It was an open secret, but it’s now official. Marcelino García Toral returns to Villarreal with the mission of refloating the Yellow Submarine. The Castellón entity announced this Monday the appointment of the Asturian coach, who signs until 2026 and will take over from Pacheta, dismissed last Friday due to the poor streak of results.
Marcelino García Toral returns to Villarreal seven years after closing his first journey in the blue team, on whose bench he spent three and a half seasons and left a great memory by achieving the Yellow Submarine’s third promotion to the First Division in the 2012-13 campaign and qualify it for the Europa League during the following two years. In the 2015-16 season he reached the semi-finals in the second continental competition, being knocked out by Liverpool.
After later passing through the benches of Valencia (2017-20) and Athletic (2020-22), Marcelino reached an agreement to become the new coach of Olympique de Marseille for the current season, but he was fired after only seven games officers and since then he was without equipment.
Villarreal began talks with Marcelino as soon as they dismissed Pacheta and last weekend the details of the contract that allow the return of the Villaviciosa coach to the club chaired by Fernando Roig were being outlined.
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The La Plana entity has announced the return of Marcelino through a video broadcast on its social networks in which he remembers the bad moment that Villarreal was going through when his first landing on the groguet bench occurred and reviews the momentum that gave him gave to the club. “Let’s get excited together again,” reads the message that accompanies the recording.
A wish that responds to Villarreal’s confidence in Marcelino’s good work and the pressing need of the Yellow Submarine, which has already devoured two technicians so far this year and occupies fourteenth position in the League, very far from the goal. of being in Europe that the club set at the beginning of the season.
Quique Setién, distanced from the heavyweights of the locker room, fell when only four days of the championship had been played and his replacement, Pacheta, was also unable to straighten the course of a team that boasts poor defensive records that have been hampering it since the start of the season. season. The pitiful image that the Yellow Submarine offered last Thursday against Maccabi Haifa in the Europa League led to Pacheta’s sentence and the appointment as interim coach of the sports director, Miguel Ángel Tena, who took the reins while the entity negotiated with Marcelino and did not managed to change the dynamic on Sunday against Atlético at the Metropolitano (3-1).
Marcelino now takes on the challenge of raising a squad designed to fight to enter Europe and will continue to stretch his records with the Yellow Submarine, which he coached in 177 games during his previous stage, 87 of which ended in victory. His connection with Dani Parejo, of whom he brought out the best version of him when they both met at Valencia, can be decisive in improving the face of a Villarreal that hopes to finally emerge afloat.
2023-11-13 17:51:52
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