Unai Emery and Villarreal: a relationship that has made history
Villarreal it's a real party. The ‘yellow submarine’ is the brand new champion of the UEFA Europa League 2021 after tying 1 against him Manchester United and win in a round where nothing more and nothing less were launched 22 penalties.
In this way, Castellón win the first European title of its history, which puts them on the list of Spanish teams that achieved a European title and highlights the good work of a club that continues steadily on its way to establish itself as one of the benchmark teams in Spanish football.
However, one of the main architects of this new success has been, undoubtedly, Unai emery. The Basque technician has managed to fit all the pieces of the ambitious project that the Villarreal built this summer, and that he gave him with the utmost enthusiasm.
Finally Riquelme's famous penalty is avenged in a shootout with 22 penalties
If there is a moment burned in all the fans of the Villarreal is that penalty missed by Riquelme, in front of the Arsenal in a distant already 2006, that ended up getting them off a whole final of Champions League.
That team was the clear protagonist of the old continent in the season 2005/06, and he was very close to working the machado in his first participation in the European cup.
That wound healed 15 years later, in a penalty shootout where 11 Villarreal players including goalkeeper Gero Rulli, scored their penalty and in which United, I note 10 missing only his goalkeeper David De Gea.
Emery, the ‘Europa League master’
When he got to the bench Villarreal many were the objectives, but one stood out above the rest: the UEFA Europa League. Unai emery knows this competition perfectly, which he has conquered three times, and consecutively, with the Sevilla (2014, 2015 Y 2016) and one with him Villarreal (2021)
From there, the choice that he was the captain of a yellow ship that wanted to reach a good port, and he has achieved it. with the consummation of this title. We could catalog Unai emery as the true 'magician of the Europa League’.
