The Return of the Zizou

[Karim Benzema]

Zinedine Zidane has emerged as a strong contender to replace Laurent Blanc as France boss. Despite having no coaching experience, the 40-year-old is being seriously considered for the post by French FA chief Noel le Graet, according to L'Equipe. Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has already turned down the post, while Didier Deschamps, the next man on their wish list, has reservations. Allez! Zidane (right) has emerged as a contender for the vacant France job Zidane admitted at the weekend that he was ready to go into coaching, having served as a presidential adviser and now first-team director at Real Madrid. Le Graet reacted warmly, saying: 'I find it very charming that he has expressed a desire to be close to France’s team. 'He dreams of coaching France within a decade. It is very gratifying.' His otherwise glorious football career ended ignominiously when he planted his head into Marco Materazzi’s chest and was sent off in the 2006 World Cup final. Disappointment: France endured another fractious tournament And France will wonder if he is the type of character to whip into shape a group of players who have had a penchant for revolt against authority in recent tournaments. A poll on the L'Equipe shows fans already delivering a resounding 'Non' to the idea, with three quarters of the first 20,000 respondents against Zidane's appointment. Blanc left after the team were knocked out by Spain in the quarter-finals of Euro 2012. Le Graet hopes to hold further talks with Deschamps, who quit as Marseille boss this week. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz1zk8GFMhE

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[chris89]

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[Hickory Dickory]

would be laff when you get knocked out in the group stages of '14 world cup, lelleel

inb4hewinsworldcup

[Naruto]

if he came back n knocked spain out in wc final n won it >>>>

[Mr. Jefferies]

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Why?

Great players don't necessarily make great managers. He'd be daft to take the job.

[Naruto]

Why?

Great players don't necessarily make great managers. He'd be daft to take the job.

if he did take it tho and got france to the semi's or even WON it, his legend status would be even greater >>>>>>>>>>>>>

would be nice to see him managing anyway

[DTR]

Zidane>>
GOAT.

[Mr. Jefferies]

if he did take it tho and got france to the semi's or even WON it, his legend status would be even greater >>>>>>>>>>>>>

would be nice to see him managing anyway

Has he even done his coaching badges? The article doesn't mention them. Wiki doesn't say anything about him doing them either but it does say this:

After France's dismal campaign in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Zidane said that he did not plan to move into coaching any time soon.

That was only two years ago, if he's had a sudden change of heart then two years isn't enough to jump head first into a big job like that, it'd go tits up. Even Maradona had two managerial jobs before taking the Argentina job and look how badly he did there.

[Karim Benzema]

@The Wet Dog

it would just be nice i guess i dunno


thing is frances main problem is their attitude and teamwork. they all think they are overly sick individuals and always argue with each other especially "generation '87".


brining in truly one of the greatest if not the greatest french players ever to push them in place can settle there ego a bit


that is the idea i guess


but i doubt he'd be a good manager, not now anyway


if he does do it (which i doubt anyway) i doubt we'd win anything but i think behind the scenes will run better e.g team chemistry

which is what FFF need


since he retired from intentional team, FFF have been shit...full of idiots like narsi who think they can be the next "zidane"



its just a "what if"

whoever is the new FFFmanager needs to fix the team completely

there are too many sub groups within the players (forgot the name for it, clieks?), and between themselves and other groups they argue

this new manager (imo and many others who i have talked to) need to drop alot of its big names (all the guys from gen '87 with a few expections) and just start from scratch, cause we are becoming a joke now

[Romelu Lukaku]

Mixed feelings, guy is a legend but he has no managerial experience.

Would sooner have Deschamps at this moment in time.