When French coach Zinedine Zidane returned to Real Madrid training on March 12 last year, he immediately announced that his goal was to win the Spanish Football League, which was achieved on Thursday after beating Villarreal 2-1.
Zidane took over as coach to replace Santiago Solari, who was sacked by the club’s board following the collapse of the Champions League season, in the hope of reforming the team and returning it to the championship path.
"My goal is to win the League title," Zidane said in his first comments. Although he stumbled in the beginning and even in the preparation period and the beginning of the current season, He soon regained his balance, culminating in the Spanish Super Cup title at the beginning of this year, then snatching the top of the league from his arch-rivals Barcelona.
And the championships are not strange for Al-Malaki and Zidan, but the team has lagged locally in recent years for Barcelona, which has won the League title 8 times since the 2008-2009 season, against only two titles for Real, and one title for Atletico Madrid.
Zidane managed to lead the Real for 10 consecutive victories, the last of which was his victory over Villarreal, which made him snatch the lead from Barcelona, and tightened his grip, until the title officially reached 34 La Liga.
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Zidane regained his best local time with Al-Malaki, after he achieved a series of successive victories when he took over the team for the first time in 2016 to succeed coach Rafa Benitez, whose results were disappointing.
Despite the success of Real under Zidane in winning the Champions League 3 times in 2016, 2017 and 2018, he won only the domestic league title in the 2016-2017 season, in light of Barcelona's domination of the title.
Although he won the domestic title in his first season with the team only, it represented an ideal start for the team towards the European hegemony, which he focused on after that. Liverpool account in the final match.
And because Zidane knows very well that the main reason Real Madrid continued to challenge its European title is the solidity of the first domestic season, which built the strength of the European unbeatable team. He has repeated the experience this season, which foretells his strong return to the Nominations Service for the European title.
The Spanish newspaper "Marca" said that despite the away Real from his beautiful ball, he reached a team performance more consistent and stronger, while maintaining solidity in the back lines and defense discipline.
In the matches in which the offensive solutions to the scoring were absent, the goals came from behind by Commander Sergio Ramos, who became the team's third scorer this season, and he is credited with being the first to be the strongest defense team in the League, where he only shook his net 23 times, which is what Instead of being the second team to score goals after Barcelona with 68 goals.
The newspaper added that Zidane knows exactly what the Royal Champions League means, the historical champion of the tournament, but he is also aware that winning the league will help build a strong team, which he focused on since he stopped the activity due to the Corona epidemic.
Therefore, Zidane's focus will shift after the League title to the Champions League, hoping to achieve the title of the royal also.