He Real Madrid has made official that SERGIO SCARIOLO It will be your coach next season. New afternoon full of ads in the basketball section. Right after communicating that Chus Matthew Leave the bench the white club has communicated the arrival of the Italian coach, current coach of Space. Will leave the selection after Eurobasket 2025 (August 27 to September 14) and will return 23 years later to put in charge of the Madrid team.
The arrival of Scariolo was an open secret, more if it fits after announcing his goodbye to the Spanish team after the tournament he will play in Limassol (Chipre) during the group stage and, if it happens, in Rigia (Leotonia) The qualifiers. The Italian will live a busy summer between the preparation of the Eurobasket (Spain is concentrated on July 28 and will play six friendly games) and the Real Madrid signing market, the main work of a Sergio Rodríguez which will take into account the opinion of your former coach.
Scariolo signs for three seasons and returns more than two decades after his first stage on the most demanding bench of Europa. Ahead has a demanding bar that leaves Chus Matthew. The Madrid coach leaves after winning six titles (2 Leagues, 2 Super Cups, 1 Euroleague and 1 Copa del Rey) and having taken the squad to its best version right in the final course of course. The Italian has before him to return to Real Madrid dominator of the old continent, the main mole of his predecessor in the last two campaigns.
The white team lost the European crown with its defeat in the 2024 Euroleague final against Panathinaikos and not only did it not recover this season, but it remained outside the Final Four of the Euroleague and had to go through the play in by classifying in seventh place. The ups and downs in the regular phase condemned Chus Mateo, who would later fall into rooms against Olympiacos. To the play off of the ACB He arrived sentenced and has not served to lift the Endesa League slaughter -in front Valencia Basket.
The Madrid directive sees in Scariolo that renowned and world prestige coach to take Real Madrid where he deserves a complicated panorama for the growing of the Greek teams and the champion Fenerbahcewhich will be even more reinforced from this signing market. The Italian will advise the It is In this plot to hit with arrivals unlike summer and winter.
Real Madrid statement on Scariolo
«Real Madrid CF communicates that Sergio Scariolo will be the coach of our basketball team during the next three seasons, until June 30, 2028.
Sergio Scariolo will lead Real Madrid after the participation of the Spanish basketball team in the Eurobasket in Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia.
Sergio Scariolo, one of the most prestigious coaches in world basketball, arrives at Real Madrid after a brilliant trajectory at the head of the Spanish team, where he has become the most laureate coach in his history, with a total of eight medals: 5 gold (World Cup 2019, Eurobasket 2009, Eurobasket 2011, Eurobasket 2015 and Eurobasket 2022), 1 silver Olympics of London 2012) and 2 bronze (Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Eurobasket 2017).
NBA champion as an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors in the 2018-19 season, counts in its European palmar at club level with 8 titles: 2 ACB leagues, one of them with Real Madrid (1999-2000) and another with Unicaja; 1 Italian League with Scavolini; 2 Cups of the King in Spain, one with the ceramic tau and another with Unicaja; and 1 Eurocup and 2 Supercopas of Italy with the virtus of Bologna ».
