After his historic triumph in the Youth League, the first Real Madrid have won in its history, Raúl González has reaffirmed (and reinforced) his candidacy to coach the first white team in the future. The Madrid coach has achieved the feat of winning four games in just nine days, leaving his mark on each of the clashes that his pupils have played (Juventus, Inter, Salzburg and Benfica in the final): he has not hesitated to show a fast team and vertical from midfield forward, while in the rear he has been forceful, although both in the semifinals and in the final he did not have buts to change his defensive system to incorporate a third central in order to reinforce and guarantee the victory. Raúl, like other technicians trained in the lower categories, is sowing his way with a firm step. We remember other coaches who also traveled the path that Raúl is now crossing …
Miguel Munoz
At the end of the 1950s, Bernabéu decided to replace Fleitas Solich with Miguel Muñoz: the coach directed the Plus Ultra, then the white subsidiary. Muñoz would be until 1974 as coach of the first team achieving two European Cups (he also directed a European tie in the 1958-59 season against the Austrian Wiener due to Solich being intervened for some ailments), nine Leagues, two Cups and an Intercontinental were his legacy. He is the coach who has led Madrid the longest in the history of the Madrid team.
Amancio Amaro
The Galician witch He was a Madrid player from 1962 to 1976, the year in which he retired. After obtaining the title of coach he entered the lower categories of the white team. There he modeled The Quinta del Vulture, with which he won the Second League (1984). However, he was not very successful managing the first team. He was relieved after a 2-0 loss to Inter in the UEFA Cup: a series of incidents occurred at the hotel that night that ended with his departure. The players accused him of being a “snitch” of the president. He was relieved by Molowny.
Vicente del Bosque
Other men of the hose. He managed Castilla for three seasons, being relieved in the last one because the white team descended to Second B (1987-1990). He led the first team from 1999 to 2003 replacing Toshack, but had previous steps in the 1993-94 campaign (12 games) and 1995-96 (one game): he won two Leagues, two Champions League, one Intercontinental, one European Super Cup ( the first in the winners of the white team) and another from Spain.
Mariano Garcia Remón
Curiously, he relieved Del Bosque at Castilla and also spent three seasons (1990-93) and did the same with Camacho in 2004: he was the Murcian coach's assistant, and when he decided to resign, he took over the first team: He led the Whites in 19 games, but his results were not adequate: after falling in the last game of 2004 against Sevilla, he was dismissed. He was replaced by Brazilian coach Wanderley Luxemburg.
Juan Ramón López Caro
He was managing Castilla when he replaced Luxembourg in 2005. He had been with the Whites since 2001. In a horrific Whites campaign, the Spanish coach He took the team when it was in fifth position and took it to the league runner-up. However, Florentino's departure and the call for elections hampered his continuity in office. When Ramón Calderón won the elections, he was relieved by Fabio Capello, who was thus completing his second campaign (and his second white period).
Rafael Benitez
Rafa Benitez andwas Vicente del Bosque's assistant in the white branch (1993-95) when the Salamanca coach had to take over the first team. After leaving to carve out a future for himself on the bench, he was signed as a replacement for Italian Carlo Ancelotti in 2015: he spent 24 games directing Madrid. A strong defeat against Barcelona by 0-4 at the Bernabéu was his highlight. Although he endured a series of more games, he was dismissed in January 2016 after drawing 2-2 with Valencia at Mestalla.
Zinedine Zidane
He replaced Benítez and his career has been brutal since then: is the second white coach with the highest number of titles won: 11, three behind Miguel Muñoz (he spent 14 years) He was at Real Madrid Castilla from 2014 until he accepted the position of head coach in January 2016, his best season being when he took charge of the majors (2015-16). He left after winning his third Champions League in a row, but returned in March 2019. He has just won the League, the second in his record.
Julen lopetegui
He was a national coach when he was signed (with a strong controversy) days before Spain's debut in the 2018 World Cup. It was the relief of Zidane, who resigned five days after having won his third consecutive Champions League. He barely led 14 games to the first team (among all competitions): six wins and six losses. Like Benítez, a painful 5-1 loss to Barcelona was his sentence. He directed Castilla when the subsidiary was playing in Segunda B (2008-09 season).
Santiago Solari
As happened with Zidane and Benítez, Solari replaced Lopetegui. It was the coach of the subsidiary, where he had been three seasons before making the jump. He led 32 games to the first team (22 wins), but tAfter a tragic week with two defeats against Barcelona in the Cup and League and being thrashed by Ajax in the Champions League, he was dismissed. It gave him time to win a Club World Cup.