Manuel Pellegrini
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Málaga (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1973–1986 | Universidad de Chile | 451 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 1986-1987 | Chile | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Universidad de Chile | ||
| 1990–1991 | Palestino | ||
| 1992–1993 | O'Higgins | ||
| 1994–1996 | Universidad Católica | ||
| 1999–2000 | LDU Quito | ||
| 2001–2002 | San Lorenzo | ||
| 2002–2003 | River Plate | ||
| 2004–2009 | Villarreal | ||
| 2009–2010 | Real Madrid | ||
| 2010– | Málaga | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti (born 16 September 1953) is a Chilean former footballer and current manager of Málaga.
Club career
Born in Santiago, Pellegrini attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago,[1] where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1979.
As a footballer, he played his entire career for Universidad de Chile, making a total of 451 appearances, scoring 1 goal.
Managerial career
As a coach, he has managed teams mostly in Argentina and Chile. San Lorenzo obtained their first international title while Pellegrini was manager.
Chile
He started coaching Universidad de Chile during the 1988 season, a year in which he unfortunately lost the category, a very disappointing situation for one of the most popular clubs in the country. After coaching Palestino and O`Higgins, he became coach of Universidad Catolica, another one of the biggest clubs from Chile, and he had an amazing team with players such as Alberto Acosta and Nestor Gorosito, but he could only finish as runner-up during 1994 and 1995 seasons.
LDU Quito
Pellegrini coached Ecuadorian club LDU Quito to a national title in 1999, starting a tradition of coaches that followed him to the Ecuadorian team. He had a good presentation in Copa Libertadores with the team that put him in the eye of GMs of other South American teams.
San Lorenzo
The years with Universidad Catolica were fundamental in his career as Nestor Gorosito, an Icon of San Lorenzo of Argentina, would later on recommend Pellegrini to the team and his recommendation would reap rewards when the Chilean coach led Los Cuervos to the 2001 Clausura title and the Copa Mercosur, South America's UEFA Cup equivalent.
River Plate
Pellegrini secured the Clausura championships at Los Milionarios (2003) in which he utilised the talents of Andres D'Alessandro, one of many Argentine playmakers to have been likened to Diego Maradona. However his sale to Vfl Wolfsburg proved a tough hurdle for Pellegrini to overcome and his side struggled to defend their status as Argentine champions in the 2003 Torneo Apertura. He quit his post at the end of the campaign.
Villarreal
Pellegrini took over the managerial duties of Villarreal on July 1, 2004. In his first season in charge of the club, Villarreal qualified for the Champions League after finishing third in the league and reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. The following season Villarreal reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2005-06, losing to Arsenal. Villarreal eventually finished seventh in La Liga that year. The following two seasons featured Villarreal finishing in both 5th and 2nd place in the league, the latter being historic for the club. Pellegrini led "The Yellow Submarines" to the Champions league knockout stages, where they drew Arsenal once again in the quarter-finals, losing out 4-1 on aggregate.
According to percentage of points gained, Pellegrini is the second most successful South American club manager in La Liga within the last 25 years, coming after Vanderlei Luxemburgo.[2]
At the end of 2007, Villarreal offered him an extended contract until 2011. On May 31, 2009, after the last La Liga match for Villareal, Pellegrini said "nobody from Real Madrid has spoken with me. I have a contract with Villarreal, we finished the league today, and tomorrow we go on holiday", after being inquired by the press.[3] On June 1, 2009, Villareal executive announced that Pellegrini would no longer continue at the club. The Valencian club executive specified that if Real Madrid wanted to sign the Chilean coach, they would have to pay Pellegrini's 4 million euros termination clause.[4]
Real Madrid
Despite announcing he was leaving on holidays, Pellegrini was announced on June 1, 2009 as Real Madrid's new manager with his formal presentation to follow on June 2.[5] He joined Real Madrid as the first manager in Florentino Pérez's second stint as Real Madrid president. After a few days, Pellegrini scouted Kaká from AC Milan because he said "If we want to win the Champions League and be the best team in the world, we need the best players in the world".[6] They later bought Cristiano Ronaldo for £80million from Manchester United later that transfer window, and Karim Benzema from Olympique Lyonnais for £30million. Despite the club's record spending they were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League in the round of 16, for the sixth time in a row, being beaten 2-1 on aggregate by Olympique Lyonnais. In La Liga Madrid achieved a club record of 96 points, however it was not enough to finish above Barcelona, who won the championship with 99 points. He was sacked by the club on 26 May 2010.[7]
Malaga CF
On November 5th, after coach Jesualdo Ferreira was fired, Pellegrini was named the new coach of Malaga CF.[8]
Honours
Manager
- Copa Interamericana: 1994
- Copa Chile: 1995
- Serie A: 1999
- Primera División: 2001 Clausura
- Copa Mercosur: 2001
- Primera División: 2003 Clausura
- Individual
- Miguel Muñoz Trophy for the Best Coach of the Year: 2008
Manager
- As of 11 November 2010
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Villarreal | 
|
1 July 2004 | 31 May 2009 | 259 | 123 | 72 | 64 | 47.49 |
| Real Madrid |
|
2 June 2009 | 26 May 2010 | 48 | 36 | 5 | 7 | 75.00 |
| Málaga |
|
5 November 2010 | Present | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Total | error | 159 | 77 | 71 | 51.46 | |||
References
- ^ http://www.emol.com/noticias/deportes/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=363322
- ^ Template:Es icon http://www.latercera.cl/contenido/82_10905_9.shtml
- ^ "Pellegrini denies Madrid talks". USA Today. May 30, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ Pellegrini neuer Real-Coach Template:De icon
- ^ Official Communication
- ^ "Real appoint Pellegrini as coach". BBC Sport. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
- ^ "Real Madrid clear the way for Jose Mourinho". BBC Sport. 2010-05-26. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ "Manuel Pellegrini agrees to coach Malaga in La Liga coup - Europe - ESPN Soccernet". soccernet.espn.go.com. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
External links
- 1953 births
- Universidad de Chile players
- Living people
- Chilean footballers
- Chile international footballers
- Chilean football managers
- Chilean people of Italian descent
- San Lorenzo managers
- River Plate managers
- LDU Quito managers
- Villarreal CF managers
- Real Madrid C.F. managers
- Expatriate football managers in Spain
- People from Santiago