Valladolid sack Mendilibar
Reuters - Monday 01 February 2010, 12:50
MADRID - Real Valladolid have sacked coach
Jose Luis Mendilibar after a poor run of from, the La Liga club
said on Monday.
The head of the B team Onesimo Sanchez has been appointed as
his replacement and will be presented on Tuesday.
"The club have decided to look for a drastic solution to a
negative run of results that have gone on too long," Valladolid
said in a statement on their website.
"Of the last 31 games in La Liga (taking in the final 11 of
last season) the side have only won three times."
Mendilibar, 48, steered Valladolid back into the top flight
as second division champions in 2007 and led them to 15th and
16th-placed finishes over the last two seasons.
Their 1-1 draw at home to fellow strugglers Almeria on
Sunday, however, left them 17th in the standings and one point
above the relegation places.