Argentino Almeyda, Tenth South American coach in Seville history

The Argentine Matías Almeyda, announced Monday as coach of Seville For the next three seasons, it was the tenth South American technician to occupy the Sevillist Bench in 135 years of club history, conquering six countrymen of his – his –Jorge SampaoliLast of them-, a Brazilian and two Uruguayans.

Matías Jesús Almeyda (Blue -Province of Buenos Aires-, December 21, 1973), formed as a player in River Plate -Club where he debuted as a coach in 2011-, arrived after a successful phase in Greece, where he conquered the Aek Athens League and Cup in 2023, and before the Mexican Guadalajara, with two cup titles, a Super Cup and the 2017 League.

Before, the ‘peeled’, also known for his style of playing with his football player as the ‘Tractorcito’ Until his backward in June 2011 on the river, he taught a year and a half to ‘millionaire’ in his trip for the second hell and promoted him in Primera, as he did in Banfield in 2014, after what happened to Chivas and then on the San Jose earthquake Americans between 2018 and 2022.

Almeyda has lived a first phase of the uprising, only one year old, in a SevilleThat came 22 years as River Star, but not fruitful.

Buenos Aires, 41 times international with albicelestewas unsuccessful and, after the team’s descent, moved to Italy, where, apart from its titles to Argentina -the 1996 Copa Libertadores -, it achieved its greatest success: two glasses, a super cup and a league with Lazio, and another glass with Parma.

His convulsive and short stay in Sevilla, for the institutional crisis that the entity lived, very similar to the current one, was in the 1996-1997 season, of sad memory because the team ended up going down to Second. It began on the bench José Antonio Camacho, which two years later would be a coach of Spain; And, after that short Carlos Salvador BaradoJulián Rubio ended it.

A very delicate situation in which Almeyda will also have to deal with, 51, without experience with Spain banks, though in Europe (2022-2025, in Greece), due to the economic, economic and institutional crisis emphasizing the neighborhoods NerviónThat in just three years they have left from playing the Champions League to fight without going down.

Therefore, his return to Seville He aroused the hope, but was also uncertain in sevillism, especially because of the environment of the tension and the serious situation of anonymity in which the club was sinking.

‘Pelado’ Almeyda is the new promise of Sevilla, specifically to the very discussion of this dome directive, through an Argentine coach and will continue the path marked by other South American technicians at the club and that the legendary began with the legendary Helenio Herrera.

Born in Buenos Aires, son of Malaga emigrants, ‘El Mago’ was in 1953, over time, has been a long tradition of South American coaches to the creature.

So, they followed the steps of ‘hh’ the Brazilian Pedro Otto Bumbel And, later and in two different stages each, the Uruguayan Victor Asparagus And also the Argentines Roque Olsen and Blind, Basay, In addition to Chilean nationalized Argentine Vicente Cantatore And, that in this century and in two periods (2016-2017 and from October 2022 to March 2023), Santa Fe Jorge Sampaoli.

The other has opened it Herrera (1953-1957), one of Sevilla’s historic technicians. For the four campaigns he left his seal, along with his unique personality and his revolutionary methods, and achieved a cup runner -up (1955) and another in the league (1957).

‘The Magician’, however, has a chaotic removal. He was declared in rebellion and suspended by FIFA, after a failed threat to be trained in Portugal, for his intent to sign for Barcelona, What he did later, but only after paying 5 million pesetas.

It followed seven years later OTTO BUBBEL .

In the seventy -seventy -seventy -seventy Roque Olsen.

At first, its main success was the first promotion in 1975, after three years in the second, and in the second, in 1989, to straighten a crooked campaign.

His successor is Cantatore .

The next South American coach left a deep mark on Sevilla for his way of being and living a football: the former Argentine selector Carlos Salvador Barado (1992-1993 and 1997), World Champion in Mexico 86 and runner-up in Italy 90.

He did not succeed despite having two unknown countrymen, a little known after Diego Pablo Simeone, was signed to Italian Pisa, and Argentine star Diego Armando Maradona, who, apart from his excessive controversy, raised passions between Sevillism.

He left the Andalusian painting seventh and out of the UEFA in 1993, though in the 1996-1997 League, after resigning Camacho, Bilado He was called an emergency. For almost a month and, when he saw that he could not change the bad dynamics, he threw the towel and returned to Argentina before the descent of a team that Almeyda came to his first European experience.

He followed him Samaoli. Then he returned to replace Julen Lopetegui (2022-2023), but was removed by bad results.

In the tag -day of 2017 Argentine arrived Eduardo ‘Toto’ Berizzo, Although he had no luck and was removed on December 22, after seventeen days and with the team in the fifth position of Laliga. The next South American coach, after the parenthesis of Sampaoli, is a full Fiasco: the Uruguayan Diego Alonso (2023).

Montevideo was replaced in October 2023 with José Luis Mendilibar and, in his first European experience, he did not win any of the eight league games or the Four Champions League where he appointed the team and removed on December 16 of that year, replaced by Quique Sánchez Flores. Now, the challenge of straightening the course of a sevilla less than Matías Almeyda.