Manuel Pellegrini

Chilean association football player and manager

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Born 1953 · age 73

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Born 1953

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Updated 2026-06-09

The Chilean engineer who built Villarreal into Champions League semi-finalists, set a points record at Real Madrid that still wasn't enough, then became the first non-European manager to win the Premier League — all while refusing to chase Galácticos glamour over balance.

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Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti was born 16 September 1953 and moved to Europe in 2004 to manage Villarreal, where he delivered a Champions League semi-final in 2005–06 and a historic second-place La Liga finish in 2007–08. Real Madrid hired him for 2009–10; he amassed 96 points — a club record at the time — but lost the title to Barcelona by three and was dismissed after one season, later criticizing the Galácticos policy that blocked him from building the team he wanted. At Málaga from November 2010, he reached the Champions League quarter-finals in 2012–13, the only coach to take two diffe…

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