“Montiel was the fifth, but they have changed. We just chose who was pitching,” the coach confessed matter-of-factly.

With the seventh cup on the way to Seville reinforcing the status of king of the competition, the unknown can not be kept any longer. To the aisle that they will have to make at the Reale Arena in San Sebastian, very close to his home, he has to arrive as another Basque who leads Sevillismo to glory… and the Champions League. Mendilibar will not demand it. His work is done with outstanding. “There will be another club. And if not, to unemployment,” he insists naturally. The simple life.