Álvaro García Pascual, who last year was playing college soccer in the United States, gave Sevilla a 1-0 home win over Las Palmas and moved the traditional Spanish club on the verge of escaping relegation in the Spanish league on Tuesday.
A large group of Sevilla fans forced their way onto the premises of the club's training ground on Saturday after their anger at the team's bad season boiled over following another loss.
Fourth spell begins for club’s eighth head coach in less than three seasons, in wake of fourth defeat in a row Just before two o’clock on Palm Sunday, as Holy Week began and religious brotherhoods started their slow, swaying progress through the streets of Seville, first La Paz, then La Hiniesta, then the rest, a man entered the city at Santa Justa. Aged 69, diagnosed with leukaemia five years ago, wearing a grey cardigan, blue jacket and a slightly manic smile, he’s thinner than before but couldn’t be more familiar. Joaquín Caparrós has coached Sevilla more times than anyone, across three spells, the first a quarter of a century ago; now he was returning for a fourth. “My face is a reflection; it says it all,” he said, leaving the station and stopping on the corner, searching for the car coming for him. Caparrós arrived on a train, alone and as their saviour. As somebody’s saviour, anyway: someone to get behind, someone to hide behind too, for a little while. Two days earlier Sevilla had lost 1-0 at Valencia. That night, manager Xavier García Pimienta said he would be with his players until the end of the world but he didn’t make it to the end of the weekend. On Thursday, the president José Maria del Nido Carrasco had declared it “time to be close to the coaching staff” and on Saturday they took training as normal; 24 hours later, they had been sacked. Caparrós had already been called. He will be their eighth coach in less than three seasons. Continue reading...
Sevilla's LaLiga match with Atlético Madrid was briefly suspended on Sunday after fans threw pieces of card onto the pitch.
Pablo Barrios scored deep in added time to give Atlético Madrid a much-needed 2-1 LaLiga win at Sevilla on Sunday that ended their six-game winless run.
Cremonese's Serie B game against Bari last month was overshadowed by accusations of racist abuse after Franco Vasquez allegedly left Mehdi Dorval in tears after their 1-1 draw and league officials have now decided to hand the former Sevilla midfielder a ten-match ban
Isco signed with Real Betis in 2023 after being a season with Sevilla Leer
