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Sep 16, 1953 Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile 70 years old
Chilean association football player and manager
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Manuel Pellegrini - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Manuel Pellegrini
- Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti (Spanish pronunciation: [ma'nwel pele'??ini]; Italian: [pelle'gri?ni]; born 16 September 1953) is a Chilean professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club West Ham United.
- As a coach, he has managed teams in Spain, England, Argentina, Chile, China and Ecuador.
- A qualified civil engineer and former footballer, after retiring as a player, he moved into coaching in his native Chile and subsequently Argentina.
- Pellegrini has won national leagues in four countries. Pellegrini moved to Europe in 2004 to take the manager's post at Villarreal, a club near Valencia.
- Under Pellegrini, Villarreal achieved a third-place finish in La Liga in 2004–05, a Champions League semi-final in 2005–06 and broke the big two in 2008 by securing a second-place finish in La Liga in 2007–08. Pellegrini's consistent record at Villarreal attracted the attention of Real Madrid and he was appointed manager there in 2009.
- He amassed a total of 96 points, a club record until it was surpassed by José Mourinho in the 2011–12 season, but lost the title to Barcelona by three points.
- He was dismissed after one season and later lamented the Galácticos policy employed at Real which prevented him from building a balanced team. Pellegrini took up the manager's role at Málaga in November 2010.
- He led Málaga to a fourth-place finish in his first full season and to qualification for the UEFA Champions League.
- He made it to the quarter-finals of the 2012–13 Champions League, becoming the only coach to take two teams to the Champions League quarter-finals in their debut seasons in the competition.
- On 22 May 2013, Pellegrini confirmed he would leave Málaga at the end of the 2012–13 La Liga season.
- On 14 June 2013, he was appointed manager of Manchester City, and won the Football League Cup and Premier League in his first season as manager, in the process becoming the first manager from outside Europe to manage a team to the English Premier League title.
- The title winning season was also noted for goal scoring prowess with Manchester City scoring 151 goals in all competitions – an English football record.
- Pellegrini also managed to take Manchester City to their first ever semi-final in Champions League in 2015–16, which was his last season after finishing in fourth-place with 66 points.
