{"id":10328,"date":"2026-10-09T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=10328"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:42:34","slug":"fewer-legends-more-grafters-how-laliga-dugouts-have-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/?p=10328","title":{"rendered":"Fewer legends, more grafters: how LaLiga dugouts have changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/competition\/laliga-10\/fixtures\">LaLiga<\/a>\u2019s dugouts have pivoted from icons to industrious tacticians, with Diego Pablo Simeone the last emblem of that star-player era. Recent years still featured Xabi Alonso, \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa and Xavi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>AS notes a clear shift this season. Few current coaches starred on the grandest stages and none has been up for the Ballon d\u2019Or. Grafters now prevail, some with modest careers, others curtailed by injury or juggling jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Cl\u00e1sico now pits Hansi Flick against Jos\u00e9 Mourinho. Flick\u2019s managerial haul dwarfs his playing days, which included Bayern and K\u00f6ln before a player-coach spell and retirement in 2000, and he was never capped by Germany. Mourinho logged 94 games from 1980 to 1987 for Rio Ave, Os Belenenses, Sesimbra and Com\u00e9rcio e Ind\u00fastria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Edin Terzic, now at Athletic, spent his career in Germany\u2019s fourth tier until 30, then joined Hannes Wolf at Borussia Dortmund\u2019s academy and led the club to the 23-24 Champions League final. Be\u00f1at San Jos\u00e9, at Rayo Vallecano, rose from Real Sociedad\u2019s youth via Al Ittihad and Al Ettifaq to posts in Belgium, Mexico and the UAE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Bordal\u00e1s retired at 28 after injuries, never debuting for H\u00e9rcules, then worked his way through the Alicante scene before Alav\u00e9s, where he won promotion. He reached the Primera in 17-18 by taking Getafe up. Many others fit the solid-pro mould, seven of 20, typified by Quique S\u00e1nchez Flores, a 304-game LaLiga full back who later won the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup with Atl\u00e9tico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u201cArtificial intelligence was used to assist in creating this article based on reporting from the original source quoted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/news\/fewer-legends-more-grafters-how-laliga-dugouts-have-changed-43584129\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaLiga\u2019s dugouts have pivoted from icons to industrious tacticians, with Diego Pablo Simeone the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2Fv22Fphotobooth2Fcms2Fen2F435841293Fdate2026-10-09.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}