Mourinho-Xabi Alonso, a reunion in the battle for the Europa League final

Jose Mourinho and Xabi Alonso They will meet again next month to battle for the final european league what they also strive for Seville and Juventus. After three seasons spent at Real Madrid, the Portuguese coach and the Gipuzkoan will meet in the semi-finals of the Europa League at the head of the club Rome and Bayer Leverkusen, respectively.

Mourinho will play in the European semi-finals again, determined to raise the status of the group Giallorossi on the Old Continent. Last season, precisely against Feyenoord, Mourinho’s Roma won conference league, the first international title for the transalpine club. This campaign, the Portuguese has the Roman team in fourth position in Series TOwhich gives access to League from the championand the opportunity to qualify for the new continental final.

In the case of Xabi Alonso, after spending time at Real Sociedad’s affiliate, where he was promoted to the second division, he transformed a downsized Leverkusen into one of the teams of the moment in Germany in his first big adventure as a coach. Xabi Alonso arrived at Chamartín in the 2009-2010 season from Liverpool. At the end of the campaign without titles and in the shadow of Guardiola’s Barcelona, ​​the white president chose Mourinho, a three-time champion in that series with Milan’s Inter, as the new coach of Madrid.

In the three seasons that the Setúbal coach was with the Merengue team, Xabi Alonso was a key player in midfield, maintaining balance in a dizzying 4-2-3-1 formation led by Di María, Özil, Cristiano and Benzema. Together, they won the League and the Cup and restored Real Madrid’s competitiveness in Europe, where the Whites came to play with them in three consecutive semi-finals, against Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.