Chus Matthew Continuity has been pulled on the bench of the Real Madrid of basketball. In the white club the titles are everything and that is why their suffering to correspond to the demands of both inside and by the Madrid fans have led him to a limit situation at the end of the season. The Madrid was obliged to conquer the Endesa Leagueand go if he has done it.
In its third campaign at the head of the first team, it has managed to take a fully renewed template at the beginning of the course at its best in the last month of competition. Such was the state of his own who have only given up a party in the play off And they have devastated Valencia Basket in the final for the title without waiting beyond the third of the series.
A forceful 3-0 that adds to the rest of the victories to compose an overwhelming figure of 39 wins and only 5 losses in the League. Some numbers that on any bench would be worth more than plenty to conserve in the position and in some cases to sign a life contract. This is not the case of Chus Mateo, which, like his predecessors, has a Damocles sword called Real Madrid, the most demanding club in the world.
If even one of the players, Mario Hezonjaexpresses that need to win all possible titles, how the directive dome is not going to do. “It is a title, but it cannot justify the shit that we have done all year,” he said in the locker room Movistar +. The excessive ambition of the Croatian, joyful joyful on the happiest day of the season, reflects that of the club itself, which today values the continuity of the 56 -year -old coach.
Chus makes deaf ears of all the noise from the outside that rumbles from within and focuses on maintaining the facet that has been characterizing from its first day, the currant and winner. Its premiere on the bench back in September 2022 was a title, the Spanish Super Cup. Since then he has raised five more (another supercop the following year, Euroleague 2023, Endesa 2024 and 2025 and Copa del Rey 2024).
Chus Mateo lives in an unknown
In fact, last Wednesday night he exceeded five trophies of Ignacio Pinedo And it was placed as the fourth most laureate coach in the history of the club in just three seasons. At the top, if they leave him, they wait for him Pablo Laso (22), Lolo Sainz (22) Y Pedro Ferrándiz. Chus Mateo has just put an end to his hardest season as a technician, one in which from the beginning he had to combine criticism for defeats with a group that was getting to know each other and with which he asked for patience.
The signings were adapted and the leaders plugged in and new followers were added. The result, an anthological league ending and the best Real Madrid of recent times, at least in the defensive aspect, the most demanded by Chus himself. All this while dragging and dragging the shadow of a SERGIO SCARIOLO who awaits his opportunity from the other side of the court, literally (he is a commentator of Movistar + in several matches of the white team).
What happens in the coming weeks is a true mystery, but in the midst of all uncertainty there is great certainty, and that is that Chus Matthew is delighted to be coach of Real Madrid and under no circumstances will he stop working if they allow him to fulfill that last year of his new contract signed last summer until 2026. His tears of happiness to conquer the title and his peace A wardrobe that is not easy … less if possible.
