Real Madrid have appointed their former midfielder Xabi Alonso as manager on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n
Alonso, who made 236 appearances for Real Madrid as a player, announced earlier this month that he would leave Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n The former Liverpool and Spain midfielder, 43, led Leverkusen to the Bundesliga title \u2013 without losing a game \u2013 and the German Cup in his first full season as a senior club manager during the 2023-24 campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n Alonso, who has signed a deal running until 30 June 2028, succeeds Carlo Ancelotti. Alonso, who won the Champions League as a player at Real in 2014, will be introduced as manager at Real Madrid\u2019s training ground on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this month Ancelotti called Alonso \u201cone of the best in the world\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Bayer Leverkusen failed to retain their Bundesliga this season, finishing second behind Bayern Munich.<\/span><\/p>\n Former Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag is on the brink of agreeing a deal to replace Alonso at Leverkusen.<\/span><\/p>\n BBC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid have appointed their former midfielder Xabi Alonso as manager on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10771,10772,2320,10773],"class_list":["post-23937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-alonso","tag-ancelotti","tag-r-madrid","tag-real-madrid-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23937\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Italian took charge of his final game for the Spanish giants on Saturday, and will now become coach of Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n