Cádiz announced this Wednesday the signing of Argentine coach Mauricio Pellegrino as the new manager of the first team, which is in a relegation position to the Second Division and has not won a game for more than four months.
Pellegrino, 52, joins the Cádiz team after having coached the Universidad de Chile, He has signed until the end of the season and is currently presented in the press room of the Nuevo Mirandilla stadium.
✍️ Agreement with Mauricio Pellegrino
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Welcome, Pellegrino! pic.twitter.com/9emeSdob5w
— Cádiz Football Club (@Cadiz_CF) January 24, 2024
The Argentinian replaces Sergio Gonzalez, dismissed last Saturday after a negative streak of nineteen consecutive games without winning, two in the Copa del Rey and seventeen in the League, the last three resulting in defeats.
Pellegrino coached Valencia in the Spanish League in 2012, a team in which he previously played as a central defender, and later coached Alavés and Leganés in Spain.
With the Vitorians he reached the final of the Copa del Rey in the 2016-17 season, which they lost to Barcelona (3-1), a club in which he also played during his time as a footballer. At Leganés, he achieved permanence in the First Division in the 2018-19 campaign and in the next he was dismissed.
Abroad, Pellegrino has coached Estudiantes, Independiente and Vélez Sarsfield from his country, as well as English club Southampton and Chilean Universidad. Cádiz is eighteenth in the qualifying table with 15 points, located one away from salvation with seventeen games left to play.
2024-01-24 13:23:55
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