The career of Quique Setién until his arrival to Barça

After several days of maximum intensity, the FC Barcelona announced the goodbye of Ernesto Valverde and the arrival of Quique Setién, that will be his new technician until 2022. The preparador born in Santander will live his official presentation the Tuesday 14 January in the Camp Nou, and after her will make his first taking of contact with his new pupilos before launching to by the challenges that presents him the demanding adventure in the City Condal.

The recently arrived is not a stranger for the fans culé, and began his sportive path in Spain like player. In 1977, the then midfield player debuted with the first team of the Racing of Santander, in which it accumulated 12 seasons in two stages. Later it gave the jump to an Athletic of Madrid where was three years and where conquered the only title that appears in his file, the Supercopa of Spain. After four campaigns in the Logronés returned to The Sardinero, before a brief go through the Raise and of his definite decision to hang the boots.

His career in the benches initiate also in the group racinguista, in which it landed in 2001 like sportive director. The dismissal of Gustavo Benítez in the Day 7 did him form a pair beside Nando Yosu, and between both led to the team to First Division. The today Barcelona trainer followed a year more in the dispatches and afterwards confronted to two bets fallidas, in the Polideportivo Ejido (2003) and in the selection of Equatorial Guinea (2006), in which hardly it contested a party.

The luck also was him elusive in the Logroñés (2007-08), just before a brilliant stay in the Lugo (2009-15). To the Stadium Anxo Car arrived in 2009 and was doing grow the project, that attained a longed for promotion to Second To in the season 2011-12. In spite of living some altibajos, the Galician square consolidated in the category of silver, and only sacked of the míster after a change in his Board of directors.

Setién Returned to LaLiga with the UD The Palms (2015-17), in which it fulfilled the aim of esquivar the permanence. In October of 2015 took the witness of the sacked Paco Herrera and achieved reflotar to a group to the that recovered to base of offensive football, and a campaign afterwards, in spite of some that another fright, repeated the played before his goodbye to the Stadium of Big Canarian. His exit of the islands coincided with the most ambitious offer to date.

In the Real Betis (2017-19) went back to enjoy of a hopeful start, although it lost bellows at the end. In Benito Villamarín started again with successes, codeándose with the most powerful clubs of First and reaching a wished classification for the Europe League. In his second year in the bench could not keep the joy of the heliopolitanos, since it fell in the dieciseisavos of final of the tournament and in the semifinals of the Glass of Rey, whose final contested in the stadium verdiblanco. With one accord, club and technician opted for terminating the year of remaining agreement.

Setién Has numerous challenges in the Barça

Setién, firm admirer of the style of Johan Cruyff and Pep Guardiola, has numerous challenges in the Barça, to the that arrives like solution of emergency and still with three titles to shot. The Cantabrian collects to a worn but able team to compete with the big of Europe, and with the aim to recover the spark of the staff and litigate by LaLiga, the Champions and the Glass of Rey, in which it will not take in premièring .