Zidane: to be or not to be a coach

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When discussing the ideal coach model for Madrid, it is usual to value the skills to match the egos of economically satiated soccer players and far from reality. It is an indispensable quality, no doubt, and highly valued not only in the football sector, but in business, because buying talent is easy, enough money, but optimizing that talent implies emotional intelligence. Zidane has it. The problem, however, is that French is not a CEO with CEOs who organize talents. It is both. He is a leader and a coach, and now is the time to be a coach.

To be so is to analyze the situation in which your team is, know the resources available and organize them to achieve a goal. It is possible that Madrid's planning was not adequate , especially because of the decisions made in the center of the field, but in large part they are also due to the wishes of Zidane, who let Marcos Llorente and Ceballos leave, and only accepted The arrival of Pogba . In a market with inflation triggered it was very complex. The club does not decide the line-ups, nor the game system, but it can act in favor of balancing the workforce above the wishes of a conjunctural figure, such as that of the coach. Keeping more effective in the center of the field was a prudent measure, just as it would have been a strategic success in the economic and sports execution of the agreement that Madrid had in the past with Kepa , to play or to sell.

All that, however, is already past and, now, a few months before the winter market opens, Madrid faces a serious structural problem that Zidane has to improve with pure coach decisions: first the lines, then psychology . The way in which the team was overcome in the Park of the Princes revealed tactical shortcomings that make players worse. The backward defense causes panic, as evidenced by the insecurity that could be observed in Varane or Militao . The distance between the lines leaves the midfielders sold, because the rivals find a very valuable space to maneuver. At that juncture, with a Madrid of more or less, the attackers ended up disconnected. Zidane needs, then, a 'cut and paste' .

An assembled team improves the players and a broken one makes them worse, except when the disorder is deliberate to infect the contrary and impose the greatest punching capacity. Without Cristiano , that is not, today, a good plan. Balancing the center of the field, where absences accumulate, is urgent , although Zidane has to move the pieces and think, for a day, as the coach of a small team. Starting from three centrals and advancing to the sides to offer help, or return to a 4-4-2, with a double pivot, are some of the options to start to recompose the control, the result and the confidence, as if it were of a 'domino effect'. The opposite can lead to the 'butterfly effect': a harmless loss causes a goal, a defeat, more crisis and more doubts about who now has them all, but can not count any. That is also being a coach.

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• Marcos Llorente
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• Real Madrid
• Zinedine Zidane

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