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On Sunday, at an extraordinary meeting of the Madrid club management, it was decided to dismiss the head coach of the team, Vanderlei Luxemburgo, who had been in charge of the team for eleven months.
The 53-year-old specialist from Brazil's dismissal was hastened by Real's unsuccessful performance in Saturday's Spanish league match against Getafe. Although the Madrid team won the game 1-0, it did not reflect the fluent play of the "royal" club - after the match, the fans even booed their favorite team at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium.
V. Luxemburgo became the coach of Real at the end of last year, replacing Mariano Garcia Remon. At that time, the team was in fifth place in the standings, and although the coach later managed to rally the team to fight for the championship title and even win against their main rival Barcelona, the capital's team still finished in second place in the Spanish league.
Although during the midseason break the Madrid club spent about 90 million euros on new player acquisitions - Spaniard Sergio Ramos, Uruguayans Pablo Garcia and Carlos Diego, and Brazilians Julio Baptista and Robinho were added to the team, the season started with losses and the team was plagued by injuries. Recently, Real was crushed by their fiercest rivals Barcelona on their home ground, and now they find themselves in fourth place, trailing the leaders by six points.
According to the club's TV channel, the interim coach to take over the strategist's duties will be the assistant coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro. Who will become the head coach in the long run is still unclear, but recently it was speculated that the main candidates are currently Juventus head coach Fabio Capello, former Celta and Porto strategist Victor Fernandez, Javier Irureta who spent seven seasons at Deportivo, even Rafael Benitez working at Liverpool, or the England national team coach Sven Goran Eriksson.
