Zinedine Zidane followed the Blues’ journey to Qatar from Spain. Despite several invitations, the 1998 Ballon d’Or did not go there. The world champion thrilled in the final once morest Argentina (3-3, 2-4 on tab) with the blue jersey still in his heart, and he sympathized with this cruel defeat. He also experienced this bitter taste in the final with the scenario that we know and his expulsion once morest Italy in 2006 in Berlin for his final match for the France team.
“Zizou” watched all the matches of the band at Deschamps with particular care, remaining the first supporter of his former captain for more than six years together in the France team (1994-2000). With the possible extension of Deschamps until June 2026, he will not succeed him immediately. This new long-term contract blocks Zidane’s tricolor horizon. The 50-year-old technician still has the fiber and the desire to train.
The hypothesis of finding him now on the bench of a club is gaining momentum. PSG dreamed of it in the spring and especially the Emir of Qatar Tamim ben Hamad Al Thani, who has the greatest admiration for the coach with three Champions Leagues. But “Zizou” has little taste for Paris in the current state of the club’s organization.
He wants to take up a challenge where he knows he would have every chance of winning.
The former Madridista is in no hurry. He lives very well and enjoys his large family. He wants to take up a challenge where he knows he would have every chance of winning, in a well-structured club and where he would have full technical powers. Passion is not a blank check story for Zidane. Otherwise, he would have accepted the advances of Manchester United who sounded out his agent Alain Migliaccio on several occasions. The former attacking midfielder appreciates the Championships and the environments he knows. He is not one to go on an adventure in the Premier League, even if he has a better command of English.
Juventus Turin, whose colors he wore, remains a project that can attract him. But this possibility is not on the agenda for the moment. Zidane, in reserve since the summer of 2021, admitted at the end of October that he hoped to return to service soon. ” I’m not far, conceded the tricolor icon present at the Grévin museum for the opening of its wax statue. We wait, we wait a little bit. Coming soon. But here, we still enjoy. » Was he then thinking of the tricolor hypothesis?
