The last coach who won two leagues in a row with Madrid. It was the Dutchman Leo Beenhakker, who died three weeks ago, who raised three consecutive championships, from 1987 to 1989. Since then, to the Bernabéu have passed to 24 different technicians, several of them in two stages, and none has linked two titles. In the same period, in Barça six trainers have achieved: Johan Cruyff, Louis Van Gaal, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique and Ernesto Valverde.
Carlo Ancelotti is one of those who returned to Madrid after a first era and still aspires to break this long white streak of 36 seasons of leagues addressed Although around the Italian an indisimulable climate of the end of cycle and farewell has been installed. Above all, after a week in which their. “I will talk about my future on the 25th [tras la última jornada de Liga]”He tried to settle before receiving Celta (14.00, Movistar).” I know perfectly what I have to do, what I am going to do and what I do: do not talk about my future, “he insisted serious and without concessions in a very measured speech after a few days with too much movement.
In the club, the guideline has been imposed to exhaust the options in the championship, with the pending visit to Montjuïc on Sunday, May 11, and then everything else, so Carletto still has the bullet of mathematics to sign up for the same thing – it would be seen if the last one – in the history of the club. Whatever happens with his contract signed until June 2026, these four courses from his return are already the most extensive stage of a coach in Chamartín from Miguel Muñoz (1960-74), and his record is the broadest in the entity (15); However, he has not been able to chain two leagues so far.
Since Beenhakker left 36 years ago from La Castellana, 31 changes have occurred on the white bench. The movements have been reduced in recent times, although no one has managed to hook two consecutive championships. The list of occupants at this time covers Alfredo Di Stéfano to Mariano García Remón. From front to back, they have passed: Ancelotti (two stages), Zinedine Zidane (two), Santiago Solari, Julen Lopetegui, Rafa Benítez, José Mourinho, Manuel Pellegrini, Juande Ramos, Bernd Schuster, Fabio Capello (Dos), Juan Ramón López Caro, Vanderle Luxemburg, García Remón, José Antonio Camacho (two) Queiroz, Vicente del Bosque (two), John Toshack (two), Guus Hiddink, Jupp Heynckes, Arsenio Iglesias, Jorge Valdano, Benito Floro, Radomir Antic and Di Stéfano. Some, even, left, or threw it, after winning a league, like his own, Capello and the forest.
“It will be a fantastic farewell”
At the same time that he has multiplied his reign in Europe, the data on the coaches and the leagues adds another derived to the progressive loss of weight of Madrid in the championship. He does not repeat title since 2006-07 and 07-08 (Barça has done it three times since then), when he had previously succeeded in seven moments. The first of these two chained triumphs was with Capello, fired the next day, and the second with Schuster, which did not endure the following campaign much more. The best Barça era and the obsession with the Champions League have diverting the shot of the whites in the domestic tournament. The club has also lit the justification of an arbitral conspiracy in the stands.
Despite the feeling of the end of the season from the European goodbye, Madrid and Ancelotti try to squeeze the league in a precariousness situation. In addition to the last ones, who joined Camavinga, Militão and Carvajal, it has three warnings: Tchouameni, Ceballos and Lucas Vázquez. A yellow to French would leave Asencio as the only central – pure and postpage – in Montjuïc. “The season has not been spectacular, but in five games everything can happen,” said the Italian, who dodged as he could questions about his future.
“Anything that is will be a fantastic farewell. I will never have a fight with the club the last day, which can be on the 25th [de mayo] of 2025, of 2026 or 2030, ”he said. At the moment, what is left is to exhaust the mathematics route to insist for a second consecutive league, something that has not achieved any coach in Madrid for 36 years.
