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Without a club since the end of his adventure at Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane is determined to quickly find a sidelines and has opened the door for a next destination.
Zinedine Zidane is starting to find it long. This spring will in fact mark his three years without a club. Since his hasty departure from Real Madrid in May 2021, the French world champion has not lacked requests, but the 98 world champion has never been seduced by the various projects proposed.
The former playmaker is no less determined to return to service as a coach. The Marseillais said it again during an exchange with Sky Sport Italia on the sidelines of the presentation of a documentary on Marcelo Lippi, opening the door to a big return to Serie A. ” Why not ? “, he responded, adding: “Anything can happen, at the moment I’m doing something else but I’m sure I’ll be back on the bench, I’d love to. »
“Lippi made me become what I became”
Zinedine Zidane also looked back on his first complicated steps in Serie A when he arrived at Juventus in the summer of 1996. The opportunity to pay tribute to Marcelo Lippi, his first coach at the Bianconeri, origin of his coming to Piedmont. “Marcello Lippi is the one who brought me to Juventus, the first who believed in me and who let me play,” he pointed out.
“It wasn’t easy for him, I came from France, everything was different, but Lippi made me become what I became later, he added. He wanted me to stay when things were bad at first. We also won and did good things. » In five years at Juventus, Zinedine Zidane notably won two Italian championship titles, a UEFA Super Cup, an Intercontinental Cup and played in two Champions League finals.
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