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Real president explains reasons behind coach getting the boot
Madrid, May 25: Real Madrid president Florentino Perez tells why he sacked coach Carlos Queiroz.
Madrid, May 25: Real Madrid president Florentino Perez tells why he sacked coach Carlos Queiroz.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez admitted on Monday (May 24) that hiring Carlos Queiroz 12 months ago was a mistake.
Speaking after appointing former player Jose Antonio Camacho to replace the sacked Queiroz, Perez said a new style of leadership was needed to halt the club's decline which culminated in them losing their last five league games.
"We believe that it has not been a good season and that hurts us deeply," Perez told a news conference as he announced the club's decision to sack Queiroz.
"We think that the answer to our anger over what has happened should be serious hard work. We are a reference point for world football and we can't permit a season like this to occur.
"It has been very difficult to understand what has happened over the past two months, but it is clear the team lacked the discipline and order to turn the situation around.
"I have to admit we made a mistake in appointing Carlos Queiroz. We are now beginning a new era at the club with the appointment of Jose Antonio Camacho."
Former Spain coach Camacho, who was an uncompromising defender during his 15 seasons at Real, comes to the club with a reputation as an old-style disciplinarian.
He is the antithesis of the cosmopolitan, media-friendly Queiroz who has taken the blame for the club's first trophyless season in five years.
Real were beaten by Monaco in the Champions League quarter-final and slumped to fourth in the league.
"We believe that his status as a former player and a coach with great authority and the moral right to exercise that authority makes him the ideal choice," said Perez. "The decision to sign him was unanimous.
"We may have undergone a change in the type of coach that the club needs at the moment, but changes are good things because teams need to be reinvigorated from time to time."
Perez also used the news conference to present new signing Walter Samuel, the first defender to be hired by the club since he took charge at the club four years ago.
But the Real president denied that the recruitment of the Argentine international was an admission that the club's failures had been a product of their previous policy of signing only high-profile attacking players.
"Our policy remains the same," he said. "We have been working on signing this defender for some time. Our policy is simply to sign the best players in the world in every position."
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"It has been very difficult to understand what has happened over the past two months, but it is clear the team lacked the discipline and order to turn the situation around.
"I have to admit we made a mistake in appointing Carlos Queiroz. We are now beginning a new era at the club with the appointment of Jose Antonio Camacho."
Former Spain coach Camacho, who was an uncompromising defender during his 15 seasons at Real, comes to the club with a reputation as an old-style disciplinarian.
He is the antithesis of the cosmopolitan, media-friendly Queiroz who has taken the blame for the club's first trophyless season in five years.
Real were beaten by Monaco in the Champions League quarter-final and slumped to fourth in the league.
"We believe that his status as a former player and a coach with great authority and the moral right to exercise that authority makes him the ideal choice," said Perez. "The decision to sign him was unanimous.
"We may have undergone a change in the type of coach that the club needs at the moment, but changes are good things because teams need to be reinvigorated from time to time."
Perez also used the news conference to present new signing Walter Samuel, the first defender to be hired by the club since he took charge at the club four years ago.
But the Real president denied that the recruitment of the Argentine international was an admission that the club's failures had been a product of their previous policy of signing only high-profile attacking players.
"Our policy remains the same," he said. "We have been working on signing this defender for some time. Our policy is simply to sign the best players in the world in every position."
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