Viel Glück, Xabi!
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This article dated 14 Nov 2020 was written after 3 league matches. After 19 games, they are joint-top, with the best GD.
Hometown hero Xabi Alonso has Real Sociedad's B team top of the league and playing football with flair... after an apprenticeship with Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich, the self-confident rookie boss already looks destined for the dugout on the big stage
If you are interested in the tactical aspect:
Xabi Alonso’s In-possession tactics at Real Sociedad B – tactical analysis
On a sidenote:
Xabi Alonso: 'When I finished playing, I could not leave football behind'
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[article]Bayern’s chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, told Kicker in 2019: “I think we have to make an effort to bring Xabi Alonso back to Bayern at some point. He is the best central midfielder we’ve had in recent years. He wasn’t the quickest, but he was the best strategically and the most intelligent I’ve ever seen in our midfield. He was a marvellous player, who speaks four languages and German fluently. He was a real personality. I’d really like him to return to Bayern one day, he’s a true gentleman.”[/article]
Hometown hero Xabi Alonso has Real Sociedad's B team top of the league and playing football with flair... after an apprenticeship with Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich, the self-confident rookie boss already looks destined for the dugout on the big stage
If you are interested in the tactical aspect:
Xabi Alonso’s In-possession tactics at Real Sociedad B – tactical analysis
On a sidenote:
Xabi Alonso: 'When I finished playing, I could not leave football behind'
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[article]Bayern’s chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, told Kicker in 2019: “I think we have to make an effort to bring Xabi Alonso back to Bayern at some point. He is the best central midfielder we’ve had in recent years. He wasn’t the quickest, but he was the best strategically and the most intelligent I’ve ever seen in our midfield. He was a marvellous player, who speaks four languages and German fluently. He was a real personality. I’d really like him to return to Bayern one day, he’s a true gentleman.”[/article]
Would love to see him do well.
Too soon to think post Klopp.
[article]Former Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has signed a one-year extension to remain as youth team coach at Real Sociedad until summer 2022, the club said on Friday.
German newspaper Bild reported earlier this week that Alonso, who won the World Cup and two European Championship titles and was a Champions League winner at Liverpool and Real Madrid, was set to take over at Borussia Moenchengladbach next season.
Gladbach, 10th in the Bundesliga, have been looking for a new coach since announcing in February that current manager Marco Rose will join Borussia Dortmund this summer.
It now appears that the 39-year-old Alonso will remain in San Sebastian, where he has worked since 2019.[/article]
[article]Xabi Alonso was happy to renew his contract with Real Sociedad until 2022 this week, extending his deal until the summer of 2022 to ward off links with Borussia Monchengladbach. His ambition is to achieve promotion with Sanse, La Real’s B team, from the Segunda B to the Segunda.
“I’m very happy and satisfied with how things are going and the fact that the club and I understand each other so well,” he said as per Marca. “We want to continue helping with this project and ensuring there are better prepared players for the first team.
“All experiences contribute, and these have been two very enriching years for myself, the club and the project that’s here, it’s very attractive.
“Being involved in that last step before the first team, being able to help in pushing the players to earn promotion is a great satisfaction that makes me very proud and a participant of the great work being done in Zubieta. Being able to help them is a great comfort to me.”
Himself a product of La Real’s youth system, Alonso earned promotion to the first team in 2000, but had to spend a season on loan at Eibar to really earn his spot.
From there he joined Liverpool in 2004, spending five years at Anfield before joining Real Madrid, where he played for another five years. The final three years of his career were spent at Bayern Munich.
Alonso won practically all there is to win as a player. He won the Champions League with both Liverpool and Madrid, as well as domestic titles in both Spain in Germany. As an international, the Basque won Euro 2008 and 2012 as well as the 2010 World Cup.[/article]
“I’m very happy and satisfied with how things are going and the fact that the club and I understand each other so well,” he said as per Marca. “We want to continue helping with this project and ensuring there are better prepared players for the first team.
“All experiences contribute, and these have been two very enriching years for myself, the club and the project that’s here, it’s very attractive.
“Being involved in that last step before the first team, being able to help in pushing the players to earn promotion is a great satisfaction that makes me very proud and a participant of the great work being done in Zubieta. Being able to help them is a great comfort to me.”
Himself a product of La Real’s youth system, Alonso earned promotion to the first team in 2000, but had to spend a season on loan at Eibar to really earn his spot.
From there he joined Liverpool in 2004, spending five years at Anfield before joining Real Madrid, where he played for another five years. The final three years of his career were spent at Bayern Munich.
Alonso won practically all there is to win as a player. He won the Champions League with both Liverpool and Madrid, as well as domestic titles in both Spain in Germany. As an international, the Basque won Euro 2008 and 2012 as well as the 2010 World Cup.[/article]
It is nearly 5 pm on a Sunday, there have been a total of 6 (six) posts in this forum so far today, and this one is the most interesting
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