He Real Madrid He has made official the dismissal of his coach in the basketball team. Chus Matthew Leave the bench of the white team after three seasons and six titles and its substitute will be, in the absence of confirmation by the club, SERGIO SCARIOLOcurrent coach Spacethat will return 23 years later. This would be a historical change in one of the most demanding clubs of Europa and that the Madrid coach has been taken ahead, who still had a contract until 2026 and leaves without fulfilling that last year.
For his part, Scariolo, who directed Real Madrid from 1999 to 2002 precisely with Chus Matthew as second coach, will be announced soon as the new white team technician, confirming an arrival that had been cooking since last winter at the worst moment of the Madrid team in the season. The directive kept the Madrid, but it was sentenced to the final course of course and not win the Endesa League For the second consecutive year he has avoided his cessation.
Chus Matthew leaves a record at the height of very few (2 Leagues, 2 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Euroleague and 1 Copa del Rey) And he leaves the most laureate coach in the history of the club overcoming Ignacio Pinedo. Scariolo, in turn, announced on Wednesday his last list as coach of Space For him Eurobasket 2025.
The national team will face Italy, Greece, Bosnia, Georgia and Cyprus In the group stage of a tournament that will be held from August 27 to September 14 and will do so with the Italian on the bench. Scariolo will march after the tournament to lead Real Madrid and leave the Spanish team after 15 years. His substitute could also be the former white team coach Pablo Lasowhich in turn would have to leave Baskonia.
The next few weeks are key to Chus Matthew if you want to continue training the following season. His last game, since his departure is official, was last Wednesday in the Fonteta in front of the Valencia Basketin which Real Madrid won by fast track with a 3-0 in the final series its thirty-eighth league title.
The next arrival of Scariolo will be part of the structural change throughout the section that will be complemented with the march of Juan Carlos Sánchez After 15 years at the head of it. The leader, in the absence of official confirmation, will leave a successor who is not Sergio Rodríguezsince the former player and legend of Real Madrid arrives as a sports director instead of Alberto Herreros. He does just a year after retiring from basketball. He It is will be accompanied by Martyn Pocius y Felipe Reyes In the dome.
Real Madrid statement on Chus Mateo
«Real Madrid CF and Chus Mateo have agreed to end their stage as coach of Real Madrid of Basketball.
Real Madrid thanks Chus Mateo for his work and his commitment during the three seasons in which he has directed our team, in which he has won 6 titles: 1 European Cup, 2 Leagues, 1 King Cup and 2 Super Cups of Spain. In addition, he was chosen as the best coach of the Euroleague year 2023-2024.
Chus Mateo has always represented the values of our club in an exemplary way. Real Madrid wishes him as best as his family in this new stage of his life ».
