SAN FRANCISCO, August 05, (THEWILL) – Former France international and Real Madrid coach, Zinedine Zidane has been named best manager in the world by French newspaper, L’Equipe.
The 48-year-old, who won a La Liga title, three Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups, two Club World Cups and a Spanish Super Cup during his first spell at the Bernabéu defeated Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola to the title.
He left the club in 2018 but was reappointed ten months later as manager. He just won another La Liga title and another Super Cup.
German coach, Klopp and Man City boss, Guardiola, are in the top three for their remarkable achievements with Zidane, but Tottenham boss, Jose Mourinho, was exempted as the L’Equipe described him as having a “fading image and magic.”
The paper said this about Zidane: “He is a coach who has experienced only one club, and quite rarely defeat.
“A coach who did what none of his predecessors did, win three Champions Leagues in a row (2016, 2017, 2018), who was able to return to the footsteps of his own glory and question everything to become a new Spanish champions with Real Madrid last month.”
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For the Manchester Manager, it said: “Guardiola has something else, his dogma, his permanent research, the virtuosity of his collective game, dizzying constructions, his consistency (198 points in two seasons from 2017 to 2019), but he does not have everything, and chooses his central defenders as his attackers or midfielders.”
They also added that Klopp has “charisma” and described him as the “fashionable man” and “favourite of many”.
THEWILL reports that Zidane has a chance of winning a fourth Champions League but he must first defeat Guardiola’s side, Man City as the Citizens in their first leg played in Spain had defeated Real Madrid 2-1.
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