Le Graët's unexpected revelation about Zidane

An unexpected media release. Two years ago, when Didier Deschamps' position seemed weakened and Zinedine Zidane appeared as a natural candidate to replace him, Noël Le Graëtl, then president of the French Football Federation, dropped a bomb on RMC Sport : “Zidane in Brazil? I don't care, he can go wherever he wants. He can go wherever he wants, in a club… selection, I hardly believe it as far as he is concerned. What if Zidane tried to contact me? Certainly not, I wouldn't even have picked him up on the phone. To tell him to look for another club? Make a special broadcast for him to find a club or a selection“, he said.

“It wasn’t against Zidane, who I would like to see as coach one day”

Comments which had inevitably caused controversy and which had even pushed Kylian Mbappé to react. Two years later, the Breton is no longer at the head of the FFF, having stepped aside after accusations of harassment. And obviously, he has now changed his mind about Zizou at the head of the Blues, as he reveals in the columns of West France : “I had just extended Didier Deschamps. In my opinion, 90% of leaders would have done the same thing. Many journalists were waiting for Zidane. The first journalist who calls me, I'm pretty much friendly. The second, a little less. Then the third one, I send him away. But it wasn't against Zidane, who I would like to see as coach one day. I was surprised that so-called specialists, who have never managed a club, played the Zidane card, probably because they were tired of writing about Didier and saying that he plays badly“. A surprising change of heart!

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