This Monday, starts The stage of Xabi Alonso at the head of the bench Real Madrid. What had been an open secret during the last weeks in the halls of Santiago Bernabéu was formalized last Sunday. With this, the white club puts end to the second stage as coach of Carlo Ancelotti and delivery Project keys To the Tolosarra coach. Xabi Alonso arrives from the Bayer Leverkusen, a place where a name as a coach has forged, giving the aspirin club an unforgettable golden age. Now, he faces the most important challenge of his career. Take the reins of what is, according to your predecessor, “The most complicated bench in the world, because it always forces you to win”. Xabi Alonso will be presented as Real Madrid coach on Monday from 12:30 pm in the Sports City, a place that has frequented on more than one occasion.
The Spanish coach knows the thousand wonders the white team. He militated in the ranks of Real Madrid between 2009 and 2014coinciding with the beginning of the most successful stage in the recent history of the club. In his years as a player he agreed with José Mourinhoone of the coaches who has contributed the most to the Tolosarra race, and Carlo Ancelotti, a man who takes over. Beyond his years as a player, Xabi returned to Valdebebas after his withdrawal as a professional to begin his career as a coach at the head of one of the white quarry teams.
Student of the best teachers
Xabi Alonso has lived everything a soccer player can experience. Has militated in Three major European leagues, to each more different. In the beginning he was a Liverpool player, under the orders of Rafa Benítezbut not before debuting in the elite with the Royal Society. Then his stage arrived at Real Madrid, with José Mourinho or Carlo Ancelotti as teachers. He put the end to his career as a player of Bayern Munich, knowing firsthand Pep Guardiola. In selection code, he enjoyed the opportunity to Luis Aragonés and Vicente del Bosquewith opposite styles. In short, the Tolosarra coach was a student of the best teachers. Antagonic styles, which have endowed Xabi Alonso with a very open, pragmatic and effective football knowledge that can deploy as a white coach.
During his time at the Bayer Leverkusen, one more coach has seen interventionist in the game, but with left hand in dealing with their players. Little, or nothing, will have to do what Xabi lived in the Bay Arena with what he will live in the Santiago Bernabéu. That is why we do not know which version we will find from the former Maddedist. The big doubt about his style of play is to know if he will move The proposal to play with three centrals. The presence of a guarantee lane as Alexander Arnold It could facilitate the staging, but the constant injuries that the white club has suffered in that plot could stop Xabi's ideas and opt for a line of four defenders in the absence of troops.
One of Real Madrid's big problems this season has been the absence of an organizing midfielder. In the club they trust that Xabi can develop to Arda Gulereven occupying that position. Although a level incorporation into said plot is not ruled out, even more after The goodbye of Luka Modric. Florian Wirtzone of the franchise players in the Bayer Leverkusen, could come from the hand of Xabi, with which he has deployed his best game, becoming one of the best players in the world. But it seems that the interest of Liverpool moves the idea that Wirtz can wear the next campaign in white.
That left hand acquired by Vicente del Bosque or Carlo Ancelotti, among others, could help Xabi Alonso manage the Rodrygo case, which has been absent from the dynamics of the team during the last month. Xabi is also entrusted with an improvement in the Vinicius and Mbappé connectionthe two players on which the White Project falls. During the season, we have not seen a very strong football bond between the two players, combining stages of greater understanding with others of little connection.
To the Club World Cup with two signings under the arm
The first of the objectives for Real Madrid with the Spanish coach at the controls will be the FIFA Club World Cup. The white team goes as one of the teams with the greatest coefficient in Europe and as champion of the Champions League in two seasons (2022 and 2024). Real Madrid put the point already part in the season after the last day of the League against Real Sociedad. For this last campaign tournament The weight of the bench falls to Xabi Alonsowhich already prepares the World Cup event next June. Real Madrid debuts next day 18 at 9:00 p.m. Your first rival will be the To the Hala of Saudi Arabia And then it will be measured to Pachuca and Red Bull Salzburg. With the domestic competition already completed, the White Club gives a few days of vacation to its non -international players with the National Team, but then the work will return to Valdebebas to prepare, already by the hand of Xabi, the Club World Cup, the first title that he opts for from his arrival to the White bench.
The Real Madrid season has not lived up to expectations. The white team has not been able to get any of the three major titles (League, Cup and Champions). Given this situation, Florentino has made decisions, but not only in the technical plot. The signing of Xabi Alonso is accompanied by the incorporation of Dean Huijsen and the more than possible arrival of Alexander Arnoldwaiting for officialization. Both soccer players could be eligible by the Donostiarra coach to occupy a position in the eleven of the white team in the Club World Cup. The farewell of soccer players such as Luka Modric or Lucas Vázquez are also showing the beginning of a new project at Real Madrid. First level players, emblems of the club have been for years, but the relay in the White House is real. More movements are expected for the start of the season, both in the section of signings and in the outputs.
At first, the Club considered the possibility of granting the white team bench to Santi Solari for this Club World Cup. But finally, it was Xabi Alonso who decided Take the reins of the team as soon as possible to start working in your Real Madrid. As an unbeatable opportunity, he is shot that can be his first title as a white technician. It has an affordable group phase, with smaller rivals, to adapt to the position and their new players. Then it will be the turn of the qualifiers that, as in the World Cup of Selections, will be played to a single match. And we already know how Real Madrid is handled in the spy. It could be the unbeatable start of the project of a coach on which there are many hopes.