Ronald Koeman is the elected to relieve to Quique Setién in the bench of the FC Barcelona. The Dutch trainer arrived this Tuesday to the city condal to sign by the Catalan team, of the that will have to do charge after one of the hardest reverses in all the history of the club. It is not easy mission for the already ex seleccionador of the Low Countries, but is a dream fulfilled for him try it.
In fact, the Dutch always has been one of the technicians that Josep Maria Bartomeu has had in mind since the things with Ernesto Valverde began to not working well. Maybe the ideal moment to bring to Ronald Koeman had been summer of 2019, when all cracked as a result of the (another) humiliation in Champions League against the Liverpool, this night that the culés carried four and that all thought that the cycle of the Txingurri had finished.
But no. In this occasion, Josep Maria Bartomeu ratified to the trainer extremeño, although yes it decided to cease him in January, when it was deleted of the Supercopa of Spain against the Athletic of Madrid. In this moment, tantearon two options: Xavi Hernández and the own Ronald Koeman. The problem was that neither the Catalan neither the Dutch wanted to take the reins of a project to half of season and with all the ingredients to drift.
Finally, Quique Setién was the elected in this moment, but the Cantabrian neither had good 'feeling' with the changing room neither much less attained to win some important title: the FC first Barcelona was deleted of the Glass of Rey, afterwards delivered LaLiga Santander to the Real Madrid and, finally, fell in Champions League in the hecatombe of Lisbon against the Bayern Munich. This last defeat was the one who precipitated the decision of a radical change in the club.
And this first change was the goodbye of the own Quique Setién to leave him step to Ronald Koeman, a trainer that, on the paper, has all the requirements to face up to a moment so complicated like the current. The Dutch no only is a technician with experience, but it also shares the philosophy of game of the club, is a Barcelona legend by his stage of player, knows the house and has sufficient character as to assume the restructuring of the staff.
The hero of Wembley
Ronald Koeman was, in addition to the boss of the defence of the Dream Team, the man that marked the goal that carried to the FC Barcelona to his first Glass of Europe in 1992. All barcelonista knows what the Dutch means for the club, as well as also they know it the players. Like this then , the ex seleccionador of the 'orange' embodies the figure of this technician that will be respected by the changing room by all what has won until today.