Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti is a Chilean football manager and former footballer, who is the manager of Premier League side Manchester City. As a coach, he has managed teams mostly in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. A qualified civil engineer and a competent footballer, after 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, a club near Valencia. Under Pellegrini, Villarreal achieved a third place finish in La Liga in 2004?05, a Champions League semi-final in 2005?06 and broke the big two in 2008 by securing a second place finish in La Liga in 2007?08. Pellegrini's consistent record at Villarreal attracted the attention of Real Madrid and he was appointed manager there in 2009. He amassed a total of 96 points, a club record until it was surpassed by Jos� Mourinho in the 2011?12 season, but lost the title to Barcelona by three points. He was dismissed after one season and later lamented the Gal�cticos policy employed at Real which prevented him from building a balanced team. 

September 16th, 1953 in Santiago (Age 71)