If something is showing the FC Barcelona in the last times, with the arrivals to the place of trainer of technicians like Guardiola, Vilanova, Luis Enrique and now Ernesto Valverde, is that it bets firmly by preparadores that, without need to having trained to any "big "" previously, fulfil with the profile that looks for the technical office in search of the "DNA Barça".
Ernesto Valverde has already a dilated experience like trainer, is true, but the five clubs by which happened previously, Athletic (two-phase), Villarreal, Valencia, Espanyol and Olympiacos can not say that they are of the best teams of Europe, in spite of having competed by them in high heights like the UEFA Europe League.
Since it did charge of the cadet of the Athletic of Bilbao in 1997, until it does hardly some days left the new Saint Mamés, if something has showed Valverde is that it knows to manage changing rooms. After three seasons in the inferior categories of the Athletic, turned into the assistant of Txetxu Red in the Athletic in the season 2000-2001.
A year afterwards took the reins of the filial and to the following classified to the first team for the UEFA, although to the following year left the club by disagreements with the then president, Lamikiz, and took a sabbatical year that devoted to the photography.
Valverde, always ambitious with his teams
In the season 2006-07 fichó by the Espanyol and was able to carry to the group blanquiazul until the final of the Glass of the UEFA of Glasgow, lost in the penaltis in front of the Seville. It continued a campaign more and afterwards went to the Olympiacos in the 2007-08. There it won three Superligas (2009, 2011 and 2012) and two Glasses of Greece (2009 and 2012), in which it went his more successful stage to level of list of winners.
Fichó Later by the Villarreal, but was destituido in January of 2010 and in 2012 tested in Valencia, where in three months gave back to the "chés" to the high zone of the table. It was then when it called him the Athletic of Bilbao, in which it has happened the last four years.
The "lions" have not gone down of the seventh position in LaLiga since, classifying always for the Europe League and winning the Supercopa of Spain to the FC Barcelona in 2015, the first title after 31 years of drought for the Basque club.
Valverde Is the trainer that more split has headed to the rojiblancos, surpassing to Javier Clemente. Now, it opens him a new horizon in a FC Barcelona to the that arrives with the ambition to conquer all the possible titles.