{"id":48240,"date":"2025-05-10T18:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48240"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T15:57:18","slug":"xabi-alonso-confirms-hes-leaving-bayer-leverkusen-ahead-of-expected-move-to-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/xabi-alonso-confirms-hes-leaving-bayer-leverkusen-ahead-of-expected-move-to-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Xabi Alonso Confirms He\u2019s Leaving Bayer Leverkusen Ahead of Expected Move to Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso is leaving the German club after this season, ahead of an expected move to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the right moment to announce it,\u201d the Spanish coach said Friday, ahead of what will be his final home game on Sunday. \u201cClarity is good for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old Alonso ended weeks of speculation by informing his players before Friday\u2019s training session that he was leaving, one year before his contract with the club expires in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, a former Madrid player, led Leverkusen to an unprecedented league and cup double last season after taking over the team when it was in the Bundesliga\u2019s relegation zone in October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we can be happy, we can proud of what we have achieved during this time,\u201d Alonso said.<\/p>\n<p>His Leverkusen team remains the only one to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso is leaving the German club after this season, ahead of an expected move to Real Madrid. \u201cThis is the right moment to announce it,\u201d the Spanish coach said Friday, ahead of what will be his final home game on Sunday. \u201cClarity is good for everyone.\u201d The 43-year-old Alonso ended weeks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48242,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48240\/revisions\/48242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}