Zinedine Zidane became rapidly one of the best managers in the world thanks to his team’s performances in the last two seasons. Zidane has demonstrated the maturity and the attitude to deal with his players –some of them are the best in the world in their positions and make them better than they were at Zizou’s arrival. 

During the last 18 months, Zidane built a team that is able to defend and attack with the same quality. Regardless of his not-so-good stay at Real Madrid Castilla, the French boss demonstrated that they learned very well from Ancelotti and now is time to make himself a historic figure in football history, but this time as coach.

The world has seen several cases of players becoming successful managers and even having more success in their new facet. We have seen extraordinary cases in players like Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, and Antonio Conte among others. In recent years this practice has increased exponentially and it only will continue growing up in the near future.

Since the 2000s, football has witnessed great coaches who used to be decent players, but with some exceptions, there haven’t been wonderful players who couldn’t move that wonderfulness to the bench at the time of managing. One of those exceptions –besides the ones mentioned above- is Zinedine Zidane. Zidane didn’t start his career as a boss in the best way, as the Frenchman showed more doubts than certainties during his days with Real Madrid Castilla. 

However, the former World Champion learned from his errors, took his own wisdom and Madrid’s former boss, Carlo Ancelotti and put it into practice when he arrived at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium last year to put “Los Blancos” onto the top of both Europe and the world. Zidane has converted this team; they used to be more of a show and individual performances during Rafa Benitez’s days at the White House, but “Harry Potter” made them play as a team, with more work than show and it’s worked awesome for them.

Nevertheless, as usual, there are still people that think Zidane isn’t good enough for Madrid, despite having won the Champions League after only five months managing the team and winning the league for the first team in five years. Zizou brought marvelous things to this team, as he provided good game and plenty of joy to the fans, but just in case you are not-so-sure about the Magician and his quality in front of Real Madrid, here are some things to study before describing him as a bad coach. 

Since his arrival to Real Madrid, Zidane has managed 128 games, in which he collected 83 victories, 26 draws, and only 19 losses, scoring 308 goals and receiving 141. If that isn’t domination, I don’t know what else could be. In addition, and as we said before, he won two of the most important titles in Real Madrid history in recent years, the Champions League and La Liga, and now both Zidane and his squad are ready to defend their European title against one of the most difficult teams they will face in recent seasons, Juventus.

Zinedine has displayed the best of his tactics with Real Madrid. He has known how to renew himself and the team, giving second chances to players who seemed forgotten by him such as Isco and also making young and talented players do their debut in the first team like Vasquez or Marco Asensio. 

Being the 4-3-3 off his preferred formation, Zidane has collected several achievements and made this team a humble one, a team that knows how to play both in offense and defense. The French boss did a great job developing this team and after almost two seasons, we all can see the results. Now, Real Madrid led by a man that already has won the UCL as a coach and as a player is ready to make history and be the first team to win the Champions League two seasons in a row.