Pepe Mel Biography

His full name is Jose Pepe Mel Perez, was born in Madrid in February 28, 1963. He is former football player and current football coach of Real Betis.

Pepe Mel playing career:

Mel started his playing career when he was 11 years old at Real Madrid C, joining youth team of Real Madrid in 1974.Mel played alongside the likes of Michel and Emilio Butragueno so he never played in the first division.

In 1987 he moved to CD Castekllon in the Sekunda Division, after brief spell with CA Osasuna, playing two years and helping the Valencian Community to return to La Liga after their absence for seven years.

In 1989 he joined Real Betis and helped them to promote and win personally the Pichichi Trophy with 22 goals. The next year Mel played first and only season in top level scoring 14 goals but the team relegated again immediately.

Mel played the rest of his playing career in the third division, playing in his country Spain then France, where he played with Granada CF, Benidorm CF, and Getafe CF, then Angers SCO, and Ecija Balompie.

Mel retired at the age of 35 years old where he played 195 games and scoring 73 goals.

Managerial career of Pepe Mel:

Mel started his coaching career, after one year of his retiring of playing, in his fist team CD Coslada.

After one year at Real Murcia in 2001 Mel Replaced Valencia CF- Bound Rafael Benetiz with CD Tenerife, where Mel has his first spell as coach in the top flight but suffering relegation . Mel after four seasons was sacked by Polideportivo Ejido in 2005-06 to move then to Rayo Vallecano leading them in his second season to return to the second season in the fifth place.

Mel was sacked in February 15, 2010 after poor results by Rayo to sign with his former team Real Betis leading them to return to the top division in his first year.

Mourinho defies Lukaku to reveal the reason for his departure from Chelsea

Coach Jose Mourinho Chelsea ensured his adherence with the offensive trio Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto'o and Senegal's Demba Ba during the winter transfer period, denying the existence of an intention to restore the glittering Belgian Romelu Lukaku with Everton.

Although Eto'o exposure to muscle injury will keep him from playing for two weeks, but Mourinho stressed that Lukaku, the owner of seven goals in the Premier League this season, will not return for the Blues after leaving last summer.

The Gunners suffered from weak scoring figures for the heads spearhead in the domestic league, where Eto'o scored two goals, and Torres one goal, while Demba Ba did not score so far after 12 rounds. 

At a news conference today "Mo" challenged Lukaku to disclose the real reason for his departure from Chelsea, with the beginning of the season, saying, "Lukaku young man likes to speak, but it's the only one who did not talk about what is the reason for his departure from Chelsea, the last time I met him I asked him to disclose the reason ".

The press linked between the Lukaku departure from Chelsea and the wasting of the weighting decisive kick in the European Super Cup against Bayern Munich, which is coached by Pep Guardiola, Grimm Mourinho, causing the Bavarians win the title earlier this season.

The Belgian coach criticized in a press statement in which he said "Mourinho regret at my departure."

On the other hand, Mourinho said that he does not plan to contract with his compatriot Fabio Coentrao during the winter transfer window in January.

Mourinho said in comments highlighted by the newspaper "AS" Spanish: "I did not ask for the contract with the Portuguese players, I've dealt with a lot of them during my career, and now is enough for me Seen goalkeeper Hilario within the ranks of Chelsea."

The newspaper "Daily Mail" English pointed to Mourinho's desire to annex Coentrao, and pointed out that in the case of the arrival of the two clubs Chelsea and Real to the agreement, the player will join the ranks of the "blues" at the end of the current season.

Ancelotti: Real talks nothing including Mourinho

Detection coach Real Madrid, the Italian Carlo Ancelotti revealed that the entire club is not talking about the era of his predecessor, Jose Mourinho, with the monarchy and especially last season.

Ancelotti said in an interview published in the English newspaper (The Times) today "it is not in the club talking about anything to do with what happened last season with Mourinho and I also do not ask."

The coach said "access to the semi-finals of the Champions League is not a bad thing, but it's not good enough for some clubs," in reference to the Real qualified three times for this phase with Mourinho.

The artistic director, "My idea depends on winning with the provision of great football, fans in Spain do not look just for the result but how you play, the Real should win in good style, victories alone are not enough, for example Fabio Capello was sacked after the coronation in La Liga."

And Ancelotti said “Real  crowning with the Champions League for the tenth time does not represent an obsession for me, but large motivation, it is very important for the club, another Champions League final was waged by Real Madrid in 2002, the club the size of the riyal this is not a good thing."

about Asking him the level of the Premier currently Ancelotti  expressed admiration for Manchester City, where he said " large poise among all the teams, but I think that Manchester City's best, Arsenal does things well, even though we helped it a lot, Arsene Wenger should  call us for lunch after selling German Ozil to him. " 

On the issue of abandoned Ozil in favor of the Gunners' pre-season in a deal estimated to be worth 45 million euros, he said "It was my decision, when it contracted with (Gareth) Bale was hard to find a place to Ozil, and he needs to play, so the deal was" ..

Ajax coach De Boer: Barcelona a terrifying team even without Messi

Frank de Boer Ajax Amsterdam coach said that the absence of Lionel Messi the best player in the world will not affect the level of Barcelona and called for his players to focus on the style of their play when the two teams meet in the Champions League on Tuesday.

De Boer told reporters on Monday, "Even without Messi, the Barcelona team is very strong."

And the Netherlands champion Ajax needs beat the Spaniard in order to retain his hopes of qualifying for the knockout round for the eighth group.

And Ajax collects four points and sets in third place behind leader Barcelona with ten points and the second AC Milan has five points.

De Boer said, "The most important thing is to impose our style of play  ... if two teams presented well, Barca has better players, but not necessarily the best team win."

He added: "We will try to control over Barcelona but we know that the task will not be easy."

De Boer mentioned that Barcelona plays more direct manner under new coach Argentine Gerardo Martino than was the case under the leadership of Pep Guardiola.

He said "The players want to get the ball faster and may impact upon the Argentine school but our plans will remain unchanged  ... We are now in a better position than we were earlier."

Ajax finished second in the Eredivisie and lost 4 - zero against Barcelona last September.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) chose the referee Pavel Kralovic to manage Barcelona vs Ajax Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and England, Martin Atkinson to match Zenit St Petersburg and Atletico Madrid in Russia on Tuesday in the framework of the fifth round of the role of the groups in the Champions League.

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor Biography

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor is a former Spanish footballer who played as a striker, and current coach of Valencia. He was born in February 9, 1964.

Playing career of Ernesto Valverde:

He began his professional career in second Division teams Deportivo Alaves and Sestao and during the summer transfer window of 1986 he moved to RCD Espanyol. His debut in La Liga is on August 31 for a 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid. In 1988, under the leadership of Javier Clemente the team reached the final of the UEFA Cup against Bayer Leverkusen. In the first match Espanyol reached 3-0 but lost the second leg with the same result after a penalty shootout.

Next season he moved to the ranks of Barcelona under the leading of Johan Cruyff. Although he won a EUFA Winners’ Cup and 1988-89 Copa Del Rey 1990 Valverde failed to beat the competition of the other strikers in the team Julio Salinas and Gary Lineker.  In 1990 signed with Athletic Bilbao whom plays in for six seasons. Ending his career of 33 years with the team competing then in Segunda team of Mallorca, it is a major contributor to the return of the club in La Liga in 1997.

Coaching career of Ernesto Valverde:

After his active Playing career, Valverde starts coaching career in youth formations Athletic Bilbao. Four years later, in 2001, he became assistant to Jupp Heynckes in the first team. In 2002, he took over the “B" team of the club, and in 2003 is now head coach of the first team. During the 2003-04 season ended in fifth place in La Liga and qualified for the UEFA Cup.

In 2006, Valverde took the training of his former club - Espanyol. He led them to play the final of the UEFA Cup, but it lost again after a penalty shootout, this time from Seville. On May 28, 2008 Valverde was appointed coach of the Greek Olympiacos, replacing the post of his compatriot Jose Segura. In the first season he won the championship and the Cup of Greece. However, on May 8, 2009 the club decided not to renew the contract of skill and Valverde was released. On June 2, 2009 Villarreal offered him a one-year contract to succeed Real Madrid Chilean Manuel Pellegrini. He was discharged on 31 January 2010 after the home defeat by Osasuna. On August 7, 2010 Valverde took advantage over for the second time Olympiakos. On April 19, 2012, after again duplicate the success of his previous stay in the club, Valverde announced his decision to leave for family reasons. On December 3, 2012 he was appointed to be the head coach of Valencia.