After his controversial departure from Unión, Gallego Méndez began his cycle in Vélez

Sebastian Mendez He has already turned the page and started a new cycle. The Galician who resigned last Sunday Santa Fe Unionhad Tuesday afternoon his first training session in charge of Vélez Sarsfieldone of the rival directors of the Tate in the struggle to get out of the bottom of the general table of the professional league.

The DT appeared in the Olympic Village to take charge of the group although He has not yet built his contract with the institutiongiven that Unión requested financial compensation as compensation.

Méndez will debut at the helm of Vélez this Friday at Liniers against Arsenala rival director of his new team in the fight for permanence: those of the Viaducto occupied the last place in the annual table and also that of the averages, destined for the end-of-year declines.

Velez (18 units) It is currently in the 26th. position and should play a tiebreaker match with banfield to define the relegation In this way, although it is true that there are still 60 points at stake, between the six remaining dates of the Professional League and the League Cup.

The career as DT and the numbers of Gallego Méndez

Sebastian Mendez began his coaching career at San Lorenzo (2010) for 7 games. Then they went through Banfield, Atlanta, Platense, Gimnasia de Jujuy, Godoy Cruz de Mendoza, Belgrano, Palestino, Gymnastics as an assistant to Diego Maradona and later as an interim, Cúcuta in Colombia, Tijuana in Mexico and the last step through Unión. in his carrer he directed 254 gamesof which won 91, tied 76 and lost 87.

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