MAURICIO PELLEGRINO IS OFFICIALLY BECOME NEW HEAD COACH OF VELEZ SARSFIELD.

Mauricio Pellegrino officially becomes Velez Sarsfield's new coach for next season. Mauricio pellegrino officially signed by Velez Sarsfield until 2021. Velez Sarsfield is a club that has raised his name as long as he is still a football player and Mauricio Pellegrino also has a nickname in Velez Sarsfield "Longaniza".

While at Velez Sarsfield Mauricio pellegrino has received 9 trophies: Clausura 93, Copa Libertadores 94, Copa Intercontinental 94, Super Cup 96, Apertura 95, Clausura 96, Interamericana 96, Recopa Sudamericana 97 (he was the author of the last penalty to trigger in the capture of the trophy), and Clausura 98.

He was part of the Youth Team who competed in the U20 World Cup in Portugal 1991, and won the senior albiceleste three times.

Transferred to Valencia In 1999, in the Valencian entity he played 214 matches with 6 scores and was proclaimed champion of the Spanish Super Cup (1999); awarded the UEFA Cup (2004) and the European Super Cup (2004); and was crowned champion of the Spanish League in 2002 and 2004. In 2004 he was loaned to Liverpool (12 pj, 3 goals) and boxed shorts in 2006 for Alavés (14 pj, 3 goals). An enviable file.

He started coaching in the lower valencia in 2006. In 2008 he began assisting Rafael Benitez as a field aide at Liverpool and then accompanied him, as his collaborator, to inter Italy, conqueror of the FIFA Club World Cup in 2010.