Every summer, not only the transfer of players attracts the attention of fans around the world, but the departure or retention of the head coach will also cause waves. On June 30, Beijing time, Athletic Club Bilbao officially announced that Valverde had been appointed as the club's head coach.
Valverde's return was expected by many fans. In the previous club presidential election, Uriarte successfully ran with a support rate of 46.71%, and he promised to appoint Valverde as the club's president before the election. Head coach. At this moment, he fulfilled his promise.
This time it has been five years since he last left Bilbao. This will be his third time coaching Bilbao. When he coached Bilbao for the first time, he first served as an assistant coach, then as the head coach of the B team, and then became the head coach. Later, he moved to several La Liga teams and also coached Olympiacos of Greece . Since he was coaching in La Liga when Real Madrid Barcelona dominated La Liga, he has never been able to taste the championship in Spain.
In June 2013, Valverde took up the coaching staff of Bilbao for the second time. At this time, Valverde is more experienced than the first time and his abilities are becoming more and more mature. Finally in 2015, he won his first championship trophy in Spain, when his Bilbao swept Barcelona with "MSN" 5:1 in the Spanish Super Cup . It is worth mentioning that Barcelona, which had the trident of Messi, Neymar and Suarez, was invincible on all fronts and won five crowns in one fell swoop. The only championship that Barcelona lacked that year was the Spanish Super Cup. It can be said that Valverde shattered Barcelona's dream of winning six crowns.
Valverde's outstanding coaching ability finally attracted the attention of wealthy clubs. In May 2017, Barcelona Club announced that Valverde would coach the team. After Valverde came to Barcelona, he quickly showed his talent. In those years, Real Madrid made an immediate impact in the Champions League arena, achieving an unprecedented achievement of winning three consecutive Champions League titles in one fell swoop. However, two seasons after Valverde came to Barcelona, the La Liga championship was won by Barcelona. In the domestic competition, Valverde's Barcelona is even better.
What made Valverde hate was the Champions League in his first year. In the Champions League quarter-finals against Roma, Barcelona defeated their opponent 4:1 in the first round, but was reversed by their opponent 3:0 in the second round. The same plot happened the next year, when Barcelona encountered and Liverpool in the semi-finals. The team also beat its opponent 3:0 in the first round, but was reversed 4:0 by its opponent in the second round. Liverpool, who finally made it to the final, won the Champions League, and Lhasa could only watch helplessly as their opponents completed the great cause of revival. After two consecutive years of being reversed in the Champions League, calls for Valverde to be sacked are getting louder.
In his third season, although the team still maintained the top spot in La Liga, the team was eliminated from the Spanish Super Cup, which became the last straw for Valverde. The team finally made up its mind to let Valverde get out of class is over. After Valverde left, Barcelona lost the league championship and was bloodbathed by Bayern 8:2 in the Champions League, falling into a trough for a long time. Since then, Valverde has been idle at home.
Do you think Bilbao can achieve glory after Valverde returns?
author-Liu Hongtao
