jimmybn
29-08-2017, 01:55 PM
If the guy was responsible mainly for all our incomings this season then hats off the guy - has hardly put a foot wrong in my opinion and found some real gems. Not the "foreign nonentities" many on here feared...
A few facts about the man with an eye for talent:
As a child he first created a mental database of players as his elder brother quizzed him on World Cup stars from Panini books and after that he never stopped learning, absorbing and trying to impart information.
He is a qualified coach. He taught himself Italian so he could follow Serie A. He is a former journalist who worked for Marca and Sky Espana. He has worked as a football agent and was on the admin staff at Valladolid before being taken on as part of the technical and recruitment staff at Sevilla.
Orta was soon promoted to “technical director” and excelled in spotting young players from smaller clubs and from abroad and helped bring in Bryan Rabello, Didier Zokora, Sébastien Squillaci among a host of the stars who cemented Sevilla as a Spanish and Euro power.
He then went to Russia and Zenit St Petersburg where he helped bring in a swath of top names, including Brazilian World Cup star Hulk.
A few facts about the man with an eye for talent:
As a child he first created a mental database of players as his elder brother quizzed him on World Cup stars from Panini books and after that he never stopped learning, absorbing and trying to impart information.
He is a qualified coach. He taught himself Italian so he could follow Serie A. He is a former journalist who worked for Marca and Sky Espana. He has worked as a football agent and was on the admin staff at Valladolid before being taken on as part of the technical and recruitment staff at Sevilla.
Orta was soon promoted to “technical director” and excelled in spotting young players from smaller clubs and from abroad and helped bring in Bryan Rabello, Didier Zokora, Sébastien Squillaci among a host of the stars who cemented Sevilla as a Spanish and Euro power.
He then went to Russia and Zenit St Petersburg where he helped bring in a swath of top names, including Brazilian World Cup star Hulk.