The Zidane era has finally begun in the French team. Summoned by their new coach to report to Clairefontaine, the Blues trained this Tuesday under the eyes of the general public and the media. Only Kylian Mbappé was missing, victim of flu syndrome. For the rest, the observers who came to scrutinize the first sessions of “Zizou” were able to note a first change compared to the end of the reign of Didier Deschamps. If DD ended his mandate with a very offensive 4-2-3-1 at the World Cup, Zidane had announced the color.
“You’ll see. There will definitely be changes. I want a team that plays, that decides to take the game into its own hands. And when she doesn’t have the ball, you have to be balanced. But what will excite me is to make this team play well. » This evening, The Team confirms that change is now. No more 4-2-3-1. Three days before the trip to Turkey for the first day of the Nations League, Zidane made his players work in a 4-3-3 with a specific goal: reinstall MbappĂ© on the left and allow Ousmane DembĂ©lĂ© to play up front, as he does with Luis Enrique at Paris Saint-Germain.
Da Cunha and Cherki congratulated
In this exercise without an opponent, Zidane asked his flock “to work on the diagonals after having doubled the passes on one side”, writes the newspaper which specifies that, contrary to the image he conveys in public, Zidane was very talkative on the pitch. Throughout the afternoon and the exercises, The Team assures that the 1998 world champion often congratulated Michael Olise, but especially the midfielders Lucas Da Cunha and Rayan Cherki, both aligned in a three-way midfielder. The Como player’s vision of the game would have much more to ZZ who even spoke for a few minutes with the 25-year-old former Nice player at the end of the session.
“When I think of the selection, I think of the 2018 World Cup that France won, I experienced it as a supporter, it gave me a lot of emotions. Zidane? For all French people, he was a legend, an extraordinary player, and today, being able to go to the national team with him as a coach is an immense source of pride.”declared Da Cunha on September 19. Since today, Zidane has become a coach who seems to appreciate his style and with whom he had friendly exchanges at the end of training.
