when real madrid A sign of their next participation in FIFA World Cup With a post on their social media accounts on Saturday, the biggest face in the complex image was not that of Star Striker Kylian Mbappe.
Not Vinícius júnioror Jude BellinghamAlthough all the three stars were shown, along with the shiny cup of the competition and pictures of the height of American skyscrapers and bridges.
Instead, he dominated the image – very handsome – very handsome – for the new coach Xabi Alonso. It was only a few weeks, but indeed Madrid It cannot be more enthusiastic for the Alonso era, and his promise outperforms the strength of the common stars of three of the game most in the game.
The arrival of the new coach-who returned to the club, where he admired as a player and then started his training trip at the Academy-on May 25, a day after 2024-25 from Madrid Laja The season is over. He took his first training session on June 9, just seven days ago. But Madrid Alonso is in Palm Beach, Florida, they are preparing for the club’s World Cup.
Besides this noise, evidence of what Alonso was rarely planned. At home in Madrid, at the club’s Valdebas base, the training was trained behind the closed doors last week. Only 15 minutes of the first open session on Sunday in the United States, in their training camp in the Palm Beach Gardens, was open to the media. But the little we saw from Alonso at work, in the pictures and video that was carefully assembled and released by the club, was interesting.
Each image has already been analyzed and analyzed by fans. In one of the photos, from a group released on June 9, Alonso sits in an office with five main training employees: Sebas Barilla (Assistant Director), Ismail Kaminfurt (fitness coach), Alberto Ensinas, LaPayain’s data (analysts) and Louis Lopeus (coach to maintain continuous goals). Their laptops are ready, with what looks like tactical plans on the screens. Alonso is preparing with a tablet in front of him. The intended message, perhaps unfairly, is clear: this is a completely modern coach, unlike his predecessor Carlo Ancelotti.
Training footage shows that Alonso focuses completely, inputs and directed towards detail as you expected: active guidance, stop playing when necessary, sign and screaming, watching his players in each step and correcting their sites frequently.
Again, the contradiction with Ancelotti could not be the most comfortable. Alonso may have played under the cooled Italian cancellation. But he learned his trade under the leadership of Rafa Benitez, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola as well.
At his preliminary news conference on May 26, Alonso gave more hints about the type of team that we might see begin to develop in the club’s World Cup and prosperity in Laysa next season. He said: “Today in football, you must be flexible and dynamic. [defenders]Or with three.
“What I want is that we know how to choose our moments, to be organized, control of the ball, and know what to do when we do not have a ball. You have to press when it is necessary, and sit when it is necessary. It comes to an initiative, and we have players to do so.”
We will get the first real glimpse of how close to Alonso’s fetal side is the ideal when Madrid begins Hillaal At Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, on Wednesday.
The next task for Alonso is great. Madrid was weak last season, and it fell into an ineffective shadow for the team that won Laliga and Champions League Previous year. Upon payment, Alonso refused to provide an analysis of the side of the side, hesitating to enter into details.
“I have seen the games, I have analyzed them, and now I am thinking about what we can do to balance and control,” he said. “This will give us stability that will enable individual qualities to prosper.”
Balance and control. Both were lacked Ancelotti last season. The campaign was not a catastrophe: the team ranked second in Laja, and the title race survived until May and reached Cuba del Rery last. But Madrid was embarrassed in the Champions League round in the second round of 16 Arsenal1-1 loss on the total-and four times a loss in a row Clásicos to Barcelona For the first time in 15 years, including 4-3 on May 11, which delivered the league spray. MBAPé may have scored 43 goals in all competitions, but it was only the only functional part of the team.
This means that Ancelotti had to lose his job. It was a decision before Ancelotti himself and his understanding Emotional farewell offering And moving to the next destination that he had been imagining for a long time, such as BrazilThe national team coach. For a long time equally – dating years – Alonso was a favorite for Madrid to replace him. This opinion was supported by its performance in Bayer LeverkusenWith 2023-24 it was not defeated Bundesliga The title of the title holder.
Conditions made delivery unexpectedly embarrassing. Madrid could not behave while they were, even in theory, in the title race. Alonso did not like, with respect, to make his future plans open until the end of the Leverkusen season. The Football Association in Brazil was keen – for internal political reasons – to secure Ancelotti as soon as possible. The result was that Alonso confirmed his departure Leverkusen on May 9, then Ancelotti was announced as a coach in Brazil, 11 days before he left in Madrid.
Ancelotti did not disturb much, gave his former player his blessing, and Alonso described as a “wonderful” coach who was “all the doors open to him. “He showed himself to be one of the best coaches in the world.”
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When Alonso was finally introduced as a new coach to Madrid on May 26, he was expected to be expected, attractive and eloquent. However, there were some topics that he had to work hard to avoid it, such as when Madrid offered him the job, and the amount of inputs he had in issues such as the decision not to grant the veteran midfielder to grant Luka Modric New contract.
He will not adhere to Takben, he says again that “football is dynamic”. When asked how he would help MBAPPé and Vini JR. At work together as two pilots, he indirectly answered: “I have ideas.” There was more details about the position of Jude Bellingham – “I see it as a midfielder. We will try to ensure that he is as effective as possible” – and the answer is not binding on Rodrigo Who, the sources told ESPN, He wants clarity in his future role. “I will talk to all players, because we have to get to know each other,” Alonso said.
The club’s World Cup is between two seasons, two times, and two Real Madrid teams. Old warriors such as Modric and Lucas Fawzuiz He will play with Madrid in the tournament for the last time, before their contracts end. Two new players, Al -Awda Center Brigadier General Huijson And the right return Trent Alexander ArnoldShe has already signed with the team in Florida. Two others in the United States, but elsewhere. River Playmaker Franco Mastantoneo He will join August when he is 18 years old, while leaving him back álvaro carrras Still with BenficaThe two clubs are unable to agree on fees.
The defender who plays the ball Huigson believes that “it is suitable for football in Xabi”. Alexander-Arnold says Alonso was a “great idol” for him as a child, and more than that, it has already affected the development of the full play style. “It affected my match,” Alexander Arnold said on Thursday. “Watching the ball gave me hunger to do so. He is a new manager, but he showed how amazing. I will fall all the information I can.”
Alonso was hesitant to face the club’s World Cup and preferred to start after that. A temporary date was seen, such as Football Director, Santi Solari, before he was rejected as impractical.
Alonso has not yet had a new team to collect a new team, with a new philosophy and identity, but the demands in Madrid are blind. They will be high as it was always. Even early disposal, even in the phase of the defeated, will be seen as unacceptable. But there is also an attractive possibility for a good performance, which is an early evidence of the concept of the Alonso project. “These are the circumstances, and as soon as you are like this, I see it as an opportunity,” Alonso insisted last month. On the one hand, to start operations, how we want [the team] He is. Then on the other hand, to fight for the cup. If we do these two things, it may be a great start. “
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These “circumstances” include three players – Feni Junior, Arda Goller and Andre Lenin – A meeting with Alonso and the team for the first time on Saturday, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach, after the end of its international obligations. Other decisive characters-MBAPPé, bellingham, Alexander-Arnold, Huijsen, Modric and Aurélien Tchouaméni He only returned on Friday, which means that they will only have completed five training sessions before the first match of Alonso.
Then there is a long list of others – Danny Carvajaland éder miltãoand Antonio Rudigerand David Alabaand Eduardo Kamavaand Endrick and Verland Mendi – Those who are still completely inappropriate and work on their recovery. All of them were named in the World Cup in Madrid and traveled to the United States
Speaking when he arrived in Palm Beach, Alonso made his best to stay optimistic. “It was very positive,” he said. “to get to know [the players] Little by little, with this connection, this is very necessary. More players arrive.
“Everything has been hurried a lot, because we have a little time to get to know each other. We have arrived today, and we will start creating a team. We have three training sessions before [Al Hilal] The match, but we are excited about being here, we have a good championship, and go to the end. “
This is Madrid’s goal: reaching the final at Metlife Stadium. But there is also another goal, more important: building an improved team for the next season, a team that will not overcome repeatedly by Barcelona or outperform any big team they face in the Champions League. In this regard, it is not yet clear whether this tournament will be help, or an obstacle.
