Real Madrid announces Carlo Ancelotti as new coach for next season

Loyalty: Del Bosque, Valdano, Mourinho, Zidane and Carletto

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After Zinedine Zidane's departure, Florentino Pérez has not taken long to find his replacement.

Apart from ability and experience, which he has, the president has prioritised loyalty.

It must not be a good feeling to be left out of the best team in the world, especially when you have a legion of supporters boosting your ego to infinity.

In the case of Del Bosque, a well-deserved ego, but forgetting that Real Madrid is above anyone else. Players, coaches, or presidents will always be below the institution.

An institution that in recent years has been fortunate to have one of the best administrators in the world. Knowing that he will never be above the club.

A lifetime with the club, an admirable CV, but Vicente Del Bosque will not return to the club that formed him as a player and provided him with a magnificent career in football.

Florentino Pérez

Jorge Valdano came to Spanish football through Alavés. He moved to Zaragoza and from there to Real Madrid. He spent four seasons in which he gave a good performance. His career as a coach was very short, perhaps because business and politics brought him very important benefits. Despite taking a league title away from Real Madrid with Tenerife, he was recruited by Real Madrid as a coach. And despite not proving much as a coach, he was hired as a kind of sports director. Several million euros a year for a good season. The Argentinian will not return to the club that gave him so much, much more than he gave the club.

There have been others coaches who have not been able to assimilate the fact that they have been dismissed, such as Manuel Pellegrini, Benítez and Julen Lopetegui. It will be difficult for them to return.

In the Florentino administration there have been others coaches with a lower profile, such as Carlos Queiroz, García Remón, Luxemburgo or López Caro. They did not last long.

José Antonio Camacho lasted less time. After three games he announced his resignation due to disagreements with the directive and the galacticos' whims.

But not a single criticism of the president. What is more, he has defended him on several occasions. Because he is the president of his Real Madrid.

Zinedine Zidane

The controversial Jose Mourinho, who has had disputes with other coaches, players and especially journalists, has never criticised the club and its president.

The pain you feel when you are told that you have to leave Real Madrid is very great and not everyone knows how to assimilate it and be self-critical.

Carlo Ancelotti left like a gentleman, not a single criticism. He can be considered a better or worse coach, there are his results. But he is a club man. When he is called by the club, he picks up the phone without complexes because he is a real gentleman.

When the decision is taken to sack a coach, it can be right or wrong and the person in question must understand that. Because the president is just passing through. The club will always be there.

You can continue being a club man all your life even if you don't work for the institution.

This has not been understood by excellent coaches who are theoretically very well prepared technically and culturally. With an exquisite education. We all know who we are talking about.

Jose Mourinho

But others have understood it, others who are not so well prepared and who have been given this feeling in the club, which is none other than LOYALTY.

Loyalty to the club, to the best sporting institution in the world, which is envied all over the world for its values and professionalism.

It is not Florentino, nor Ramón Calderón, nor Mendoza, nor Lorenzo Sanz, nor even Don Santiago Bernabéu.

It is not neither Zidane, nor Di Stefano, nor Raúl, nor Hugo Sánchez, nor Cristiano Ronaldo, nor even Sergio Ramos...

LOYALTY to the club that allowed you to work and will always be there.

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