Thursday, July 3, 2025, 19:35
Sergio Scariolo will return to Real Madrid from Basketball. The current Spanish coach will return to Chamartín at the end of the Eurobasket that will be played between August 27 and September 14 in Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia to replace his friend Chus Chus Mateo on the bench, whose departure from the club was formalized this Thursday, minutes before the entity that presides over Florentino Pérez confirmed the return of Scariolo.
The coach born in Brescia is chosen to take the reins of Real Madrid, a team he already directed between 1999 and 2002 and with whom he won a league. A movement that had already been barrupling for a long time and that was practically confirmed on Wednesday when Scariolo announced that this year’s Eurobasket would be his last tournament with Spain.
Scariolo will return to Real Madrid endorsed precisely because London 2012) and two bronze (Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Eurobasket 2017).
NBA champion also as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors in the 2018-19 season, Scariolo, who won two ACB leagues-one of them with Real Madrid (1999-2000) and another with the Unicaja-, as well as an Italian league with the Scavolini, two cups of the king in Spain-one with the ceramic tau and another with Unicaja- and a Eurocup The Virtus of Bologna will lead Real Madrid during the next three seasons, until June 30, 2028.
His landing occurs after Real Madrid confirmed the march of Chus Mateo, which had another year left, but who ended up lying the lazy whites of the whites in the Euroleague, which led the Chamartín club to choose to pass pages in its basketball section despite the recent conquest of the Endesa League after defeating Valencia Basket in the final.
Chus Mateo, who came to the position in 2022 after the dismissal of Pablo Laso, of whom he was assistant, after the heart attack suffered by the Vitorian coach in early June of that year, leaves the post of Real Madrid coach with six titles behind him: a Euroleague, two leagues, a cup of king and two supercopas of Spain. In addition, he was chosen as the best coach of the Euroleague year 2023-2024.
However, in the decision of his departure he has significantly weighed the disappointing performance of Real Madrid in the latest edition of the Euroleague, a tournament in which the whites reached the month of December against the ropes and, although they starred in a fantastic last stretch of the regular season that allowed them to reach the ‘playoff’, after passing through the ‘play-in’, they stayed out of the ‘Final Four’ for the first time in four years. rooms in front of Olympiacos.
Defeated in the final of the Spanish Super Cup by Unicaja, which was also his executioner in the final of the Copa del Rey, Real Madrid saved the course by imposing himself with enormous authority in the Endesa League, which has not been an obstacle for the dismissal of Chus Matthew as part of the revolution that the basketball section is living.
Revolution
The return of Sergio Rodríguez, who will put himself at the head of the sports plot a year after his retirement from the courts was produced, was the first stone within a process that has lived a new step this Thursday with the announcement of the march of Chus Matthew, which will replace Sergio Scariolo. The Italian will have Sergio Rodríguez as a new boss, who also returns to Real Madrid, where appropriate as a sports director, a year after his retirement from the slopes.
Apart from the movement in the offices and on the bench, Real Madrid will also live a summer agitated in the preparation of the template, from which Dzanan Muse, Serge Ibaka, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Hugo González and Eli John Ndiaye will come out, and the one that the Theo Malledon and David Kramer will arrive. The target of the whites is also signing another escort that suppla
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