defeating its arch-rival Colo-Colo in both tournaments. [9], His son, Manuel Pellegrini Pucci, is a traumatologist who works in the medical staff of Audax Italiano since 2022. He started his formative years as a footballer in the youth divisions of Audax Italiano. It gave Barcelona a lead it never relinquished. Pellegrini received the honor in the course of last season (at the age of 24) when Fonseca opted for Lorenzo as captain after the famous row with Dzeko. Because, as he always reminds his players, there's more to life than football for footballers, too. In Pellegrini's second season, Betis won the Copa Del Rey for just the third time ever. Pellegrini has won at historically undersized clubs, like Villarreal and Malaga. Prior to joining Care Capital, Dr. Pellegrini was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University, where he investigated the molecular basis of neuronal signaling and receptor internalization. - Real Betis vs. Sevilla (Sunday 3 p.m. But he saw it. Nearly everyone, it seems, is rooting for him to take Betis somewhere special. Done. However, in the first Premier League game of the season, Pellegrini suffered a heavy 50 defeat against his former club, Manchester City. "He has the patience to say, 'Let's wait two or three days,'" says David Alvarez, the athletic trainer at Betis, who worked with Guardiola at Barcelona and later at NYCFC. It's hard to tell. Pellegrini is also a member of the Italian national squad. "He talks to us. . [57] In his first game as West Ham manager, on 12 August, the team lost 40 away to Liverpool. That difference? He brought in big names -- van Nistelrooy and Isco, Nacho Monreal and Santi Cazorla. Everything he would do, he points out, he is doing already. He visits art museums wherever he travels, took a managerial job in China so he could immerse himself in that culture, flew to Spain for a day while living in Manchester to swim in the Mediterranean. He is motivated by aesthetics, whether he finds that in the Italian Renaissance portraits he favors or a perfectly delivered cross with a spectacular finish. On 5 November, he was officially presented as the new coach of Mlaga during a press conference with the club's owner Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani,[27] and watched from the stands as they lost 10 to Espanyol the following day. Pellegrini wins with stars. [4][5][6] Having previously represented the club in the UEFA Youth League, he was handed his senior debut at the age of 18 by manager Rudi Garcia on 22 March 2015, coming on as a second-half substitute for Salih Uan in a 10 Serie A win over Cesena. Pellegrini was already a mid-life manager -- at 49, almost as old as Pep Guardiola is now -- when he, when he won Argentina's Clausura while at River Plate. But I will always want to manage. [63] In September 2019, they were knocked out from the EFL Cup, losing 40 to Oxford United of League One. 50, Sources: Slot rivals Nagelsmann for Spurs job, Arrest made after fan wields chainsaw in stands, Kealia, J.J. 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His way to sort it out is to wait until exactly the right time. He doesn't feel the pressure to hurry. As a coach, he has managed teams in Spain, England, Argentina, Chile, China and Ecuador. On 22 May 2013, Pellegrini confirmed he would leave Mlaga at the end of the 201213 La Liga season. San Lorenzo Manager: 00/01 (Feb 15, 2001) 01/02 (Jun 30, 2002) 13: 1.23: LDU Quito . ISS, Erasmus University. "[38] Upon joining Manchester City, Pellegrini became only the fifth coach from outside of Europe to manage in the Premier League, and the first Chilean.[39]. He is a versatile player who can If we have a secret to what we are doing, that's what it is.". "In a difficult moment, he takes a pause," Joaquin says. City had won its first Premier League under Roberto Mancini. [14], On 30 June 2017, Roma exercised the buy back clause of 10 million, which was included in Pellegrini's transfer agreement with Sassuolo, to bring him back to Rome on a five-year deal. Now Pellegrini is winning at Betis, a club so steeped in failure that its motto in the Andalusian dialect is manqu pierda. But what he did before that at diminutive Malaga might have been more remarkable. ", He observes the game with his arms folded, gesturing only occasionally. On 31 May 2009, after the last La Liga match for Villarreal, Pellegrini said: "Nobody from Real Madrid has spoken with me. He managed the club to a national title in 1999, starting a tradition of coaches that followed him to the Ecuadorian team. Guardiola pronounced himself a "huge fan.". "You win the game when you let the good players play," Pellegrini explains. Manuel was born on 19 September 1953. During the 201617 season, Pellegrini became the youngest player to have a hand in 10 goals in a single Serie A campaign, having registered six goals and four assists by 10 April 2017. [42], On 18 January 2014, City surpassed 100 goals for the season, in all competitions, in just 34 games the quickest century in the Premier League era, beating Chelsea's 201213 record by eight matches. You must think like an engineer. And I brought it back to South America, and I kept working on it." The whole thing was like a fairy tale. It's yet another triumph for a system that depends less on strategic innovation than treating his players like the grown-ups he assumes them to be. Have you seen Pellegrini lately? "He has modernized because football has modernized," he says. [28] On 11 November 2010, he made his Mlaga debut as coach against Hrcules in a 32 victory in the Copa del Rey at La Rosaleda stadium, which led them to the round of 16 after the teams had drawn 00 in the first leg at Estadio Jos Rico Prez two weeks previously,[29] and continued his winning start as new coach of Malaga by beating Levante 10 in his league debut four days later. This is the profile site of the manager Manuel Pellegrini. No! "I think," he says, "he's the best in the world. To anyone who has been paying attention, he has demonstrated enough. I enjoyed playing for him very much.". In 1990, Arturo Salah was appointed as the manager of the Chile national team, and he hired Pellegrini as his assistant coach and manager of the under-20 team. [citation needed], Pellegrini took over the managerial duties of Villarreal CF on 1 July 2004. When you make a decision in a tense moment, you must be cold, not hot. After a few days, Pellegrini bought Kak from Milan, saying, "If we want to win the Champions League and be the best team in the world, we need the best players in the world. Then it grinds them up and spits them out regardless. He taught his players what he'd learned in England, including ways of moving without the ball that weren't in fashion in . Across all circumstances, maybe nobody has. He was dismissed after one season and later lamented the Galcticos policy employed at Real which prevented him from building a balanced team. Manuel Pellegrini: 'England is the best league but the best football is played in Spain' Sid Lowe The former Manchester City manager will renew acquaintances with United when he leads out Real. The Beticos are among the most fervent fans in Europe, responding to even incremental gains with an outpouring of emotion. [53] He took charge of his first match on 10 September 2016 in a home game against Guangzhou Evergrande, which Hebei lost 30. In the early years of the Emirati regime, there were big signings and contract disputes and the public pursuit of Guardiola, all punctuated by Mancini's volatility. When you make a decision in a tense moment, you must be cold, not hot. Manuel's childhood was spend in Chile and he completed his education from there itself. He dedicated the trophy to the team's staff, the coaches and even the cooks. "When he came in, everyone said he should change the system," says Betis's Rodri, who isn't even the best-known Rodri among Spanish footballers. Pellegrini led El Submarino Amarillo to the Champions League knockout stages, where they drew Arsenal once again in the quarter-finals, losing 41 on aggregate. "A lot of people think it's more difficult when you have a lot of successful players," Pellegrini says. He's one of the few managers who is able to gain respect from even the most intractable talents. There's been speculation over whether Lorenzo Pellegrini should be the heir to Roma's number 10 shirt, but wearing the number 7 that Conti wore won't be lost on Lorenzo. His tranquility seems preternatural; Iglesias, who has been playing for him since 2020, says he has never heard him raise his voice. In 2019, they finished 15th, playing in their usual dismal style. The Spanish daily Marca named this match "Alcorconazo" and went on to make many teasing references to Pellegrini. At Lilleshall, he'd learned how to create an attack in tight spaces, a tactical weapon he would carry with him everywhere he went. "Manuel explains to each player inside the changing room what his role will be, and why he is important. New articles related to this author's research. ET; stream LIVE on ESPN+) One game early in Pellegrini's tenure stands out by its sheer illogic. "In how I want my team to play, I try to reflect the admiration I have for artists and art," he says. Lorenzo Pellegrini ( Italian pronunciation: [lorntso pellerini]; [2] [3] born 19 June 1996) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder and is captain for Serie A club Roma. @ plays for the team . "He has the patience to say, 'Let's wait two or three days,'" says David Alvarez, the athletic trainer at Betis, who worked with Guardiola at Barcelona and later at NYCFC. And then -- and this is the crucial step -- he makes that clear. Despite losing Cristiano Ronaldo for nearly two months, it was one of Real Madrid's most productive in its history: a club record of 96 points in LaLiga, including a run of 12 wins in a row from January to April. [9], Born in Santiago,[1] to Italian parents, Pellegrini attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago,[10] where he graduated in civil engineering in 1979.
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