{"id":730501,"date":"2026-06-11T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730501\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:59:09","slug":"real-madrid-confirm-jose-mourinhos-return-as-manager-after-13-years-away-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730501\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid confirm Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s return as manager after 13 years away | Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s blockbuster return as Real Madrid<\/a> manager has been confirmed. The 63-year-old, who was in the dugout at the Bernab\u00e9u from 2010 until 2013, joins the 15-times European champions from Benfica on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n

Mourinho\u2019s appointment comes after a torrid season at Real Madrid, with Xabi Alonso sacked in January<\/a> amid player unrest. \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa came in as interim head coach, but failed to turn around the campaign as Real exited the Champions League to Bayern Munich at the quarter-final stage and Barcelona cantered to the La Liga title. Disharmony within the squad also continued, with Fede Valverde taken to hospital<\/a> to have stitches after a confrontation with his teammate Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni.<\/p>\n

Florentino P\u00e9rez, who was re-elected as president<\/a> last Sunday, made Mourinho his target and will hope the Portuguese can restore order to the dressing room and success on the pitch. Mourinho won La Liga in the 2011-12 season, along with the Copa del Rey in 2010-2011. He achieved phenomenal feats in the early part of his managerial career, winning the Champions League with Porto and Inter and three Premier League titles across two spells at Chelsea.<\/p>\n

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Mourinho returned to Benfica, where he had started his managerial career, last September and guided them to an unbeaten league season, but that was enough only for third place. He has also had recent spells in charge of Fenerbahce in Turkey and Roma in Italy. Madrid said he would officially start on 13 July, when pre-season training begins.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday Benfica said they would receive \u20ac15m (\u00a313m) in compensation for Mourinho from Madrid and that an agreement had been reached for Marco Silva to take over on a two-year deal with an option to extend for a season. Silva left Fulham<\/a> last week after five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s blockbuster return as Real Madrid manager has been confirmed. The 63-year-old, who was in the dugout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-730501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}