Manuel Pellegrini
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"Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti" is a Chilean Manager (association football)/football manager and former footballer, who is the manager of Premier League side Manchester City F.C./Manchester City. As a coach, he has managed teams mostly in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. A qualified Civil engineering/civil engineer and a competent footballer, after Retirement/retiring as a player, he moved into coaching in his native Chile and subsequently Argentina. Pellegrini has won national leagues in four different countries.

Pellegrini moved to Europe in 2004 to take the manager's post at Villarreal CF/Villarreal, a club near Valencia. Under Pellegrini, Villarreal achieved a third place finish in La Liga in 2004–05 La Liga/2004–05, a UEFA Champions League/Champions League 2005–06 UEFA Champions League knockout stage#Semi-finals/semi-final in 2005–06 UEFA Champions League/2005–06 and broke the big two in 2007–08 La Liga/2008 by securing a second place finish in La Liga in 2007–08 La Liga/2007–08.

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I expect to be kept very busy. They have not come here to defend. They have come to win the game. The team that makes fewest mistakes will win.

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We think it was a stone which broke the window. But it didn't affect the way that they played or how they felt before this game.

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Of course it's important to go down in the history, but we are already thinking about how we can get to the semi-finals. There is no limit to the ambitions of this team. Our dreams are being held in place by the hard work and dedication of the whole squad.

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The stoning of the bus by the Rangers fans didn't affect our players. It's a real shame that it occurred but in the end it didn't affect us.

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I was convinced we would eliminate Inter as I thought we lost unjustly in Milan. We knew we were playing against a great team, but we are a great team too.

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He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.

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In the importance of their players and the numbers of players they have in their squad. Every Inter player is capable of doing something at any moment and that's why we will have to be very watchful.

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Diego did not have too many opportunities to impress at Manchester United but he has had time to settle and show what he can do here.

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It was a difficult match, but it is supposed to be at this stage. Rangers were better than us in the first half, because they were more relaxed, but we improved a lot.

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