What were the last 10 technicians fired by Barça?

Although they accumulate three layoffs in 22 months accounting for the removal of Ronald Koeman, Barça is not characterized by being a club of easy trigger with their technicians. Without going any further, between 2003 (Van Gaal) and 2020 (Valverde) There was not even a dismissal on the bench of an entity that lived through times of glory and stability that now seem very distant.

Eleven games (10 league games not counting the postponed against Sevilla) has lasted Koeman on the Barça bench, the most ephemeral record since the times of Terry Venables, who was fired on September 23, 1987 after directing only four league matches in his fourth year at the helm of Barça.

Is he clearer parallelism in the recent history of the Catalan entity. Venables He arrived at Barça as a replacement for the ‘skinny’ Menotti in the post-Maradona era. Recommended by Robson and good friend of Nunez, the coach won the league title in the 1984-85 campaign. A year later, he reached the final of the European Cup of Sevilla of unfortunate memory.

Pañolada a Venables

In his third season he lost the Cup final to him Zaragoza. There was no ‘feeling’ or confidence in him, but he started the fourth exercise and went to the street on the fast track with cloth included in the Camp Nou against Valencia (0-1). He debuted with triumph in Las Palmas, but added three consecutive defeats in the League that were decisive, including a derby in Sarrià (2-0). Luis Aragones picked up his baton at a time when Javier ClementeThen at Espanyol, he sounded like a future coach.

In the 80s, there were other dismissals in the Barça entity, but not as sudden as Venables. Ladislao Kubala lasted nine days, two less than Koeman, in the 1980-81 season, while Udo Lattek coached the first 26 matches of 1982-83 and Quimet Rifé reached 23 in 1979-80 after replacing Lucien Muller, another of the coaches who suffered the guillotine of Nunez.

Gaspart y Van Gaal

Even the most emblematic club technicians have gone through the bad drink of dismissal, starting with Johan Cruyff, that closed its victorious cycle with a settlement on May 18, 1996. The Barça season was very disappointing and the defeat in the Cup final accelerated their goodbye. Five years later, it was the turn of Serra Ferrer, which was kept in the technical secretariat and in January 2003 there was another of the most prominent dismissals: that of Louis van Gaal.

Koeman already joked a month ago with the words of his enemigo van gaal, that alluded to the happiness of the “friends of the press” for their goodbye at the beginning of the century. The second stage of the current Netherlands coach it ended with a defeat in Vigo. The Dutchman was caught by Joan Gaspart to face a second stage that turned out to be a fiasco.

Toño de la Cruz (a match) and Radomir Antic they finished that campaign. The Barça entered later in a stage of some stability. There were no layoffs until January 2020, when Ernesto Valverde was struck down by Bartomeu after the defeat in the Super Cup against Atlético.

The 2-8 of Setién

Barça had won two leagues with the Extremaduran coach and also commanded the championship in his third year, but the debacles europeas and the disappointment of the fans weighed too much. Time showed that his removal was not the solution dreamed of. Quique Setien supplied him with dire results crowned with the thrashed in Lisbon against Bayern (2-8).

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