While we wait for Zidane. When the French icon stepped down as Real Madrid coach in 2021, the Frenchman told the world he was going to have a longer holiday. Only a year ago, Zidane himself showed signs of becoming impatient to return to the ring, but Zizou is still without a coaching job.
What has been clear over the past year is that Zidane is waiting for his dream job. It didn’t come after the World Cup in Qatar, when Deschamps changed his mind and allowed himself to be persuaded to continue. This World Cup, Deschamps has decided will be the last. Saturday is the bronze final, so celebration of 14 years at the helm as national team coach of Les Bleus.
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Zinedine Zidane replaces Deschamps and starts with four Nations League games
The arrow has long pointed towards Zinedine Zidane as a replacement, and if reports from French newspapers are to be believed, his appointment is a formality.
L’Equipe reports that Zidane will not officially start as national team coach until September 1. The same applies to the coaching staff that the former national team player will be associated with.
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The 54-year-old Zidane will get a four-year contract with Les Bleus, starting in the job with a three-week international break, with four Nations League games on the agenda. For Zidane, this is the pronounced dream job, twenty years after he played his last match in the French national team, which ended with a headbutt of an Italian.
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