Manuel Pellegrini He has already placed his focus on the next season. The challenge of trying to repeat the historic campaign achieved with Betis keeps him awake at night so, before starting rehearsals scheduled for the first days of July, he tries to have everything defined. His methodology and experience are reliable to reach the competition in the best way.
Precisely, those mentioned virtues are the ones that seduced the Sevillian directive to trust in the hands of the Engineer the sports project two years ago. The evidence shows that they were not wrong since the club returned to the forefront and won its first title since 2005. However, their bet was not so risky considering the proven track record of Manuel Pellegrini in the elite. An example of this is a recent study that places him ninth among the strategists who won the most games in the 21st century.
The statistics site transfermarkt gave that detail on its website and it was nothing more than a source of pride to see the Chilean in such a high position. Surrounded by the most exalted colleagues of recent times in the world, He was able to take his place registering so far 337 victories, very close to Unai Emery (413) and quite far from Diego Simeone who follows him with 343. All this taking into account the 776 games directed on his tour of Europe.
It is worth noting that the analysis was carried out in relation to the passage of the protagonists only in the Old Continent. In this way, in the case of the native of Santiago Their cycles in Universidad de Chile, Liga de Quito, River, San Lorenzo and Chinese soccer were not computed. The sum began once he took over at Villareal and then went through Real Madrid, Malaga, Manchester City, West Ham and his current institution.
between legends
The hierarchy and the recognition it achieved Manuel Pellegrini On the soccer level it is more than clear, being part of an elite group like the one that makes up the aforementioned ranking only confirms it. In addition to the two already mentioned, the top for the maximum number of victories goes to Carlo Ancelotti.
The Italian, together with the Frenchman Arsene Wenger, are the only ones who have managed more than 1,000 games (611 wins for the former, 387 for the latter). The podium is completed by Pep Guardiola who is followed by glories like Alex Ferguson, Jurgen Klopp, Rafael Benítez and José Mourinho.
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