SERGIO SCARIOLO Go back to Real Madrid with the purpose of returning to the most laureate team in Europe to its historical status, which is none other than being the best of all. Lost the crown of the Euroleague In 2024, this 2025 did not recover, staying out of the Final Four And the white club dispensed with Chus Matthewventuring an important change on the bench.
Real Madrid signed a prestigious coach worldwide and also has a past in the entity. A scariolo who had just overcome the quarantine of age directed the white team (1999-2002) for three seasons, achieving the ACB League And he returns as a mythical technician having harvested in the last two decades numerous successes as Spanish basketball coach.
During that first stage at Real Madrid his right hand was Ángel González Jareño. The second coach of the white team at that time remembers her in this newspaper as “three very intense and very difficult years from the professional point of view because he is very demanding, methodical, he knows what he wants and demands much much and demands us from us at the same level.” «Sergio took us all to the limit. That time was very hard, which was not digital, all with VHS tapes. The work was strenuous, ”he says.
«We work together Chus Matthew and me. A very good job, but in which you had no life. If I had to define Sergio, what he did at that time, he could summarize it in a mixed idea: if any government president appointed him Minister of Labor would not have unemployment in Spain. He has the ability to generate work for everyone. He is so perfectionist and wants to reach so many fields that we went out in the photos and we were more of the coaching staff than players, ”he reviews.
“Now it's much better coach”
«Talking to Chus, he told me that once he left Madrid he has remained equal as a good coach and demanding, but not at that extreme that he took us in those years of Real Madrid. It is very fair because it is the first one that goes and rewards its people a lot. Value your work, in time of renewal, economically …, ”he confesses.
Ángel González also denies that Scariolo, already with 64 years, will recover that squeezing facet in this second at the head of the bench of the white team: «Another quality that Sergio has is that as everyone learns from the things that are happening to you. Many things have emerged that have been giving him a balance that has made him better coach. Now it is much better coach than what it was when we were in Real Madrid together ».
«I want to break a spear, deeply respecting the club's decisions, I've been there 18 years, imagine … but honestly Chus has done a magnificent work. The only thing that happens is that Real Madrid always wants something excellent, looks for the greatest return to all levels, sports, economic and also of media impact and is a very important step for the club. That does not mean that we recognize everything Chus Matthew has done in these years, ”says Ángel González, former partner of both technicians.
The renowned basketball trainer is clear that “right now Scariol Eurobasket that can combine both plots. “He will already have his work team and will have put his people to work,” he says.
Scariolo, capable of combining selection and club in summer
«You will have a clear list of what you want and although you are concentrated in the selection any call you can make. They are super focused. He has the ability to dedicate to the selection all the time he needs and find a while to change the chip and get in Real Madrid mode an hour and without losing effectiveness, ”he explains.
About the adaptation to the costume and players who even communicated their devotion to Chus Matthew as he did Walter Tavareswho described the Madrid as “one of the best people” he had met in his life, Ángel González has no doubts: “Chus has his style, he is a beautiful person, but has shown that he has managed to lead a costume. They are different leadership. Sergio will do it from another perspective, I don't know if so close, but very effective ».
«Real Madrid is going to play a good, intense and above all basketball, if Sergio has not changed much, in defense it will be a work dedicated to the destruction of the strengths of the opposing team. He does everything from there, much more evident the study of the rival. I have taken that job of scoutingIt is very important for him. Then in the offensive part he is a coach who has been in the time he has been in USA He has brought a system that has shared with us and is very powerful and advanced, ”he deciphes about how the white team could flow by the court.
«Do not contemplate it. I would love that I could tell me something, but I sincerely am not the best option. If he believes he could help him in something, I would help him, I already did it in the national team, but right now I am not in the professional part. There are many people who can contribute much more than me in the current basketball and knowledge of players. The day I call him I will call him to congratulate him, not to ask for a job, ”says Ángel González, who jokes:” As I am lost. “
The new life of Ángel González Jareño
At present, the former second coach of Real Madrid dedicates his life to the formation of young talents. Attends to the call of this newspaper after ending a campus working day in Tenerife. The Madrid joined the club project some time ago Basketball center male and also in female. “We are growing little by little and this year with our improvement method we have put two teams in the Spanish Championship,” says the former Sub-16 female spain coach.
