10:40  ,  January 15, 2020

FIDE congratulates Barcelona’s new manager (PHOTO)

FIDE congratulated Barcelona’s new manager Quique Setien who is a big chess fan and a chess player.

Quique Setien is a keen chess player with FIDE standard rating of 2055, FIDE said.

“The game of chess taught me to analyze and understand football in a way that I did not know before,”
he said in 2016.

 Barcelona signed a 2.5-year deal with Setien who will replace Ernesto Valverde.

 

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