
ESPN - 8 hours 15 min ago
New Real Madrid coach lvaro Arbeloa took responsibility for the team's "painful" 3-2 Copa del Rey defeat to second-tier Albacete on Wednesday, defending his decision to rest a number of senior players.

The Guardian - 8 hours 30 min ago
Albacete 3-2 Real Madrid Hosts, 17th in the second tier, pull off huge upset For 20 minutes of lvaro Arbeloa's debut as manager of Real Madrid, the fog came down and no one could see any football. For the other 70, they couldn't either. Not from his team, at least. From Albacete Balompi , 17th in the second division, they witnessed something magical. An outrageous goal scored with single second to go was the perfect end to the greatest story they ever told, history made. When the final whistle...

ABC News - 8 hours 30 min ago
Álvaro Arbeloa got off to a dismal start as the new coach of Real Madrid, seeing his team lose to second-division club Albacete 3-2 and drop out of the Copa del Rey in the round of 16...

CBS Sports - 8 hours 59 min ago
Los Blancos suffered one of their most embarrassing defeats in recent years...

Forbes - 9 hours 12 min ago
New Real Madrid manager Alvaro Arbeloa called his nightmare start and team's thrilling 3-2 KO from the Copa del Rey last 16 by Second Division Albacete a 'tragedy'...

Yard Barker - 9 hours 34 min ago
Real Madrid faced off against Albacete in the Copa del Rey earlier tonight as they hoped to earn a good result on the road. Los Blancos made a decent start to the game but conceded the opening goal in the 42nd minute when Javi Villar found the back of the net.

ESPN - 9 hours 35 min ago
lvaro Arbeloa got off to a dismal start as the new coach of Real Madrid, seeing his team lose to second-division club Albacete 3-2 and drop out of the Copa del Rey in the round of 16 on Wednesday.

Forbes - 9 hours 58 min ago
Real Madrid head coach Alvaro Arbeloa suffered a nightmare start to life in his new job after the La Liga giants were knocked out of the Copa del Rey last 16 by Albacete.

Forbes - 13 hours 45 min ago
Real Madrid legend Toni Kroos used his Einfach mal Luppen podcast to say that FC Barcelona won't win "any international title" this season, meaning the Champions League...

ESPN - 14 hours 51 min ago
Why have three of the biggest soccer teams in the world fired their managers in the span of just 12 days? To clubs like Man United or Real Madrid, it's not about results, but how they fit.

The Guardian - 16 hours 3 min ago
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Having started this season at Real Madrid with 13 wins from his first 14 games, Xabi Alonso could be forgiven for thinking he was on to a good thing in his new role of Kindergarten Cop, tasked with instilling discipline among the spoilt and unruly brats in his care. While this excellent run was punctuated by a tonking at the hands of Atl tico and a diva strop thrown by Vin cius J nior, Alonso seemed to have pulled off the unthinkable by introducing...

BBC - 16 hours 51 min ago
Many Real Madrid fans are in shock at Alvaro Arbeloa's appointment as manager - is it a hasty move or a shrewd decision?...

Yard Barker - 16 hours 56 min ago
Jude Bellingham has fired back at reports linking him to dressing-room tensions with Xabi Alonso, calling out so-called insiders and media figures in a furious message on his JB5 app following the coach's Real Madrid departure.

Yard Barker - 17 hours 26 min ago
The Real Madrid guard of honour snub that stunned the footballing world this week was more than a simple breach of tradition it was a public display of power, and it begs the question of whether players are being given way more authority than they should.

The Guardian - 17 hours 55 min ago
The world of soccer throws up no shortage of questions. In today's column, we endeavor to answer three of them As damaging as Sunday's Spanish Super Cup defeat to Barcelona was for Xabi Alonso's credibility as Real Madrid manager, the scenes after the game ultimately finished him off. The sight of Kylian Mbapp overriding Alonso, insisting his teammates leave the pitch as the manager requested in vain that they give Bar a a guard of honour, summed up an untenable situation. Continue reading...

Forbes - 19 hours 18 min ago
FC Barcelona coach Hansi Flick has addressed Real Madrid's firing of Xabi Alonso in a press conference ahead of Thursday's Copa del Rey last 16 tie at Racing Santander.

ESPN - 19 hours 19 min ago
Alonso returned to Madrid as a club legend and one of the most sought-after coaches around. What happened?...

Forbes - 22 hours 57 min ago
Fired former Real Madrid boss Xabi Alonso is prohibited from coaching in Spain but he already has three elite potential suitors for the future.

Forbes - 23 hours 59 min ago
New Real Madrid head coach Alvaro Arbeloa will make a number of changes to the starting XI for his first game in charge, which is a Copa del Rey last 16 trip to Albacete.