
{"id":439497,"date":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/real-madrid-make-shortlist-of-former-players-as-ancelotti-heirs\/"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T04:00:00","slug":"real-madrid-make-shortlist-of-former-players-as-ancelotti-heirs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/real-madrid-make-shortlist-of-former-players-as-ancelotti-heirs\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid make shortlist of former players as Ancelotti heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid are currently preparing a shortlist, which consists mainly of former players, who would potentially succeed Carlo Ancelotti after the Italian announced he will bi leading Brazil at Copa America in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The players in question are Zinedine Zidane, Xabi Alonso, Raul Gonzales and Alvaro Arbeloa.<\/p>\n<p>Zidane is naturally the primary target, having led the team to 2 La Ligas and 3 Champions Leagues already, but the Frenchman could be detained by a possible offer from the French national team.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is a candidate number 2 with the Spaniard impressing at Bayer Leverkusen. The Aspirins were in a relegation scramble when the 41-year-old took charge and finished in 6th by the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>As for Arbeloa and Raul, they both did well last season with Arbeloa winning the league at Under 18s and Raul nearly promoting Castilla to Spain&#8217;s second divison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid are currently preparing a shortlist, which consists mainly of former players, who would potentially succeed Carlo Ancelotti after the Italian announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17375],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[327],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"Los Blancos are in a tough spot after the Italian's expected departure next summer","video":null},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439497"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439497"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}