“I hope to tell myself that I will quickly be able to train,” says Zinédine Zidane

Guest of the Téléfoot program on Sunday, the 1998 world champion confirmed that he would soon like to return to a bench.

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Zinédine Zidane during an event with the Alpine Formula 1 team, February 16, 2023. (DANIEL LEAL / AFP)

Zinédine Zidane wants to find the coaching costume. Guest of the Téléfoot program on TF1, Sunday June 25, the former Real Madrid coach spoke about his desire to return to a bench, at the head of a club. “I hope to tell myself that I will soon be able to train”he confided in particular.

Two years after his departure from Madrid after a second term on the Real bench in 2021, Zidane explained that he missed living football from the inside. “Obviously, it’s missing, when you’re outside you look at it differently. When you have a team, which you have to coach, it’s not the same thing at all. I need it”, he said. While his name is linked with several clubs, the native of Marseille is confident for the future. “It will come […] You mustn’t forbid yourself anything, feel things and want them”he explained, before striking: “I know what I want and what I don’t want.”

Asked about the matches and championships he follows during this period of free time, the 1998 world champion immediately mentioned the Spanish Liga, where he officiated on the Real bench between 2016 and 2018, then between 2019 and 2021: “It’s a championship that I like, open, with a lot of teams playing.” But he also said he was watching the France team, and the Premier League. What to find clues about his future destination?


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