Real Madrid gets a new Head Coach

Real Madrid has announced Spain’s  national team coach, Julen Lopetegui will take over as Real Madrid manager after the 2018 World Cup.

The Spanish club and winners of the 2018 Champions League,Real Madrid announced on late Tuesday 12 th June 2018  just two days before the tournament begins in Russia.

Madrid had been looking for a replacement since Zinedine Zidane stepped down from the position in April 2018  just days after winning a third consecutive Champions League trophy.

Julen Lopetegui, after guiding Spain easily through qualification to the World Cup finals, had showed interest on the team but was not among the more than 20 names shortlisted by the management.

But with three days before Spain’s World Cup opener against Portugal in Sochi, Madrid announced that the Basque tactician, will take the prestigious post with the La Liga giants,Real Madrid for a period of three years.

The Spaniard footballer and now Head Coach,Lopetegui has never lost a match since he took over the affairs of the Spanish national team in July 2016 in the wake of the European Championship.

The celebrity coach counts 14 wins with six draws for the second-longest unbeaten start by a coach in Spain’s history.

Life as a Player and Coach

Julen Lopetegui was a goalkeeper who spent spells as a backup at both Madrid and Barcelona, also playing for Rayo Vallecano and CD Logrones.

He began his coaching career at Rayo, in the second tier before moving to Madrid’s Castilla youth side.

He then coached Spain’s under-19s, under-20s and under-21s, winning the European titles with the U-19s in 2012 and U-21s in 2013.

His only previous top-flight club head coaching experience was with Porto, where he failed to win a trophy but reached the Champions League quarter-finals. He then succeeded mentor Vicente Del Bosque in the Spain job following La Roja’s early exit at Euro 2016.

His team, Spain will face Iran,Morocco and Portugal in Group B at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Lopetegui will be Real Madrid’s first Spanish coach with no prior experience managing a team in the Spanish top flight since Del Bosque in 1994.

Benly Anchunda

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