Jorge Sampaoli is the one targeted by the leadership of Seville to return to the technical direction of the first team after the dismissal of the Spanish Julen Lopetegui after the 4-1 defeat suffered by his team at home against the German Borussia Dortmund, for the third date of the group stage in which he only accumulates a point.
“Julen Lopetegui is no longer the manager of Sevilla FC. THANK YOU JULEN”reads the brief text that the Sevillian club published through its official Twitter account at the end of the game with the Germans and that accompanies a photo of the Basque coach with a trophy in his hands.
Lopetegui qualified Sevilla for the Champions League during the three complete seasons in which he directed it, 2019-20, 20-21 and 21-22, because in all of them he finished fourth in La Liga, and in the first of them, the most outstanding , won the Europa League title against Inter, from Italy, precisely that Cup is the one shown in the aforementioned photograph.
Sampaoli62, who has successfully managed Olympique Marseille as an escort for Paris Saint Germain in the French league, asked as the main conditions for his return the assembly of his coaching staff and setting consistent goals Depending on the squad it has, among its players are several Argentines such as Alejandro Gómez, Marcos Acuña, Gonzalo Montiel and Erik Lamela.
The man from Casildense already managed Sevilla with good success also in the 2016-2017 seasonwhen it ranked fourth, qualifying for the Champions League, with 21 wins, 9 draws and 8 losses.
In that step Sampaoli, born in the Santa Fe town of Casilda on March 13, 1960, terminated the contract to take over the technical direction of the Argentine National Teamthe only place in his professional career in which he was not successful, since before and after his work at the University of Chile and the national team of that country (he achieved the first Copa América in its history), Santos and Atlético Minairo, from Brazil.
In addition to the last place in Group G of the Champions League at the end of the first round with only one point, Sampaoli will also have to overcome the very poor pace of the Sevillians in LaLiga, where after seven days he only added five points and ranks 16th. place.
As for the future of Lopetegui, the same Spanish media announced the possibility that he would immediately join the Premier League, since there would be a specific offer from Wolverhampton.
