{"id":13297,"date":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/former-real-madrid-star-raul-to-coach-oviedo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","slug":"former-real-madrid-star-raul-to-coach-oviedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/former-real-madrid-star-raul-to-coach-oviedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Real Madrid star Raul to coach Oviedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"397\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Former-Real-Madrid-star-Raul-to-coach-Oviedo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Former Real Madrid star Raul to coach Oviedo\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Former-Real-Madrid-star-Raul-to-coach-Oviedo.jpg 397w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Raul-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Real Madrid striker Raul Gonzalez was appointed as coach of Spanish second-division side Real Oviedo on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOviedo have reached an agreement to hire Raul\u2026 as the new first-team coach until June 2028,\u201d said the Asturian side in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oviedo, who were relegated from La Liga last season, dismissed coach Julian Calero earlier Monday with the team ninth in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy way of understanding football is with respecting the talent (in the squad) but asking for unconditional effort,\u201d said Raul in a video published by the club on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe team has to fight from the first minute to the last for victory so the fans are proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raul, 49, previously coached Real Madrid\u2019s reserve side from 2019 to 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a player, Raul won six La Liga titles and three Champions Leagues with Real Madrid, before joining Schalke, Al Sadd and the New York Cosmos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The striker was also a regular for Spain, making 102 appearances and netting 44 goals with La Roja.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/former-real-madrid-star-raul-to-coach-oviedo\/\">Former Real Madrid star Raul to coach Oviedo<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid striker Raul Gonzalez was appointed as coach of Spanish second-division side Real Oviedo on Monday. \u201cOviedo have reached an agreement to hire Raul\u2026 as the new first-team&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}