Roberto Martinez is currently manager of Wigan Athletic
, the second club he has managed in his short career. He was appointed manager of Swansea in 2007 at the age of 35 and led the club to promotion to the Championship in 2008 as well as winning the LMA Manager of the Year Award. The following season Martinez showed his ability by guiding Swansea to an 8th place finish in the club’s first season in the Championship and knocking Portsmouth
out of the FA Cup. He was appointed manager of Wigan Athletic
in 2009 after Steve Bruce left for Sunderland.
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Roberto Martinez joined Wigan Athletic as a player in 1995 where he and two other Spaniards Jesus Seba and Isidro Diaz became known as ‘the 3 musketeers.’
Martinez had been at Swansea for 3 years as a player between 2003 and 2006 before returning to manage the club in 2007.
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