Real Madrid B, Real Valladolid, Osasuna, Extremadura, Tenerife, Valencia, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Naples, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Dalian Yifang and Everton. Many clubs for the experienced Rafa Benitez, and there were some notable trophies along the way, mainly the Champions league one with Liverpool, but also FA Cup and UEFA Super Cup. He was not so successful with other clubs and never won any top football trophy since 2014, even thou he coached Real Madrid. Whatever you do, just don’t oppose Rafa BenitezIn his latest interview, the Spaniard admitted that it’s almost impossible” for him to return to management, but still named one big Spanish club he would like to coach. “I know how to analyze and I look a lot more. I look to see if you’re going to have support, if there’s money… But it’s not easy to find the right project. I won’t train Liverpool because Klopp is there and he does it well. And in the big teams I won’t be able to go because I’ve already been in rival teams. The offers I’ve had don’t motivate me. There are teams that would never sign me for that I have been in the rival. I could not go to Barcelona… Atletico would be something else”, he explained in ‘El Larguero’.”Rafa Benitez’ man-management skill is awful. We were happy to see him go”- John Mikel Obi pic.twitter.com/Li9GV3TLvB— 🐬 @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) February 16, 2023 Of all the clubs he coached over his long career, Real Madrid was the crown. But he was ‘the king’ for a very short period of time and soon dismissed, with Zinedine Zidane taking over. Rafa has his own explanation.”In my time at Real Madrid they didn’t let us win. We were first in the Champions League. In the Champions League that Madrid wins, we did our job. In the Cup they eliminated us due to an administrative error with Cheryshev. Then it seemed that it was my fault because I was no longer there. The team was physically superior to the rivals. When I left, I was two points from Barcelona with one game less. Two months later they were 12 points behind Barca” said Benitez. Now you realized? Rafa admits he couldn’t succeed at Everton due to Liverpool tiesOne of the reasons for his dismissal after only seven months in charge (he signed a three year deal) was the unrest in the dressing room and the 4-0 thrashing in El Classico at home also didn’t help out. And you can bet that former Real coach has an explanation for that either. “When we arrived in Madrid, Ancelotti had just left, he had a very good relationship with the players, and it seemed that we arrived with a whip. There was an unfavorable environment: the departure of Casillas, Keylor Navas, the arrest of Benzema… There are complicated situations. And when everything gets complicated, who pays? Me. Cristiano, knowing what he was like, you had to guide him The problem is when you have to guide seven, some of them don’t play, they’re not happy. And they go to the media to filter it. The one on the bench doubts and the one on the stands is a problem. you take to the media, it’s something else” explained Benitez.Old Super Eagle reveals how Mourinho made Salah cry in the Chelsea dressing roomThere was also a story how Rafa tried to influence Luka Modrić and Cristian Ronaldo, regarding their free kicks, but the Spaniard claims it’s a false story. “The only comment I made to Cristiano Ronaldo, as I knew him from Manchester United, is that we analyze how he was shooting free kicks. We looked at the trajectory, see if we can make any adjustments, saw we couldn’t and forgot about it. It’s my only conversation with him. Everything else is a lie. When he takes free kicks, when I leave, his stats are worse. I was surprised that journalists I knew would say that without talking to me” said Benitez. ##NAJAVA_MECA_7031400##
