On Sunday evening was celebrated Rafael Benítez. “You have given us the best years of our lives,” proclaimed a banner. To the tune of “I love you, baby” his name was chanted. Benítez registered it on the sidelines, he thanked with a friendly gesture:. The fans in Valencia
On Monday evening was Rafael Benítez then dismissed. Thus, the tribute was in the stadium, which he once gave such great successes (two championships, a Uefa Cup with Valencia), his last appearance as manager of the club, which he always wore in the heart: Real Madrid.
The man from Madrid Benítez came as tots to Real and began at youth level and his coaching career. The job as a head coach in the summer of 2015 should take the crowning achievement of his career. They turned out to be big misunderstanding. After half a year of 55-year-old is his dream job already going on.
One of the first Galacticos
After a meeting of the Bureau president Florentino Perez announced the news. “It was a difficult decision,” he said in the same field of honor Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, where he had the coach still repeatedly expressed confidence in recent weeks. We know this from the football.
Unusual is there already, that the successor was sitting right next to him. In blue jacket and with a bald head: the eleventh coach in Pérez ‘tenures (2000 to 2006 and since 2009) Zinédine Zidane’s. When King Transfer contractor and one of the first “Galácticos” the football icon 2001 came to Madrid.
With Real he ended his career in 2006 and later launched the coaching career. In the 2013/2014 season he was an assistant at the first team, after he took over the second team.
“I’m more excited than when I as a player at this club was, “Zidane said in brief joint appearance shortly after 20 clock, in which no questions were permitted.
Worse than under Ancelotti
Instead of having to laboriously explain his about-turn in the Causa Benítez, left Pérez the stage rather quickly as possible of the old, new shining light and its promise: “I will do everything to ensure that the club this year still win something.”
The Frenchman is to improve the balance sheet, which reads as follows: third place División with eleven wins, four draws and three defeats in the Primera, their group in the Champions League From the Cup against third division side Cadiz because of an installation error, the Benítez had most responsible for a small part – and a lot of damage for both sides.
Benítez passes the team’s in worse shape than he took over from his predecessor Carlo Ancelotti. From comparisons with European Cup participants Real won this season only 27.7 percent of the points.
Key players go the distance
Ever since the 0: 4-debacle home six weeks before the Clasico against Barcelona the history of forecasted dismissal was only listed. In Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Benítez was booed regularly in camouflaged surveys among members of the club earned scathing approval ratings for the coach. Against Rayo Vallecano (10: 2) and Real Sociedad (3: 1) saved him last only scandalous referee errors
that he is now after the 2:. 2 Valencia got their marching orders, may be surprising inasmuch as there had been worse performances of his team this season. At least was fighting real after it had to act in shorthanded after a red card for Mateo Kovacic.
But after the final whistle key players went in their interviews more clearly distance themselves from their manager than in recent weeks. When asked whether an exchange would bring to the bench something answered about vice captain Marcelo: “Sometimes it works better with a coaching change, even better without, hard to say.”
Players mocked
The troubled relationship almost for the entire team is at the center of the failed Liaison. Sure, every other colleague, it would have been difficult in the face of the Depression in the team on the dismissal of the esteemed Ancelotti. But the head man Benítez was the worst occupation in this context.
empathy and willingness to compromise were never to his strengths. Instead pats wounded player souls there were pushy tactics work; the Stars complained after a few weeks of boredom.
Cristiano Ronaldo played persistently under level, Toni Kroos never found his role, crowd favorite Isco was not allowed to last longer on the square, which also downgraded James Rodríguez was apparently so frustrated that he lived out his aggression on the accelerator – some players went their manager just out of the way, others made fun of him openly.
President must save themselves
Ultimately had to Pérez, the failure of his attempt to admit to break a player makes, which had crept in his view, under Ancelotti. That he even undermines the authority of his coach, by giving them bad balanced squad by the hand and regular place guarantees for Toptransfers recommends is as ironic as obvious.
Well, the President did not last save himself. Also because of the trainer exchange in summer the displeasure expressions of fans directed increasingly against him
By ordering Zidane he makes at least on the popularity level everything right. The shooter of Volleytors the Champions League final victory in 2002 against Bayer Leverkusen undivided devotion enjoys among the Madridistas.
conspiracy theories circulating
However, the Frenchman was coach of the second team – is currently in second place in group two viergleisigen the third division – in the last year and a half no more than an ordinary character from. Zidane himself stressed that he needed as a coach more time for its development. But now he could Pérez ‘Advertise no longer resist.
For Benítez, meanwhile, ends an unworthy stalemate in which his reputation took considerable damage. More and more desperate, he had tried to justify in recent weeks having regard to past merits and recently even acquired the conspiracy of its President.
“There is a campaign against me, against Florentino and against the team”, he claimed yet last week. Victims only he is for the time being, however, itself.
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