The doors of the Real Madrid bench can be opened to Zaragoza Alvaro Arbeloa. The ex-footballer, born in Salamanca 38 years ago, although raised and raised from a very young age, since he was 4 years old, in Zaragoza and in the Real Zaragoza Sports City, is the favorite of Real Madrid to accompany Carlo, as assistant coach Ancelotti on the Italian’s return to the White House.
Arbeloa retired three seasons ago and embarked on a dual personal and professional career. On the one hand, he increased his involvement in various family-run business projects related to new technologies, marketing, startups or digital communication, rooted in the Miogroup company run by his brother Yago. On the other hand, he opened a new path in football, with a vocation to become a coach, and last summer he agreed to direct the Infantil A of Real Madrid with whom he has been proclaimed champion of his category this season. Well considered within the white club, where he arrived as a footballer at the age of 19 after training at Real Zaragoza, Álvaro Arbeloa would thus fulfill the functions of Ancelotti’s main assistant, a role that other men of the house developed in his previous stage, like Fernando Hierro or Zinedine Zidane.
Champion of the European Cup with Real Madrid, World and European Champion with the Spanish national team, one of the most complete and intelligent defensive footballers of his generation; Arbeloa would have the endorsement of Ancelotti, who was his coach, and would complete the coaching staff together with the physical trainer Antonio Pintus within the revolution undertaken at the club these days by Florentino Pérez after the goodbye of Zinedine Zidane.
Arbeloa started in soccer at Colegio El Salvador, before moving to Real Zaragoza. From there, he went to Madrid, to its subsidiary teams, before making his debut in the First Division at Deportivo de La Coruña. It would be in Liverpool where he would explode as a footballer of international stature during the two and a half seasons that he was on the banks of the Mersey under the command of Rafa Benítez. From there, he jumped to Real Madrid, where in his 7 seasons he would become one of the idols of the stands. He ended his career with a fleeting experience at West Ham in England. He has in his record a World Cup and two European Cups at the national level. With Madrid, he won the League, the Cup and two Champions. In 2010, he was awarded the Aragón Medal of Sporting Merit. A year later, he received the Cesaraugusta Trophy awarded by the Zaragoza City Council, city in which she married in the summer of 2009 with Carlota Ruiz, his lifelong girlfriend from Zaragoza.
Now, Arbeloa’s coaching career can pick up speed alongside one of his inspirers. A few weeks ago, the Zaragoza native declared on Real Madrid Television: “I think Carlo’s teams are very well organized, but then he always likes offensive and colorful football. In addition, one of the positive things about his arrival is that he knows Real Madrid perfectly, how it works, everything that surrounds the club and the demands that this team has and that will serve him a lot in this second stage. ” ·“He is a coach who is tactically very intelligent and who is capable of having his teams well organized defensively. In that he is quite Italian, but then I think he takes licenses to practice a very offensive football and let the footballer have freedom in attack, let the talent flow. You know very well to maintain that balance. And obviously, of course, the management of the group because he is a master at that. “
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