FILE: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Chilean Manuel Pellegrini is handed the coaching job at Real Madrid by returning president Florentino Perez

Record ID: 722453

  • Title: FILE: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Chilean Manuel Pellegrini is handed the coaching job at Real Madrid by returning president Florentino Perez
  • Date: 3rd June 2009
  • Summary: LONDON, UK (FILE APRIL 2009) (REUTERS) MANUEL PELLEGRINI WATCHING VILLAREAL TRAINING SESSION TRAINING VILLAREAL SQUAD TRAINING PELLEGRINI IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PITCH AT THE EMIRATES STADIUM PELLEGRINI ENTERS NEWS CONFERENCE PELLEGRINI SPEAKING
  • Embargoed: 18th June 2009 13:00
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  • Topics: Sports
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  • Story Text: Manuel Pellegrini has been named the new coach of Real Madrid, the Primera Liga club said on their website (www.realmadrid.com) on Monday (June 1).
    Chilean Pellegrini will leave Villarreal to take over at the Bernabeu and will become the cornerstone of a new sporting project being put together by Florentino Perez, who was sworn in for a second spell as president earlier in the day.
    Spanish media reported that Real would pay Villarreal four million euros in compensation.
    Pellegrini joined Villarreal from River Plate in 2004 and has won praise for bringing through young talent, playing an attractive brand of possession football and making modest Villarreal a fixture in European competitions.
    He led them to runners-up spot behind Real Madrid in the Primera Liga in 2008 and steered them to the Champions League semi-finals in 2006 and the quarter-finals this year, where they lost to Arsenal.
    The 55-year-old replaces Juande Ramos, who was appointed until the end of the season after Bernd Schuster was sacked in December.
    The pressure will be on Pellegrini to quickly rebuild the nine-times European champions, making them into a team capable of challenging treble-winners and fierce rivals Barcelona.
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