He was one of the all-time greats as a player, and Zinedine Zidane now merits consideration as one of the game’s great managers after making history with Real Madrid in Saturday’s Champions League final. “I need to congratulate the players as it is not at all easy what they are doing,” Zidane said after the game in the Ukrainian capital. Nevertheless, guiding Real to the longest period of sustained success in Europe’s elite club competition since the 1970s means, statistically at least, his place in the pantheon of great coaches is secure. Zidane recently insisted that winning La Liga is harder than anything else, but his Real side finished well behind Barcelona in third place in the season just finished. You know that at the start of the season we always want to win everything.”(AFP)(Visited 891 times, 21 visits today)

Source: Punch May 27, 2018 12:10 UTC