Quique Setien sacked, the announcement was expected. “Ronald Koeman will be the coach” of FC Barcelona, President Josep Maria Bartomeu announced on Tuesday evening during an interview on BarçaTV, the Catalan club's television channel.
"If all goes well, Koeman will be the coach that we announce and who will lead this team and these players with a different project," Bartomeu said, the day after the dismissal of Quique Setién, in office since January.
"We bet on him, because we know him well, we know how he sees things, how he wants his teams to play, but also for his experience, because he was in (Johan) Cruyff's" Dream Team " because he knows Barça and his way of seeing football, ”continued the Blaugrana president.
"A personal decision" by Abidal
Aged 57, Koeman has been coach of the Netherlands since 2018. He wore the Barça jersey from 1989 to 1995 and won four Spanish league titles as well as the 1992 Champions League, the first title in C1 of Catalan club.
Regarding Eric Abidal, whose sports director's contract was terminated on Tuesday, Bartomeu certified that "it was he who communicated to us that he wanted to leave his post, it is a personal decision".
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