Manuel Pellegrini I picked up the Miguel Muoz Award As the best coach of the 2021-22 season. A prize shared with Carlo Ancelottiwhich was the great absence of the gala that took place at the Goya Theater in Madrid and with which he achieved 69 points at the top of the technical classification.
Pellegrini, who received the cup from Juan Ignacio Gallardo, director of MARCA, and Alejandro Blanco, president of the COE, already has two awards MARCA, because they won it previously in the 2007-08 season, when he was coach of Villarreal. Only four coaches, in addition to him, have managed to repeat the award (Guardiola, Mourinho and Marcelino, who have two, and Simeone, with three)which speaks of Pellegrini’s category.
“Thank you very much, It is an honor to receive this award for the second time in a country like Spainwhere I have been able to be in four different clubs where I have always been very well received”, he said as soon as he collected the award.
Pellegrini remembered his wifea constant support in his professional career: “I have been working outside of Chile for 23 years and my wife has sacrificed a lot and has been a fundamental support”.
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The Chilean coach thus obtains recognition for his great campaign with Betisto which got back into the Europa League improving the numbers of the previous course, in addition to win the King’s Cup in Seville against Valencia, ending a drought without a title at the club since 2005.
We don’t have the economic reality for the Champions League, but we do have a sporting reality
“Betis fans are very passionate and their team deserves to be in these vanguard positions. The rivalry with Sevilla does football very well, but always within the sporting sphere. We don’t have the economic reality for the Champions League, but we do have a sporting reality,” he said about Betis’ chances of entering the Champions League this season.
The ‘Ingeniero’ is a classic LaLiga coach, in which he has been a part in more than 400 games spread over four teams (Villarreal, Real Madrid, Mlaga and Betis), becoming the fourth foreign coach in history with the most matches. And there is Pellegrini for a while, as he was in charge of confirming: “I hope to continue for many more seasons.”
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