Madrid Aug 4 (IANS) Albert Celades who stepped down recently as coach of Spain s U-21 team has joined Real Madrid as an assistant to head coach Julen Lopetegui.
Celades s appointment was declared on Friday. Celades who turns 43 next month played for Barcelona and Real Madrid. With Real Madrid he won a European Cup an Intercontinental Cup a European Super Cup two La Liga titles and a Spanish Super Cup reports Efe.
He began working with the national team in 2013 serving successively as coach of the U-16 U-17 and U-21 squads.
Celades guided the U-21 side to second place in the European championships in 2017 and was an assistant coach for the senior team at both the 2014 and 2018 World Cups.

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