Manuel Pellegrini

Manager · Betis

Soccer

Nationality

Chile

Born

1953-09-16

Height

1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

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Position

Manager

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Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti (born 16 September 1953) is a Chilean professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Real Betis. As a coach, he has managed teams in Spain, England, Argentina, Chile, China and Ecuador. 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 …