2023-06-20 18:19:12
The man from Madrid Victor Orta has been announced this Tuesday as the new sports director of the Sevilla FCwhere he already served as technical secretary between 2006 and 2013, for the next three seasons, according to a statement issued by the club.
“Sevilla FC has signed an agreement with Víctor Orta so that he becomes the person in charge of Sevilla’s sports management for the next three seasons,” the Seville entity reported about its new sports director, who will be presented this Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium.
????????????️ Víctor Orta, new sports director of the #SevillaFC for the next three seasons.
Welcome Victor! ⚪️????#WeareSevilla #Never give up
— Sevilla Football Club (@SevillaFC) June 20, 2023
Víctor Orta began his career as a sports director in 2005, when he was offered by Real Valladolid. A year later, led by ‘Monchi’, whom he now replaces after his departure to English Aston Villa, he joined Sevilla as technical secretary. In that first stage at the Nervión club, he won two UEFA Cups, one European Super Cup, two Copas del Rey and one Spanish Super Cup with the first team.
Return to the Premier
In 2013, he left to direct the sports field of the Zenit Saint Petersburg Russian, with whom he achieved the runner-up position in the Russian league and reached the knockout stages of the Champions League. Only a year later he returned to Spain and became the sports director of Elche CF, participating in his stay in ‘First’, although the team ended up being relegated due to bureaucratic problems.
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With this, Orta signed for Middlesbrough FC in the Championship in 2016 and, commanding the club’s sports management, to be promoted to the Premier, where they enjoyed an ephemeral stay of just one season. But his work draws the attention of Leeds United, also from the English Second Division, a club with which he manages to return to the top flight of English football in the 2019-2020 season, with the Argentine coach. Marcelo Bielsa.
From there, a comfortable season on his return to the Premier with a ninth place and a much tighter finish to maintain the category in 2021-2022. While the Elland Road team could not avoid the decline in the course that has just ended, although the English team already dispensed with the services of Orta weeks before the end of the championship. Now, after five seasons in office, Orta returns to Spanish football seven years later.
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