Football: Beckham sent off as Madrid wield axe.Byline: BY TORRANCE MENDEZ REAL MADRID have sacked Brazilian coach Wanderley Luxemburgo. Luxemburgo had been in charge for less than a year after replacing Mariano Garcia Remon on December 30 last year. Last night's announcement came 24 hours after Real beat local rivals Getafe 1-0 for their first win in four Primera Liga and Champions League matches - a game which saw England midfielder David Beckham Luxemburgo has been replaced by Juan Ramon Lopez Caro, the coach of the club's reserve team Real Madrid Castilla who are in the second division. Lopez Caro, who has been in charge of Castilla for the last five seasons, has never before coached a topflight top·flight adj. Informal First-rate; excellent. topflight adj → de primera (categoría or clase) topflight adj → team. The Seville-born 42year-old becomes the sixth Real coach since Florentino Perez took over the presidency in 2000, following in the footsteps of Vicente Del Bosque, Carlos Queiroz Carlos Queiroz[1], ComIH (IPA: ['kaɾluʃ kɐi'ɾɔʃ]), (born 1 March 1953 in Nampula, Mozambique) is a Portuguese football coach. , Jose Antonio Camacho, Mariano Garcia Remon and Luxemburgo. Del Bosque, Garcia Remon and Lopez Caro were all promoted from within the club. Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has continually dismissed the suggestion of a return to the Bernabeu as coach |
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