Pellegrini: “The move Mourinho made I made ten years ago”

Manuel Pellegrinitechnician of Real Betisspoke about his Italian origins and his differences with Mourinho -whose faces will be seen again this Thursday at European League– in an interview given to La Gazzetta dello Sport. “My Italian roots come from Rome. my grandfather came chilli when he was five years old and his mother was from Rome. But I think he is not related to the captain of Rome because they told me that Pellegrini in Rome many… Instead, the ripamonti, of my maternal grandparents, they came from North. I speak Italian and I understand Italian. I came to do the coaching course Covercian in 1985 with Very thinI traveled the length and breadth of Italytogether Rome, which is an incredible city that never ceases to amaze you. You can walk thirty times and you will always see something you have never seen before…”, he said Pellegrini about his Italian origins.

Italy This is one of the countries where the Chilean has never trained, although he will do so a few times, when Milan already owned Rome. “It is my great regret. I miss it, I think about it often. And it doesn’t mean you don’t know anymore, because with Legs I have a contract until 2025 and I respect my contracts. In the past I have been close to Milan but a change of ownership was involved and I went on China. And he looked for me too Rome but I got in Asia and I didn’t think it was right to leave them lying around”, explained Pellegrini.

The Chilean was asked for his big difference in Mourinhowhich begins as it replaced with real Madrid: “Mourinho is a coach who had a brilliant career and went to Rome he made a mature choice. I remembered that after training real Madrid I went to Malaga and he replaced me, said he would never coach a team like him Malaga. A phrase that went viral, as they say today. I’m proud to have gone Malaga because I live on challenges and that was a new project and we reached the quarterfinals of the Champions. I believe that Mourinho Pretty much the same thing happened to him: he was in the football elite and now he also lives with challenges, like getting Rome in Champions or win at Conference League. It has been done with the players who brought him up: he never went down, but he had conflicting exits at all the last big clubs he was at. For this reason the choice of Rome It was a step of great maturity, in my opinion, a step I took ten years ago before going Malaga. And now the Rome He has a great coach who will accompany him on a certain leap in quality. For me it is an obvious goal because they are getting good players Dybala“.

Pellegrini compared to Rome Y Real Betisas well as their ardent fans: “Because of the passion that both teams have developed, yes. The Rome won the Meeting and we, the Copa del Rey. We have big stadiums that are always full and for Legs This enthusiasm, in my opinion, should find an economic response from the club. In my phase at the beginning we only took free players and this year we had problems signing new ones for the economic control of The leaguebut we are on the right track”. Regarding this Thursday’s game, Pellegrini says “it is complex and decisive. There are six main points. Rome He has the qualities of his coach: he defends well and aggressively looks to surprise the opponents in the counterattack”.