Marcelino Garcia Toral, The coach of Villarreal, the team that faces Celta in Balaídos in Liga, will follow the said match 400 matches in a bank of the First Division.
The Asturian coach fulfills his fourteenth period in the highest category of Spanish football where he debuted, at the head of Entertainment of Huelva, with a 1-1 draw at El Colombino against Mallorca on August 27, 2006.
Currently, Marcelino is with him second stage at the bank Villarrealwhere he arrived in November 2023, and before that he led the team for three seasons, from 2013 to 2016, so the Castellón team led the most games in 134 games.
With 399 matches played so far, the coach has won 164, tied 116 and lost 119, with 532 goals for and 452 against.
His best season in terms of points was the one he signed in 2017-2018 in Valenciawhen he finished fourth in the championship with 73 points and thus reached a place to compete in the Champions League, a feat he also achieved with Valencia the following season and which he already achieved with Villarreal in 2016 -17 , where he repeated fourth place.
The five other teams The ones he directed were Recreativo de Huelva, Racing de Santander – on two occasions – Zaragoza and Sevilla, in these last two clubs he was dismissed before the end of his first season, and Athletic where he prepared the last part of 2020 season – 2021 and the 2021-2022 campaign.
With 400 directed meetings, it covers 22nd place in the classification of technicians with the most games in the history of the League and only eight away from Díaz Novoa or ten from Unai Emery, in a list headed by Luis Aragones who accumulated 756 matches.
Source: La Verdad
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