Zinédine Zidane at the launch of the Zidane Five Club, in Aix-en-Provence. - C. Simon / AFP

  • The former boss of RCT Mourad Boudjellal wants to become president of OM. And he says he is ready to do anything to recruit Zinédine Zidane.
  • The current coach of Real Madrid sees himself rather at the head of the France team, but has "no career plan. "
  • However, he has already declared that he does not want to return to Marseille, his hometown, where the fans' passion is "too pervasive." "

The dealers in the city of Castellane have no time to waste. Zinedine Zidane ? “He's not the one who makes me eat. The journalist is firmly escorted to the exit of the "drive": the city where the coach of Real Madrid grew up has become a cannabis supermarket. Far from the traffic, Abraham waits for his bus. This young OM supporter carefully read Mourad Boudjellal's last interview.

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"What would he come to do at #OM?" Zizou is at #RealMadrid! And after, he will train the France team. "In the city of #Castellane, where Zinédine #Zidane grew up, nobody takes Mourad #Boudjellal's words seriously. The former boss of #RCT, who wants to take over OM, said he was ready to "sleep in front of the door" of Zidane to bring him to #Marseille. “You should never say never, because Zidane has no career plan, comments @ fredhermel16, Zizou biographer. But all this is the com 'of Boudjellal. Zidane does not work on communication but on realities. He needs top-level working conditions. »My full article on the sea serpent« Zidane at OM »will be read tomorrow on the @ 20minutesfrance site and in the paper edition of @ 20minutes_marseille. As you can see in my photos, the city of Castellane is a #drug supermarket. When I got back, I first saw kids on scooters who were on guard. Then a chouf with dead eyes, completely stoned. Sprawled on his Decathlon chair, he softly offered me #cannabis. I talked about Zidane with a few fathers, before I was threatened by the #dealers who hold the stupid plan.

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The former boss of the RCT, candidate for the acquisition of OM, told La Provence that he would be ready to "sleep in front of the door" of Zizou to make him the coach of Marseille. "It would be a dream," sighs Abraham, used to the North turn of the Vélodrome. Then he opens his eyes again: “With all the glory he has had at Real, it would not be good for his career to return to OM. The France team may be the next step for him. "

Rather the Blues or Juventus?

“It will be very hard to get him to come to Marseille,” Anthony says. He lived here, he wants to experience something else. Otherwise, he would have signed for OM as a player, for example at the end of his career. Zidane himself admitted: he is a native of Marseille, but he would be unable to live in France's second largest city. The supporters of OM and Mourad Boudjellal preferred to forget this statement:

“I could live in Paris but not in Marseille. (…) People's love is too great, their passion too pervasive! It would be stifling. "

"Zizou" made this confession to Frédéric Hermel, author of a biography * of the quadruple winner of the Champions League. For the journalist, the hypothesis of a signing of Zinédine Zidane at OM is "not credible": "He is leaving for a season at Real. And then, two destinations seem written: the France team and Juve. "

Mourad Boudjelall says he wants Zidane as OM coach ... It's not easy when you read these words from Zizou in my book #zidane (@Ed_Flammarion). pic.twitter.com/NPsCjTqazH

- frédéric hermel (@fredhermel) August 25, 2020

And OM? As expected, the entourage of Zinédine Zidane was walled in a disdainful silence, this Thursday: “We will not make any statement. The coach of Real has not abandoned his region of origin: he owns the Z5, a set of five-a-side football fields, in Aix-en-Provence. According to our information, he is going to develop a complex dedicated to padel in Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône).

"With Zidane, you must never say never"

In mid-August, he came to Aix-en-Provence to announce the launch of the “Zidane Five Club”, a football school project in France. He recalled that he had "no career plan" and confirmed that he dreamed of one day being a coach. At the mention of a passage on a bench in Ligue 1, Zizou the shy has definitely closed: “I can not answer this question. I don't have that thought. "

“With Zidane, you must never say never,” explains Frédéric Hermel. But no condition is met for him to coach OM in the near future. And in the short term, it even seems impossible to me. Zidane still has, however, in a Marseille garage, the Ferrari offered by the leaders of Juventus after winning the 1998 Golden Ball. But it will probably never be parked in the Commanderie car park.

* Zidane by Frédéric Hermel, published by Flammarion (2019)

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