A year and a half before the 2026 World Cup and the scheduled departure of Didier Deschamps from his position as coach of the France team, Zinédine Zidane will not return to service on the Real Madrid bench this season. An ouster of Carlo Ancelotti is not at all on the agenda in the Casa Blanca offices, despite the real sporting crisis experienced by the Merengues, humiliated 4-0 at the Bernabéu during the last Clasico by Barça and beaten a second time in the Champions League, Tuesday by Milan (1-3).
According to the Barcelona media Mundo Deportivo“Zizou” does not intend to return to Real’s side if he was offered the challenge. Triple winner of the C1 as coach of the first team (2016, 2017 and 2018), the former Galactic of the 2000s left his post before returning nine months later, in March 2019, after the Julen fiasco Lopetegui and the inconclusive interim of Santiago Solari. With Zidane, Real returned to the La Liga title in 2020, in the middle of Covid, but no longer reached the LDC final.
Solari rather than Zidane
If President Florentino Pérez does not intend to change coach during the season, he would however have decided on the potential interim coach that he would induct for the rest of the financial year (before the probable arrival of Xabi Alonso during the next off-season) . To believe Okdiarioit is precisely Solari who would settle on the Real sidelines in order to finish the season in control of Kylian Mbappé, Vinicius and Jude Bellingham, three Madrid stars who are for the moment unable to play together.
Former coach of Castilla (2016-2018) then of the first team in 2019, Solari is now one of the leaders of Real. He was installed as head of the club’s training center in 2022, before being promoted to director of football in December 2023. Florentino Pérez greatly appreciates the work of the former Argentine left midfielder. And Solari could totally be satisfied with this second interim on the Madrid bench before the new chapter that Xabi Alonso will write.
