Current champions of the Europa League, Sevilla announced this Friday the departure of general sporting director Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, known as Monchi. Hired in April 2019 from Roma, this was his second spell at the Spanish club.
According to a statement published by the team, the executive will make a public farewell in the coming days, in the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán anteroom.
Monchi was responsible for putting together the squad that would become Europa League champions for the sixth time in the team’s history – the penultimate European achievement – in the 2019/20 season. In addition, led by Julen Lopetegui, the group managed to return to play in the Champions League that year, through a campaign in which it set Sevilla’s historical record for points in LaLiga.
i ️ Monchi disassociates himself from #SevillaFC.
¡Gracias, @leonsfdo!#WeareSevilla
— Sevilla Football Club (@SevillaFC) June 16, 2023
The director says goodbye to the Spanish club with another title of the second main tournament in Europe, won on May 31, after beating José Mourinho’s Roma by 4-1 on penalties in the decision. With that, Nervión maintained 100% success in the finals of the competition and isolated itself even more as the biggest champion of the Europa League, with seven conquests.
In this way, the team secured itself as the top seed in the 2023/24 edition of the Champions League – the fourth consecutive participation in the European championship. In all, there will be 11 seasons playing in the tournament.
After spending time at the club as a goalkeeper, which ended in 1998/99, Monchi had his first opportunity as a director in April 2000, when his main objective was access to the national first division. In 204/05, Sevilla managed to qualify for the first continental competition in the 21st century and, in the following year, won the first title as head of sports management – the team’s first Europa League.
Finally, in the eleven seasons that followed until his departure to Roma in 2017, he would lift four more Europa League trophies (2006/07, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16), two King’s Cups ( 2006/07 and 2009/10), a Spanish Super Cup (2007) and a European Super Cup (2006).
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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