Pellegrino handed Reds role
Former defender back at Anfield as first-team coach
Last updated: 30th June 2008
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Liverpool have appointed former defender Mauricio Pellegrino as first-team coach.
The Argentine has been working as a youth team coach at Valencia but will now return to Merseyside to join the backroom team that also has Sammy Lee recently installed as assistant manager.
Pellegrino played 12 matches for Liverpool under Benitez in 2005, having previously shared the title triumphs at Valencia with the Anfield boss.
Last season Benitez lost coach Alex Miller, who took up a management job with JEF United in Japan, while Pako Ayesteran departed after a fall-out with the Spaniard.
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Benitez told the club's official website: "His role will be first-team coach, and he will also carry out specialist training sessions.
"He can also work specifically with the defence, and also the reserves.
"Pellegrino has a winning mentality. He won the Inter-continental Cup before going to Spain with Barcelona and Valencia.
"He has a lot of passion. When I asked him to come he was very pleased, but first he wanted to find out if there was a school where his three children could play good football.
"He is a football man."
Mauricio Pellegrino nouvel entraineur de Liverpool.
Il avait joué un dizaine de matchs en 2005 sous les ordres de Rafa.