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Ernesto Valverde Tejedor (born 9 February 1964) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of La Liga club Athletic Bilbao . Over ten seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 264 games and 68 goals, adding 55 matches and nine goals in the Segunda División .
Athletic Bilbao is a professional association football club based in Bilbao, Spain, which plays in La Liga.This chronological list comprises all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Athletic Bilbao from 1910, when the first professional manager was appointed, to the present day.
Ernesto Valverde: Barcelona: 2017–18, 2018–19 Zinedine Zidane: Real Madrid: 2016–17, 2019–20 Diego Simeone: Atlético Madrid: 2013–14, 2020–21 Carlo Ancelotti: Real Madrid: 2021–22, 2023–24
In 1911, former team captain Alejandro de la Sota, was elected as the 7th president of the club, and he was the driving force behind the construction of the San Mamés Stadium (architect Manuel María Smith), which opened in 1913 and soon became one of the symbols of Athletic's dominance in the 1910s, winning the Copa del Rey three times in a ...
Athletic Bilbao is a Spanish football club from Bilbao, Biscay in the Basque Country.. In addition to winning several national league titles and domestic cups since their formation around the start of the 20th century, the club is perhaps best known for their policy of only signing players who have some link to their home territory, and for being one of only three clubs to have participated in ...
B team coach Ernesto Valverde, who also represented Athletic during his playing career, was promoted in his place. Valverde's first season in charge saw a successful La Liga campaign, as Bilbao finished in fifth place and qualified for the 2004–05 UEFA Cup.
2007–08 was Espanyol’s second season under the leadership of Ernesto Valverde, who had led them to the UEFA Cup final in his first season in charge. [2] Despite this success, they did not qualify for European competition in 2007–08, when they would compete domestically in La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
Levante was the first team from Segunda División to achieve promotion, after a one-year absence from La Liga, on 29 April 2017 after winning 1–0 against Oviedo. [28] Girona were promoted as the runners-up after drawing 0–0 against Zaragoza on 4 June 2017, this was its first promotion to the top division. [ 29 ]