The former Real Madrid coach addresses fans to explain why he left: “I will always be one of you”
“Dear madridistas.” This is how the letter that Zinedine Zidane, already a former Real Madrid coach, has addressed to fans begins after the club officially announced his departure last Thursday. In a letter published on the front page of the newspaper As, Zidane explains the reasons for his departure: “I’m leaving, but I don’t jump off the boat and I’m not tired of training,” he says.
To fill the position you leave vacant Zidane several names sound, although with special force those of the Italian Antonio Conte, the Argentinian Pochettino or the wild card of Raul Gonzalez, current coach of Castile.
“I am leaving because I feel that the club no longer gives me the confidence I need, it does not offer me the support to build something in the medium or long term,” he argues. Zidane, in a letter in which he does not skimp on criticism. “I know football and I know the demands of a club like him Madrid, I know that when you don’t win you have to go, “he continues,” but here one very important thing has been forgotten, everything that I have built on a day-to-day basis has been forgotten, what I have contributed in the relationship with the players, with the 150 people who work with and around the team. “
“I am a born winner and I was here to win trophies,” he continues Zidane, “But beyond this there are human beings, emotions, life and I have the feeling that these things have not been valued, that it has not been understood that this is also how the dynamics of a great club are maintained. Even, in a way, I have been reproached. “
Aim Zidane directly to the president of the Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez: “I want to respect what we have done together,” he asks, “I would have liked my relationship with the club and with the president in recent months to have been a little different from that of other coaches. I did not ask for privileges, for of course not, but a little more memory. “
“Today the life of a coach on the bench of a great club is two seasons, not much longer,” he says, “for it to last longer, human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame , more important than everything. You have to take care of them. ” And he criticizes: “That’s why it hurt a lot when I read in the press, after a defeat, that they were going to throw me out if I didn’t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these messages were intentionally leaked to the media they created negative interference with the staff, they created doubts and misunderstandings. “
Finish your letter Zidane with a message to journalists: “I have done hundreds of press conferences and unfortunately we have spoken very little about football and I know that you also love football, that this sport unites us,” he argues, “however, without pretending to criticize you or give you lessons, I would have liked that the questions were not always directed towards controversy, that we would have talked more often about the ball and above all about the players, who are and always will be the most important in this game “. And he concludes with a wish: “Let’s not forget football, let’s take care of football.”
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