THE Rafa Benitez announced by Panathinaikoshe already got a job and is preparing for his debut on the green bench in the match against Asteras Tripoli.
The “Rafa Benitez era” officially started on Friday afternoon (24/10) at Panathinaikos, with the Spanish coach “accepting” the team’s mission to “G. Kalafatis” and to carry out his first training session with the “clover”.
The 65-year-old coach watched together with Giannis Alafouzos the match of the “trefoil” against Feyenoord on Thursday night (23/10), it was officially announced on Friday morning (24/10) and at 12:00 on Saturday (25/10) he will be presented by Panathinaikos in the press room of the team’s training center at “G. Calker”.
And his presentation will be made by Yiannis Alafouzos himself, who had to “present” a new coach since December 2016 (Marino Ouzounidis), but wanted to show his absolute support for the choice he made in the person of Rafa Benitez, as the biggest name coach ever to come to Greece, but also with the biggest contract ever given for a new coach (4 million euros).