:Real Madrid sacks Xabi Alonso and chooses Arbeloa as his replacement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe French striker posted a message on his social media along with an image shaking hands with the Spanish coach.
\u201cIt has been short, but it has been a pleasure to play for you and learn from you. Thank you for giving me confidence from day one. I will remember you as a coach with clear ideas and a lot of knowledge of football. Good luck in your next chapter,\u201d wrote Mbapp\u00e9.\n\n\nMessages of support from the locker room<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
One of the most emotional messages was from midfielder Arda G\u00fcler<\/strong>, who highlighted Xabi Alonso’s impact on his professional growth.
\u201cThank you for believing in me and trusting me from day one. Every conversation and every demand helped me improve as a player. Your influence will always remain with me\u201d, expressed the Turkish footballer.<\/p>\n\n\nAlso joining in were Dani Ceballos<\/strong> and goalkeeper Andriy Lunin<\/strong>, who agreed in wishing the former Real Madrid coach success. “With your ambition and your way of seeing football, only great things await you,” wrote Ceballos, while Lunin added: “You are a great coach and you are going to achieve many successes.”\n\nFor his part, Dean Huijsen<\/strong> thanked “everything experienced”, and Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni<\/strong> highlighted having learned from “one of the best ever”. Rodrygo Goes<\/strong> also left a message of gratitude for the trust and learning received.\n\n\nThe team’s second captain, Federico Valverde<\/strong>, highlighted the coaching staff’s attitude.
\u201cI wish you the best, mister, to you and the entire coaching staff who always had a great attitude. Success in whatever comes,\u201d wrote the Uruguayan midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSurprise in the club’s environment<\/h3>\n\n\nThe defender Jes\u00fas Vallejo<\/strong>, currently at Albacete, stated in declarations to RNE that Xabi Alonso’s dismissal took the squad by surprise.
\u201cIt was unexpected for everyone. Madrid competed until the end in the Super Cup and had chances to tie,\u201d he pointed out.\n\nVallejo also referred to the new coach, \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa<\/strong>, of whom he said that he knows the club’s environment well and was always a good representative of Real Madrid.\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MADRID (EFE).\u2013 Several Real Madrid players, led by Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, publicly expressed their gratitude and support for coach Xabi Alonso, after his dismissal was confirmed following the defeat in the Spanish Super Cup final. You may be interested in:Real Madrid sacks Xabi Alonso and chooses Arbeloa as his replacement The French striker posted a message […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,15215,40853],"class_list":["post-497497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-real-madrid","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25q9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}