Rafael Benítez
Mad a miracle with Liverpool buy winning the champions league. This football manager is known for his extremely high developed tactical skills.
Rafael Benitiez was born 1960, Madrid Spain. Rafael’s playing career wasn’t so successful as some of the other coaches but he made it too Real Madrid’s junior team as young.
He didn’t get so much farer but as a coach he is one of the best.
Rafael’s training carer started of pretty bad. He was first appointed manager for the Spanish team Real Valladolid 1995 but after a bad season he was fired. After this he became head manager in the second division but after ten games and one win he was kicked from that job to. Rafael kept in going and 1997 he took over as manager in another second division team CF Extremadura. This time it went better for the Spanish coach and the team played its self up to a second plays in the division. After loosing the play off to the first division Rafael decided to quit coaching for a while.
Rafael went to study in England and Italy and started as a football commentary on different channels one of them was Euro sport.
The year 200 he made his comeback in the manager world buy taking over a second division team called CD Tenerife. He managed to lead the team to the first division La Liga.
This was a kind of success and many clubs started to get interested in Rafael’s skills as a manager. 2001 he was appointed head manager at the big Spanish club Valencia Fc.
Rafael made success with Valencia. He brought a new more attacking play to the club and the fans loved him. 2002 he lead Valencia to their first ever La Liga win.
The following year the expectations were high on the team but they didn’t succeed to stand up to these expectations. Many people wanted Rafael to leave but he stayed and that was a good choice for the club. 2004 Valencia won both the UEFA cup and La Liga.
This made Rafael very popular in Valencia but a argument with the clubs president later that year resulted in his resign.
The same year 2004 he became head manager in Liverpool. The rest is a fairytale. The year after that Liverpool won the Champions League and the year after that the FA cup.
Rafael also managed to take Liverpool to the champion’s league finals in 2007 but they lost the final game to Milan. Rafael is still manager in Liverpool and the only thing left to win with the club is the premiership.
Football Manage Resume
Real Madrid U-19s
Real Madrid B
Valladolid
Osasuna
Extremadura
Tenerife
Valencia
Liverpool