{"id":81516,"date":"2026-01-12T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81516"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:00:42","slug":"breaking-xabi-alonso-leaves-real-madrid-with-immediate-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/12\/breaking-xabi-alonso-leaves-real-madrid-with-immediate-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Xabi Alonso Leaves Real Madrid With Immediate Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid have announced the immediate departure of head coach Xabi Alonso, ending his brief stint at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u.<br \/>\nThe club confirmed on Monday that the decision was reached by mutual agreement after internal discussions. Alonso exits just months into the job amid inconsistent results and growing pressure following recent setbacks in key competitions.<br \/>\nIn a statement, Real Madrid thanked Alonso for his professionalism and service, noting his enduring legacy as a club legend.<br \/>\nThe club is expected to name an interim coach shortly while working on a permanent replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Real Madrid have announced the immediate departure of head coach Xabi Alonso, ending his brief stint at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. The club confirmed on Monday that the decision was reached by mutual agreement after internal discussions. Alonso exits just months into the job amid inconsistent results and growing pressure following recent setbacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81518,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81516\/revisions\/81518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}