Xabi Alonso

Xabi Alonso is one of those rare footballers who made the game look almost unfairly elegant — a central midfielder who could spray 60-yard passes with pinpoint accuracy and then casually score a screamer from 35 yards when he felt like it. His career arc through Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich reads like a greatest-hits tour of European football, collecting a Champions League, multiple La Liga titles, a World Cup, and two European Championships along the way. But what genuinely surprised everyone was how seamlessly he transitioned into management at Bayer Leverkusen, winning the Bundesliga in the 2023-24 season without losing a single league match — an achievement that felt as calm and inevitable as he always did on the ball. The man just has a gift for making excellence look effortless.

Name (English)

Xabi Alonso

Name (Japanese)

シャビ・アロンソ

Reading

しゃび・あろんそ

Born

November 25, 1981 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

Origin

Tolosa, Basque Country, Spain

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit
• 2010 Lan Onari

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/xabialonso/
• Xhttps://x.com/XabiAlonso
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xabi%20Alonso
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%93%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q208104

Tags

• Basque Country
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.