After Tite’s farewell, the Brazilian team continues without a defined coach for 2023 and, according to the French newspaper L’Equipe, Zinedine Zidane is a name that pleases the CBF and could be one of the candidates for the vacant position. The former player has been without a club since he left Real Madrid in 2021.
According to the French newspaper, the coach has the necessary requisites to be able to lead the national team and, therefore, the name is pleasing. However, the ex-player’s signing depends on how the possibility of Didier Deschamps leaving the French national team develops, as Zidane is quoted to take over for the finalists at the last two World Cups.
Zidane has only coached one club, Real Madrid. In the four years that he coached the Spanish team, divided into two passes, the Frenchman was three times Champions League champion in a row. The former player also won two Spanish Leagues, two Club World Cups, two European Super Cups and two Spanish Super Cups.
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As a player, the former midfielder is well known to the Brazilian national team. Zidane was Brazil’s villain in the 1998 World Cup final, as the then France number 10 scored twice in his side’s 3-0 win. In 2006, at the World Cup held in Germany, he stood out against Amarelinha in the quarterfinals and eliminated the Brazilians.
In addition to Zidane, other European managers have been mentioned as possible replacements for Tite. Spaniard Carlos Ancelotti, currently at Real Madrid, was the most considered, despite him denying the possibility of leaving his club to take over the Selection. In recent days, José Mourinho, Portuguese coach of Roma, has also become a possibility.
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