Raul explains why he didn’t expect his former Real Madrid teammate to become coach
Raul admits he was surprised by the decision of his former Real Madrid teammate Zinedine Zidane to become a coach.
Zidane took the charge of Real Madrid, after the sacking of Rafa Benitez in January and led the team to the Champions league glory.
Raul explains why he didn’t expect his former Real Madrid teammate to become coach
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Raul says he wasn’t expecting Zidane to become coach due to his uncommunicative nature, and he is left impressed with work of his ex -colleague as Real Madrid manager, in which his opinion is the most difficult task in the football due to extensive pressure from the media.
“Zidane? It was just a feeling I had. He was uncommunicative…I don’t know. I didn’t see him as a Coach. Sometimes you see players discuss aspects of the game with others and he didn’t. But it was like a process. He was in different areas of Madrid, then with Carlo Ancelotti…in the end he decided he wanted to be a Coach,” Raul noted.
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“He went to Castilla and the opportunity has come. Now they’re all very happy. And what I can say is that since he joined the first team I see him more as a Coach.
“Why is it so difficult to coach Madrid? There’s a lot of media pressure and above all, to manage the dressing room with so many important players in which everyone thinks they should play, but, on the other hand, that’s how it should be, because it’s not easy. Zidane has done a great job in that. He’s already experienced it with Carlo Ancelotti.
“His great success was to make the players believe in their quality and to send the message that by everyone working together, it would be easy to win the Champions League and difficult for anyone to beat them.”