Who is new Real Madrid manager Julen Lopetegui?
On Tuesday, Real Madrid announced that Julen Lopetegui would reinstate Zinédine Zidane as their coach, carrying sealed a three-year agreement during a Bernabéu. On Wednesday morning, a 51-year-old was discharged as Spain trainer on a eve of their FIFA World Cup campaign. UEFA.com checks out his coaching credentials.
Lopetegui on fasten Madrid
“It’s a happiest day of my life. [This has] brought behind memories of when we arrived here as an 18-year-old. It was an journey and we was propitious adequate to play for Castilla and a initial team. we was propitious adequate to afterwards manager Castilla and now we can do that with a initial team. It’s a execution of a cycle and for that I’m done up.”
Playing days
A goalkeeper who had brief spells during both Madrid and Barcelona, and featured in Spain’s 1994 World Cup squad, Lopetegui spent a bulk of his personification career with Logroñés and Rayo Vallecano, creation his coaching entrance with a latter in 2003.
Coaching career to date
Following a spell as a pundit, he took assign of Real Madrid’s reserves, Castilla, before heading Spain to excellence during a UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Estonia in 2012. He afterwards stepped adult to a inhabitant team’s Under-21 side and tasted some-more European success with a star-studded group in Israel, in 2013.
After an 18-month spell during Porto, between 2014 and 2016, he returned to a Spain setup, holding over from Vicente del Bosque following their UEFA EURO 2016 exit. He did not remove in his 20 matches in assign (W14 D6).
Did we know?
Lopetegui was coached by Alfredo di Stéfano during Real Madrid and Johan Cruyff during Barcelona. While during Camp Nou, he struck adult a loyalty with Josep Guardiola that was rekindled when Porto met Bayern in a 2014/15 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, a German side violence his group 7-4 on aggregate.
How will his side play?
It is tough to suppose he will demeanour to radically renovate Madrid’s electric conflict and discerning transition – they have only won 3 UEFA Champions Leagues on a bounce, after all! With a proven lane record during girl turn and carrying ushered in a new era of Spain stars to a full general side, there is a good possibility he will need to do likewise during Madrid, with a series of their pivotal players into their 30s.
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