Joaquin Mendilibar Renews Contract with Sevilla

Mendilibar arrived in Andalusia last March with a short-term contract until the end of the season, succeeding Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, to help the team avoid relegation.

He succeeded in raising Sevilla to twelfth place in the League and led him to his seventh title in the European League, at the expense of Italian Roma, on penalties last week.

On his way to the final, he excluded both Manchester United of England and Juventus of Italy, and inflicted on Portuguese Jose Mourinho the first loss in a continental final in his coaching career.

Sevilla vice-president Jose Maria del Nido Carrasco told Radio Deportes Kobe Sevilla that Mendelbar had renewed his contract before the club’s website published the news on its website.