Zinedine Zidane: Conductor
Zinedine Zidane: Conductor
The match matches on Saturday evening between "Barcelona" and "Real" (Madrid) was more special than all so far. Because a man who this time was neither among the 100 thousand spectators in the stands or in front of millions of televisions. A highly watched from heaven how the two best teams in Spain (and perhaps in the world) play in the Cathedral "Camp Nou" which he "built" with his philosophy as a player and coach. The biggest stadium in Europe paying their last respects to the deceased Johan Cruyff, but the disappointment of Catalonia triumph in the 264th edition of the eternal duel was of another genius from the opposing camp - Zinedine Zidane.
43-year-old Frenchman, like Cruyff is an icon of the beautiful and offensive football, but took victory in its first Clasico with a pragmatic and defensive, at least at the beginning of the derby game. There is hardly another way to protect against the lethal "trident" Neymar - Suarez - Messi and stop five-time winner of the "Golden Ball" put №500 in his career. Zidane found the recipe and apply it successfully. Perhaps he remembered the wise words of Cruyff: "Playing football is simple, but to play simple football is the most complex thing."
Here's how less than 100 days after his appointment "green" still choreographer of "white ballet" earned first compelling applause for his work in Madrid, which has so far produced conflicting results as home defeat 0: 1 "Atletico" and the subsequent pogrom 7: 1 on "Celta". Such games "Real" intoned and his former coach Rafael Benitez. Unlike Zidane he in no way can be called genius of offensive football, but it "Royal Club" was humiliated by "Barcelona" 0: 4 in his palace "Santiago Bernabeu". Now, crammed it back to "Camp Nou", although the victory with 2: 1 is far less convincing, and the gap in the standings remains quite convincing.
Earnings Clasico hardly give a definite answer the question of whether Zidane (now) is a great coach and whether it is right for the "Real". Today marks exactly three months after his appointment, during which time he managed to lift his team with a targeted physical training and several short training camp. Since the game in "Juventus", the Frenchman is obsessed fitness, healthy eating, sport mode and repeated high-priced stars in Madrid how to "eat grass" on the field. This is somewhat at odds with his promises of beautiful and spectacular offensive game, but today it is a trademark of "Barcelona".
Zidane was at the beginning of the road that will show whether the bench will enjoy the successes of Pep Guardiola (with whom he did not like to be compared), or there will be the fate of Diego Maradona, Lothar Matthaus and his compatriot Michel Platini, who proved that each whistle, sorry - great player, not a coach. As brilliant playmaker Frenchman earned the chance to be a favorite of the president of the "Royal Club" Florentino Perez, who in 2001 bought it from "Juventus" to then record € 76 million, in 2009 it made its advisor in 2013- and - an assistant to Carlo Ancelotti, and in 2014 - coach of the second team, despite having the necessary license and his first steps on a new path caused much controversy and negative reactions.
Like his last steps as a footballer at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin in the World Cup final when hit head Marco Materazzi and the last thing in his career was the red card and frustration of lost on penalties against Italy. In fact Yazid Zidane Zidane has been persecuted over 10 times as a player and this fact show through his Arab blood, southern temperament and unruly childhood in Marseille. His parents were immigrants from Algeria and feed five children, the youngest of which became one of the best players in history.
Zizu as affectionately call him, he won everything and his card switching from success. World and European champion with France, champion of Italy with "Juventus" and Spain "Real", winner of the Champions League three times winner of the "Golden Ball" Knight of the French Legion. It owns more than 70 medals, trophies and prizes as a player, but the window is large enough to accommodate more as a coach. Currently the conductor of golden generation in French soccer compose his first symphony for "white ballet".
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