The Blaugrana coach was kicked out. The defeat in the league against Rayo Vallecano and the negative results of this season both in La Liga and in the Champions League were decisive
The coach of Barcelona Ronald Koeman been exonerated. This was announced by the Catalan club with a statement. FC Barcelona have relieved Ronald Koeman from his post as first team manager. The club president, Joan Laporta, informed him of the decision after the defeat against the Vallecano Ray 1-0, the second knockout in a row in the league. Ronald Koeman I will greet the team on Thursday at the Ciutat Esportiva. FC Barcelona would like to thank him for his service to the club and wish him all the best for his professional career reads the note on the Barcelona website.
In his place to replace him is given as a favorite Xavi Hernandez, Blaugrana flag and currently technical dell’Al-Saad in Qatar. the midfielder who won everything with Guardiola’s Barcelona and the Spanish national team. In recent weeks the name of Andrea Pirlo has also circulated. But other hypotheses have also sprung up: Sergi Barjuan, another ex who today coaches Barcelona B, the second team. And Marcelo Gallardo, Argentine at the helm of the River Plate.
The negative results of this start of the season weigh on Koeman’s dismissal, but his position had already been in the balance for some time: the Blaugrana currently occupy the ninth place in the La Liga standings, they lost the Clasico at the Nou Camp with the rivals of Real Madrid 2 to 1 and are also at risk of elimination in the Champions League where they have only obtained three points in three days, winning only against Dynamo Kiev.
Fifty-eight years old, Koeman wore the Barcelona shirt as a player from 1989 to 1995. As a player he collected two European Cups in the Dutch league (4), in the Spanish one (4, all with the blaugrana) (his decisive goal in the 1992 final against Sampdoria) as well as a European title with the Dutch national team (1988). He had landed on the Barcelona bench as a manager in 2020 after leaving his position as coach of the orange. Between the serious financial problems of the club and the stormy farewell of Leo Messi, he found himself in a very difficult situation without any reference points. President Bartomeu, who had taken him to shake up the environment after Setien’s expulsion, has also left.
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