{"id":980,"date":"2025-09-16T19:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:01:31","slug":"alonso-already-had-the-eye-of-a-coach-when-he-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/alonso-already-had-the-eye-of-a-coach-when-he-played\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alonso already had the eye of a coach when he played&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-23.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-23-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-23-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabio Coentrao, formerly of Real Madrid, among others, spoke about Xabi Alonso&#8217;s presence on the Real Madrid bench, saying he could already see him as a coach when he was still playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabio Coentrao was always in the shadows at Real Madrid. The Portuguese put in some decent performances, but some unprofessional images have stuck in the minds of the fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese spoke to &#8216;Marca&#8217; about the &#8216;Merengues&#8217;, his past there and what awaits him in the immediate future, starting with their coach: &#8220;Xabi Alonso is very good. I had the opportunity to play with him. You could already see that he had an eye for being a coach&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Real Madrid are always fighting for every title. They have a good team, a good coach. I hope everything goes well,&#8221; he said on the verge of their Champions League debut against Olympique Marseille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coentrao has fond memories of &#8220;the Champions Leagues with Real Madrid&#8221;. &#8220;Everything I experienced in Madrid is a fantastic memory,&#8221; said the former Portugal international, who spoke of one name in particular, Cristiano Ronaldo: &#8220;He is unique. Playing with the best in history is the best there is&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabio Coentrao, formerly of Real Madrid, among others, spoke about Xabi Alonso&#8217;s presence on the Real Madrid bench,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}