France surrenders to Zidane

“The Jewels of Real Madrid” (Les Joyaux du Real), titled L'Équipe on your cover yesterday to refer to Benzema already Zidane. The prestigious French newspaper highlighted the coach's work during this League and his courage to return to the Madrid bench at a critical moment in March 2019. It is the second league championship that Zidane has achieved out of three disputed and the 11th title since he landed in 2016 after the dismissal of Benitez.

They say the second parts were never good, or at least for almost everyone. For Zidane, just as he did in 2006 to try to win the World Cup with France after years of retirement in the selection, his return to Madrid was like the return to his second home. The one that you never leave and that you take even more care of when you return. For this reason, the coach himself stated on Friday that it was one of the happiest days of his life as a soccer professional.

From France they have mainly highlighted the physical and mental strength of the league champion. L'Équipe remembers that Zidane never gave up and, although he had difficult moments like that of Majorca in October, he knew how to remake himself and convince the squad that the League was possible. In Champions, despite the defeat in the first leg of the second round against City, Madrid knew how to get up from the hard setback against PSG (3-0) and the strange draw against him Witches (2-2) in the Bernabéu.

With this League, Zidane has become the coach who has won the most titles in the last four years (11). If we consider that the Marseilles He was untrained for six months after a temporary retirement between June 2018 and March 2019, the statistic further enhances the Frenchman. From the neighboring country they also highlight their tactical evolution on the benches, adding various variants in the delivery of the ball and using various game systems, something that was not seen so much during its first stage in the Spanish capital. It has also been the League of Karim Benzema, which L’Équipe stands out as “a player from another dimension” and that has contributed to being decisive in the league championship, scoring 21 goals and with possibilities to snatch the pichichi from Leo Messi on the last day …