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Emery (Hondarribia, 1971) continued to make history yesterday at the stadium of Arsenal, in which he did not succeed as a coach, by classifying the Villarreal for the first final in the club's history Castellon. For the technician hondarribiarra It was the most similar to completing a procedure since for him it will be the fifth final in this competition of his award-winning career. No coach has played more finals in the Europa League in which he has been champion three times. If you win at Manchester
United will be the coach with the most titles of Europe
League of history beating Giovanni
Trapattoni (3) which is also the second with the most directed endings (3).
But above the undoubted feat of Emery, the match between Arsenal and the Villarreal played in the Emirates He left another photograph for the story. That of two coaches from Gipuzkoa on the benches fighting side by side to qualify for the Europa Legue final. Two former Real players that, with different careers on the bench, are now in charge of two important clubs in the international arena. For more INRI, Imanol
Idiakez (Donostia, 1971), also a Txuri Urdin youth squad, is the second of Emery that yesterday surpassed a Mikel
Arteta (Donostia, 1982) that, after taking his first steps on the benches as an assistant Guardiola, is about to end his first full campaign at the helm of Arsenal, in which he retired as a player in 2016 and which he took over mid-last season. Failure to qualify for the final of the Europe
League It is a hard blow for the San Sebastian since the “Gunners”, ninth in the league with four games to go, will not play in European competition next season except for a miracle.
Eleven years older than Arteta, the trajectory of Emery on the benchesLorca, Almería, Valencia, Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, PSG, Arsenal and Villarreal) is much more extensive than that of his rival last night, who is taking his first steps as a coach. They have something else in common in their past as Real players, where they did not succeed. Emery, who came to dispute 95 games with Sanse Come in 1990 and 1996, debuted with Salva Iriarte with the first team, with which however he only played six games, scoring a goal, before starting a successful career in Second and Second B in the Toledo, Racing de Ferrol, Leganés and Lorca.
The curriculum of Arteta as a footballer he is much more polished. He bet as a child to go to The
Farmhouse to try to succeed at Barcelona, and his extensive career spanned clubs prestigious like the Paris saint germain, Glasgow
Rangers, Everton or Arsenal. Like a Emery, surely, he had the thorn of not succeeding in the Real. The txuri urdin club signed him with great fanfare in 2004 to compensate for the march of Xabi Alonso but Arteta he did not adapt well, he ended up without playing and, after playing only 17 games, in the winter market on 05/04 he was loaned to Everton who bought it in the summer of 2005.
Yes Emery Y Arteta they remembered some old passage in the Real on the lawn of Emirates, only they know it. The only sure thing is that the man from Honduras imposed his greatest experience and teaching on the man from Donostia, who will not have it easy to emulate the successful career of his executioner.