Barcelona Sin Quique Setien

Quique Setien (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Barcelona officially fired coach Quique Setien. The embarrassing 2-8 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals last Friday was the cause.

"The Board of Directors has agreed that Quique Setien will no longer be coach of the first team. This is the first decision with a more external first team restructuring to be agreed between the current technical secretary and the new coach, which will be announced in the coming days," said a Barca statement. on its official page as quoted by Antara, Tuesday.

Quique Setien came to Barca as coach on January 13 this year. For seven months he coached the first team in 25 matches, 19 in the league, three in the Champions League and three in the Copa del Rey. The result is 16 wins, four draws and five defeats, "he added.

In the Spanish League this season, Barca only finished second. They are five points behind champions Real Madrid.

Barca's elimination by German league champions Bayern on Friday is the fourth time in five years that they have been eliminated in the quarter-finals of Europe's elite club competition.

❗ Quique Setién no longer first team coach. The new coach will be announced in the coming days as part of a wide ranging restructuring of the first team.

- FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) August 17, 2020

Setien is Barca's second coach to be sacked this year. When he joined Barca in January, he replaced Ernest Valverde who was sacked following the defeat to Atletico Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup even though the Catalan club were currently top of the league standings.

As well as Setien's sacking, the club also announced that they will hold presidential elections in March 2021. The current Barca president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, is in the spotlight for many due to Los Blaugrana's recent failures.

❗️ LATEST NEWS | The FC Barcelona Board of Directors call presidential elections for first matchday after March 15, 2021.

- FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) August 17, 2020