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Zinedine Zidane confirmed that he dreams of coaching the French national football team “one day”, noting that “now is not the time” to oversee Paris Saint-Germain, coaching the Paris club in the future. without ruling out the possibility.
In a lengthy interview with L’Equipe, which was held in early May but published on the occasion of his birthday on Thursday, his career as a player and coach, the former French international reviews those moments which he lived and his plans for the future, emphasizing that training a rooster is “the most beautiful thing possible”.
The 2000 European champions will have to wait at least until the end of the World Cup later this year in Qatar (21 November to 18 December), as current coach Didier Deschamps’ contract expires at the end of 2022. Option to expand it in place.
Zizhou hints: Today, there is a team that exists and has goals. But if I had a chance after that, I would have been there.”
After leading Real Madrid to three consecutive Champions League titles as coach between 2016 and 2018 – after winning the continental title with them as a player in 2002 – Zidane is looking for a new challenge and confirms that he Wants to “continue training”.
And if he believes that “now is not the time” to coach Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille’s son does not rule out one day overseeing the first rival of the capital club, Olympique Marseille.
The former Juventus player said: “You should not say that you will never do anything, especially when you are the coach. But the question is meaningless. It is definitely not his time.
Within ten years, Zidane, who runs his own business with his family at the Z5 sports complex, sees himself as the head of a “structure or institution”.
Without denying the idea that he might one day lead a club, he explains: Why shouldn’t I be in a project where I’m the leader? All possibilities are open.
“Of course I will,” says the 1998 world champion. Hopefully one day I will be (coach). when? It doesn’t depend on me. But I want to go back to where I started in the French national team.
And the former leader of his country says: This is the pinnacle. Being that I lived through it and now I am a coach, France is firmly rooted in my head.
The 2000 European champions will have to wait at least until the end of the World Cup later this year in Qatar (21 November to 18 December), as current coach Didier Deschamps’ contract expires at the end of 2022. Option to expand it in place.
Zizhou prompts: There’s a team that has goals. But if I had a chance after that, I would have been there.”
After leading Real Madrid to three consecutive Champions League titles as coach between 2016 and 2018 – after winning the continental title with them as a player in 2002 – Zidane is looking for a new challenge and confirms that he Wants to “continue training”.
And if he believes that “now is not the time” to coach Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille’s son does not rule out one day overseeing the first rival of the capital club, Olympique Marseille.
The former Juventus player said: “You should not say that you will never do anything, especially when you are the coach. But the question is meaningless. It is definitely not his time.
Within ten years, Zidane, who runs his own business with his family at the Z5 sports complex, sees himself as the head of a “structure or institution”.
Without denying the idea that he might one day lead a club, he explains: Why shouldn’t I be in a project where I’m the leader? All possibilities are open.