Zinedine Zidane received recently The Best award as a top manager in 2017 for winning the Champions League and La Liga. Real Madrid can be lucky for having such a good coach right now. However, there were some others that weren’t successful at all. Now we want to look back and introduce some blows in the history of the club.
Arsenio Iglesias
Jorge Valdano was the coach of Real Madrid and he had success in the past. Actually, Valdano has been linked with the club several times. However, the results weren’t good in 1995 and the club axed him. Arsenio Iglesias took over. He was well known for training Deportivo de la Coruña, -the ‘Súper Dépor- a team that almost win La Liga title but Djukic missed a penalty in the last game of the season. The Galician coach was a total failure and he had to leave the club right after his appointment.
José Antonio Camacho
He is one of the most experienced Spanish coaches and besides he is a great Real Madrid fan. His career as a player was stunning with Los Blancos but as a coach was terrible. He was first appointed manager in 1998, but he resigned before starting the season. In 2004 he arrived again to Santiago Bernabéu and left the club three games after, unable to handle the dressing room with the Galácticos.
Carlos Queiroz
He had the difficult task of replacing Vicente del Bosque at Real Madrid in 2003/04 after winning two Champions League trophies and La Liga title. He had the best team ever available with all the Galácticos. The season went smoothly, but he lost the Copa del Rey final against Zaragoza. It was the beginning of the end. Monaco kicked them off from Europe and they lost La Liga title. He left the club at the end of a terrible season, losing the last 5 games, something new in Real Madrid history.
Vanderlei Luxemburgo
The Galácticos formed a very difficult group. Vanderlei Luxemburgo arrived in December 2004 to Madrid. The team was fifth in La Liga, 13 points behind FC Barcelona. His first season was decent, finishing in the second position in La Liga. However, in the next one the team didn’t work and he was fired in December 2005. We will never forget his formation with a ‘Magic Square’ in the midfield or the use of walkie-talkies to communicate with his assistants.
Juan Ramón López Caro
When Luxemburgo was fired, Real Madrid trusted López Caro, who was training Castilla with success. However, he didn’t have the same luck in the first team and he was unable to win a single trophy. At the end of the season, the club decided to sack him and Fabio Capello took over.
Rafa Benítez
In 2015, Florentino Pérez unveiled Rafa Benítez as new coach for the next two seasons. He had a great career, working for Valencia, Liverpool, Inter, Chelsea or Napoli with success. However Real Madrid is different. The players didn’t understand his way of seeing football and they got fed up of him soon. In January, Florentino sacked him after drawing against Valencia. Before, he lost 0-4 El Clásico against FC Barcelona in one of the worst performances ever.