Former Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso has announced he will pursue a career in football management having hung up his boots at the end of last season.
Alonso, who won 114 caps for Spain and won the Champions League twice during a glittering playing career, has been doing his coaching badges since his final game for Bayern Munich in May.
There were reports that the 35-year-old could be in line to return to Liverpool as a coach, where he would be reunited with the club's Under-18s manager Steven Gerrard.
But Alonso, dressed in a smart suit beside a football pitch, has released a cryptic message which suggests his future lies elsewhere as a man in the dugout as much as at the training ground.
In a short story, he said: 'After 17 years in the game, I have considered the next step in my career. I have decided to go into management. Find out soon. #HereToCreate.'
-Dailymail