Mendilibar, Sevilla and the ball

J.Osé Luis Mendilibar Etxebarria He will go down in history as the first coach with the ability to lead Olympiacos until achieving the European title. His story is one that reconciles with football the fan who, loving this sport, sometimes feels far from it when seeing that it has become something very different from what occupied him. This is the achievement of a normal person. “Long live the mother who gave birth to all Greeks!” Football is so good that he was rewarded with this victory!

‘Mendi’ added this Conference to his record a year after winning the Europa League with Seville. Within Sánchez Pizjuán They were not fair to him. After the aforementioned success, they were on the verge of doing without him for the season that just ended, and even though he was the coach in charge of being on the Sevilla bench at the beginning of the season, they killed him without consideration. with the reason that The beginning was not very buoyant in terms of results.

The little ball, which is fickle, observes everything that happened. And somehow he got justice, in a way. SA Mendilibar They sent him to Sevilla with 8 points in 8 games and two draws Champions League. And after his departure the usual The league Not only is it very similar to his star performance (41 points in 38 games) but in the top continental competition the Seville They lost and went without a consolation prize in the Europa League after losing the four games they had left to play in the group stage. The problem is not ‘Mendi’, but those who cut off his head to save themselves without the desire to engage in self-criticism. And the small ball (and the Zaldibar coach’s own good work) managed to deliver another title Mendilibar while Sevilla is moving away from the consistency it showed years ago and where it came close again with its help.