There are phone calls that you remember all your life. This one, Christian Constantin is not about to forget. For more than an hour, the president of FC Sion, current 9th in the Swiss Super League, spoke with Zinedine Zidane. On his initiative, the former Real Madrid coach praised the merits of David Bettoni, his former assistant, inducted on the team’s bench on Monday evening.
“It made me very happy to be able to talk about football with him (ZZ) for an hour and a quarter,” Constantin told the Swiss daily. The morning. He had a much better reception with me than he had recently had with Le Graët! He told me how loyal David had been to him, that he had never sought to find fault with him in his mission. Without him, he told me again, I would never have succeeded in doing what I achieved at Real during all his years. When there is a coach like Zidane, you have to ensure behind otherwise you do not exist. »
Alongside the 98 world champion, David Bettoni, 51, won the Champions League three times (2016, 2017, 2018). He will ensure the training session this Tuesday and will make his first match as a coach this Saturday against Young Boys Bern, the current leader after 23 games played. Tipped to Bordeaux to succeed Vladimir Petkovic, then to Lille to replace Jocelyn Gourvennec in 2022, the native of Saint-Priest finally settled in the club where the whimsical Mario Balotelli plays with the sole ambition of avoiding relegation.
