Manuel Pellegrini, new Betis coach

He Real
Betis
Football has signed the Chilean coach Manuel
Pellegrini to lead the verdiblanco team from next season. The contract linking Pellegrini with the entity of Heliópolis lasts until June 30, 2023.

Manuel Pellegrini Ripamonti (Santiago de Chile, 1953), who it was known days ago that he would come to Betis, developed his career as a player at the University of Chile. With the U he played 451 league games for 13 years, getting to play a game with the national team. As a coach he debuted at the club his entire life in 1988 to subsequently coach Palestino, O'Higgins, Universidad Católica and again Palestino. In 1999 he began his international career in the University League of Quito, from where he jumped into Argentine football to successfully direct San Lorenzo de Almagro and River Plate.

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Del Monumental made the leap to Europe in April 2004, assuming the leadership of Villarreal. In the five years that he remains at Madrigal, he obtains a third and a second league position, in addition to an Intertoto Cup and the dispute of the Champions League semifinals against Arsenal in 2006. De Villarreal passes to Real Madrid in 2009, where he remains a season. In 2010 he signed for Málaga, where the dispute of the Champions League quarterfinals stands out.

From 2013 his adventure in England begins. In his first year at Manchester City, he obtained the Premier League title and the League Cup. In his second season he wins the League Cup again. Between 2016 and 2018 he heads the Hebei China Fortune of the Chinese Super League and between 2018 and 2019 he occupies the bench of West Ham United.

In his record he has a Chile Cup, an Ecuador League, two Clausura tournaments in Argentina, a Premier League and two League Cups in England, in addition to an Inter-American Cup.

Real Betis bets on a high-level technician and great international prestige to raise the level of performance of the first team, framed in a three-year project.