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Zidane, the man who twice saved Florentino’s head

BarcelonaSome journalists from Madrid remember a conversation with Florentino Pérez during the president’s first stage at the Bernabéu box office. He was talking about Zidane. “It’s a shame he doesn’t want to be a coach, because he would be one of the greats,” the businessman said. At the time, Zizou was still playing but had already announced that he did not want to know anything about football, once he hung up his boots. Things of life, this idea only lasted him three years. Retired in 2006, in 2009 he returned to the Bernabéu as a presidential adviser and in 2014 he made the leap to the benches, in Madrid Castilla, where he would start firing in the lower categories. Until January 2016 he would move up to the first team. An emergency resource that would end up being an unprecedented success as he won three Champions in a row. He would pack up and fold. But a year and a half later he would return to Chamartín, again to act as a firefighter, in one of the most critical moments of Florentino’s presidency. Two and a half seasons later I would decide to fold of my own free will, again. Madrid is looking for a coach.

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