Zinedine Zidane may enter into the history of football by winning a World Cup (or a euro) as coach of the French team, if he succeeds Didier Deschamps in the wake of the 2026 World Cup in North America. For the moment, his record as a technician is remarkable. In two passages at the head of Real Madrid, he was champion of Spanish twice (2017 and 2020) and above all won three Champions League in a row with the Merengues (2016, 2017 and 2018). He therefore misses the king's cup.
“Zizou” is therefore one of the great players who have become great coaches, he who was Ballon d'Or 98 after having led the French team to the coronation at the World Cup, before becoming the star player (the leader of the “Galactics”) of Real by Florentino Pérez in the early 2000s. That said, the Native of Marseille, Magnificent playmaker at the Jove, won that a Champions League and a single liga (and the king's cup, decidedly!).
Zidane like Cruyff and Guardiola
Frank Lampard is tired of hearing that the great retirement players fail to turn into good coaches. “It's really tiring to say that great players do not make big coaches. Let's start to list a few:
(Zinedine) Zidane(Carlo) Ancelotti(Johan)
Cruyff(Pep) Guardiola… It's just a mistake. It's just to choose an argument with a confirmation bias ”. And the top scorer in the story of Chelsea also defends the coach careers of Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney, the other stars of the Three Lions of the 2000s, who still have many years ahead of them.
The concern is that Lampard cited the only great players who then stood out … In the top 100 of the best coaches in history, Johan Cruyff, a triple European golden ball, is classified 3rd behind Rinus Michels, his mentor, and Alex Ferguson. Pep Guardiola, who has Cruyff for inspiration, is 5th. Carlo Ancelotti is positioned in 17th position, while Zinedine Zidane is a little further, in 36th place.
