{"id":114227,"date":"2025-05-24T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=114227"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T15:18:29","slug":"why-xabi-alonso-could-transform-real-madrid-championsleague-realmadrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=114227","title":{"rendered":"Why Xabi Alonso Could Transform Real Madrid | #championsleague #realmadrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Itg-Enqydg4?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Welcome to The Athletic FC&#8217;s YouTube channel, where best-in-class journalism meets video.<\/p>\n<p>With Carlo Ancelotti departing to manage Brazil, the stage looks set for Xabi Alonso to return to Real Madrid as head coach. But how would the team look under his management?<\/p>\n<p>JJ Bull takes a look \ud83e\udde0<\/p>\n<p>#footballshorts #soccer #premierleague <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Try The Athletic for FREE for 30 days: https:\/\/theathletic.com\/checkout2\/intro30\/?source=video_youtube_theathleticfc<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcbb \ud83c\udfa7 Watch the Tifo Football Podcast here https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@tifo-podcast <\/p>\n<p>Follow The Athletic FC:<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAthleticFC<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theathleticfc<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@theathleticfc<\/p>\n<p>Listen to The Athletic Football Podcast:<br \/>\nApple Podcasts: https:\/\/bit.ly\/TAFPod<br \/>\nSpotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/69AAB4ojTuK7gwy3ZdQdB9<br \/>\nSubscribe to The Athletic FC newsletter for free: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/newsletters\/the-athletic-fc\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow The Athletic&#8217;s Premier League WhatsApp Channel here: https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va4OzCyKwqSbZb1pna0K<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Additional footage sourced from AP Newsroom<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Itg-Enqydg4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Athletic FC&#8217;s YouTube channel, where best-in-class journalism meets video. With Carlo Ancelotti departing to manage Brazil, the stage looks set for Xabi Alonso to return to Real&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":114228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}