{"id":665059,"date":"2026-03-18T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/665059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:51:15","slug":"xabi-alonso-was-one-of-the-worst-real-madrid-coaches-in-recent-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/665059\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cXabi Alonso was one of the worst Real Madrid coaches in recent years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Real Madrid\u2019s qualification for the Champions League quarter-finals sparked strong reactions across Spanish radio, with Radio MARCA\u2019s La Tribu offering a blunt assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Javier Tinto, speaking alongside Pedro Riesco, Emilio P\u00e9rez de Rozas, Paul Tenorio and Nacho Palencia, praised Madrid\u2019s performance while also drawing sharp conclusions about the managerial transition from Xabi Alonso to alvaro Arbeloa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI really liked the start of the game by Madrid, having a chance right at the start and although they were then tucked in at the back, they were able to get out and create chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThey played a very good game and we have to highlight Arbeloa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He then addressed a narrative that has followed recent results, dismissing the idea that players were behind the previous managerial change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis shows that Vinicius did not throw Xabi Alonso out. Xabi Alonso was one of the worst coaches of Madrid in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid\u2019s qualification for the Champions League quarter-finals sparked strong reactions across Spanish radio, with Radio MARCA\u2019s La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":665060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[125443,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-665059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-real-madrid-cf-coach","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116251687989585155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}