Barcelona, ​​now, can already say that they have the coach who will lead the transition. The Barça club has made the hiring of Ronald Koeman official this Wednesday morning. The former defensive foreman of Johan Cruyff's Dream Team, an iconic figure of the fans after scoring the goal of the first Barça European Cup at Wembley, has been entrusted with the task of cleaning up the dressing room after 8-2 in Lisbon . But he still has to convince the pantocrator, Leo Messi. The Argentine awaits events in silence while impatience grows in the club.

Nothing is free. Barcelona will have to assume the payment of 4.5 million euros to the Dutch Federation for the dismissal of the already former coach oranje . Figure that joins the severance pay paid to Setién and his work team, all of them fired on Monday, for the remaining two years of contract.

Koeman, 57, will be presented this afternoon at 6:00 p.m. at the Camp Nou. It will be in the media pulpit where you can begin to advance the main lines of a project that will orbit around the casualties. Barcelona, ​​through its publicized "extensive restructuring", hopes to release footballers such as Luis Suárez, Jordi Alba, Ivan Rakitic and Arturo Vidal this summer, with Sergio Busquets and Gerard Piqué also in serious danger . In his day Pep Guardiola, the day he assumed the position of coach of the first team, debuted announcing that he did not have three of the referents of the Rijkaard era: Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto'o. Although the Cameroonian, finally, managed to stay in the team.

Koeman's coaching career is long (21 years) and of uneven performance. In fact, he started out as part of the coaching staff of the Dutch national team at the 1998 World Cup, with Guus Hiddink at the helm, and later joined the Louis van Gaal group with Barcelona in the 1998-1999 campaign. He was commissioned after the Barça subsidiary. Ten have been the teams that Koeman has managed during these two decades (Vitesse, Ajax, Benfica, PSV, Valencia, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord, Southampton, Everton and the Netherlands team, which he qualified for the next European Championship after a deep reinvention and offering chevrons to young people like Frenkie de Jong or De Ligt).

In his record, he has three titles from the Dutch Eredivisie (two with Ajax and one with PSV), to which are added a Netherlands Cup with the ajacied club and another from Spain during his tumultuous stage with Valencia, where he rejected emblems such as Cañizares, Albelda and Angulo. Five days after lifting the trophy, he was fired.

Despite being a capital part of Cruyff's Dream Team, his tactical postulates have not always been adjusted to the creed of the Dutch genius. "I am a coach who always think more about having the ball than defending. But defending is part of football and it should be done. I am more realistic than many Dutch. In my career at Ajax or PSV we achieved good results against more teams. strong, although we did not always maintain our ways, "he declared in an interview with Marca .

Koeman's second coach at Barcelona will be Alfred Schreuder, who was Erik ten Hag's assistant at Ajax who reached the Champions League semi-final in the 2018-2019 season and also to Julian Nagelsmann at Hoffenheim, a team he coached himself. last season. He also hopes to have another former Barcelona hero, the Swedish Henrik Larsson, who would be in charge of preparing the forwards.

Koeman already works. Messi watches and keeps quiet.

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