Former Real Madrid striker Raul has taken on his first role in senior club management after being appointed as boss of Spanish second division side Real Oviedo.<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old, who coached Real Madrid’s reserves from 2019 to 2025, has signed a contract until June 2028.<\/p>\n
Raul replaces Julian Calero, who was sacked by Oviedo on Monday with the side ninth in Spain’s second division.<\/p>\n
“My way of understanding football is with respecting the talent [in the squad] but asking for unconditional effort,” said Raul in a video on Oviedo’s social media.<\/p>\n
“The team has to fight from the first minute to the last for victory so the fans are proud of them.”<\/p>\n
Raul enjoyed an illustrious playing career, helping Real Madrid win the Champions League three times and six La Liga titles.<\/p>\n
He scored 323 goals in 741 games for the Bernabeu side before going on to play for Germany’s Schalke, Al Sadd in Qatar, and American club New York Cosmos.<\/p>\n
On the international front, Raul managed 44 goals in 102 games for Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Real Madrid striker Raul has taken on his first role in senior club management after being appointed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-679720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}