Raúl Leaves Castilla
The former legendary Real Madrid striker ends his tenure at the club's first reserve team to pursue new challenges
Óscar Bellot
Madrid
Martes, 27 de mayo 2025, 12:35
It was an open secret, but as of this Tuesday, it is official. Raúl González Blanco is ending his tenure as the coach of Castilla. Seven years after beginning his coaching career in Real Madrid's youth academy, the legendary striker of the Chamartín club leaves La Fábrica to embark on new professional challenges.
"For Real Madrid, it has been an honour to have one of the greatest legends in our history and world football as a coach and mentor in our academy," stated the Real Madrid announcement, which thanked the Madrid native for his services and acknowledged that he exemplifies "all the values of Real Madrid".
After hanging up his boots in 2015 as a player for New York Cosmos, a team he joined from Al-Sadd after previously playing for Schalke 04, Raúl returned to Real Madrid in the summer of 2018 to manage Cadete B and Juvenil B. In 2019, he took the helm of Castilla, where he has remained until now, mentoring the most promising talents of La Fábrica, although he did not achieve the coveted promotion to Segunda.
Winner of the Youth League in August 2020 with Real Madrid's Juvenil A, after Dani Poyatos' departure led him to temporarily assume the role, Raúl came close to promotion with Castilla in the 2022-23 season, fighting until the last moment of the playoff final against Eldense. However, the toughness of such a demanding category as the Primera Federación, the inexperience of most of the players under his charge, injuries, and continuous changes in the squad convinced everyone that it was best to start a new chapter in Real Madrid's first reserve team. His successor will be Álvaro Arbeloa, who leaves Juvenil A with a record full of successes.
"I thank the club of my life for the opportunity it has given me all these years," Raúl stated in a communiqué posted on his social media, where, without revealing anything about his future, he noted that "a new chapter" is opening in his life as a coach outside the club "with the conviction that one day" he will return to what has always been his home."
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