Quique Sánchez Flores is the new coach of the Sevilla, replacing the Uruguayan Diego Alonso, dismissed last Saturday after losing 0-3 against Getafe, and has signed a contract with the Seville club for the remainder of this season and the next, until June 2025.
Quique, 58 years old, He will lead his first training session this Monday afternoon (6:30 p.m.) at the Sevilla Sports City.will be presented at nine at night at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán stadium and this Tuesday he will make his debut with his new team in the match against Granada at the Nuevo Los Cármenes, set for 9:30 p.m.
✍️ Quique Sánchez Flores, new coach of the #SevillaFC. #WeareSevilla #Never give up
— Sevilla Fútbol Club (@SevillaFC) December 18, 2023
Sevilla reported in a statement the agreement reached with the Madrid coach to take charge of the team, after firing the Uruguayan Diego Alonso last Saturday after not having won in twelve matches between LaLiga (5 tied and 3 lost) and the League. of Champions (4 defeats).
Enrique Sánchez Flores (Madrid, February 2, 1965), son of Jerez residents – the former Betis and Real Madrid footballer Isidro Sánchez and the artist Carmen Flores – and with roots in a city where he lived as a child and in his early years of youth, He was a member of Sevilla at that time and in an interview in 2011, when he was among the candidates to replace Gregorio Manzano on the Sevilla bench, he predicted that “Sevilla is a club that sooner or later” he would coach.
Quique Sanchez He began his career as a coach in 2004 in the Real Madrid youth team.a club in which he had previously been a player, before retiring at Real Zaragoza and a longer, initial stage at Valencia, with which he became a full international on up to 15 occasions, Sevilla indicated in its note.
His first experiences on the bench in the elite were in Getafe, Valencia and Benfica, with which he won his first title – the League Cup in 2009 -, a record that he expanded after his stay for two seasons at Atlético de Madrid ( In 2010, they won the first edition of the Europa League and also the European Super Cup), although that same year they lost the Copa del Rey final precisely against Sevilla.
Posteriorly, He coached Al-Ahli in the United Arab Emirates for two seasonsand then to Al-Ain, with the achievement of a League Cup and a President’s Cup of that country with the first of those clubs, and later that last title also with the second, until in In the 2014-15 season he returned to Getafe before signing for English club Watford..
Returning to Spain, he was at Espanyol for just over one season and in 2019-20 he left for Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua. His last two experiences are two returns, first to Watford to be their coach in 12 games in 2019-20 and, later, to Getafe, in which he coached 66 games between 2021-22 and 2022-23 until his dismissal. last April.
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