French football legend Zinedine Zidane confirmed that he still has the "torch" to continue his coaching career, despite his absence from the game for a year after his departure from Real Madrid, the European and Spanish champions.
Zidane left Real Madrid with his desire, ending his second term with the royal team at the end of the 2020-2021 season, after leading him to crown 3 consecutive Champions League titles during his first term, knowing that he won 11 titles during his time with Real.
News reports have linked Zidane since then to taking over the leadership of a number of teams, including in France, where he topped the list of candidates to succeed Argentine Mauricio Pochettino in the training of the French team Paris Saint-Germain, and is also considered a possible successor to Didier Deschamps, coach of the French national team after the World Cup in Qatar this general.
With the increasing prospects of Saint-Germain signing Nice coach Christophe Galtier to take over the technical leadership of the French capital team, it seems that Zidane will continue to move away from the round witch.
But the talented player, who led France to the World Cup title in 1998, hopes to return to training again without having to jump straight into any available job.
"I want to continue (training), I still carry this torch, football is my passion, but I am happy now, and that is the most important thing," Zidane, 50, told the French program "Telefoot".
Zidane talked about the "got" he made against Italian Marco Materazzi during the two teams' match in the 2006 World Cup final in Germany, which caused him to be expelled from the match that ended with Italy's victory over France on penalties to win the World Cup for the fourth time in its history.
Zidane affirmed his repudiation of the head-butting, saying, "I am not proud of what I have done, but that is part of my journey, even in a person's life, not everything goes perfectly."