The passion of Monchi and Lopetegui

This will be an intense Holy Week for Monchi and Julen Lopetegui, and not only in terms of football, with the arrival of Real Madrid at Sánchez-Pizjuán next Easter Sunday. After two years without processions due to the pandemic, Sevilla’s sports director and coach will have the opportunity to cultivate another of their passions during these days.

To Asteasu He has already been seen with his family several times, in the center of Seville, enjoying the Sevillian brotherhoods. Also this Wednesday, on a balcony in La Campana, together with President José Castro. Something that the Basque had not been able to do since he arrived at the Nervión club in the summer of 2019. “I want to enjoy the magnificent traditions of Seville and feel them on those Easter dates. coastal? That’s going to be more complicated.” Julen told AS just a few months ago, in November of last year. And he is already fulfilling that dream.

Not as a costalero, but as a ‘charger’, which it is as it is called in San Fernando, Monchi will leave during the early hours of Thursday to Good Friday in his native town. The Virgen de los Dolores has ‘signed’ the Nervionense sports director, who has been linked to this brotherhood for many decades, that of Forgiveness in La Casería. A little over three months ago, Monchi also acted as King Baltasar in the procession of the Three Wise Men in Seville.

Monchi He is also the brother of San Bernardo, a brotherhood geographically very close to the Sánchez-Pizjuán and to which it belongs for more than 30 years. As usual, the man from Cádiz attended the floral offering that the club makes before the start of the procession, which takes place on Holy Wednesday through the streets of Seville.