Fernandez: What Zidane is achieving is exceptional

• Former French star Luis Fernandez sings praises of Zinedine Zidane
• Believes a FIFA World Cup leader has “not been found wanting” during Real Madrid
• UEFA EURO 1984 leader tips Zindane for success during The Best FIFA Football Awards

French football fable Luis Fernandez is a loyal partner of a sport. The former midfielder can demeanour behind with honour on a 15-year career as a player, in further to over 20 years of knowledge as a coach. But during a finish of a day, there is zero he likes softened than to speak about a pleasing game.

And when Fernandez talks, people listen. After all, this is a male who won 60 general caps, played in a French side that triumphed during EURO 1984, carried a UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1996 while manager of Paris Saint-Germain, and has given achieved miracles in Spain during spells in assign of Athletic Bilbao, Espanyol and Real Betis.

Such is his adore for debating football that Fernandez has turn a informed voice on a radio. These days, he even presents his possess radio programme. And if there is one subject of review for that his unrestrained knows no bounds, it is Zinedine Zidane. Fernandez was there to see Zizou take his initial stairs in a veteran diversion during AS Cannes, approach behind in a early-90s, and looked on admiringly as he blossomed into one of a world’s biggest stars.

In a few days, his former dependent is in with a possibility of being crowned a world’s tip men’s manager for 2017 during The Best FIFA Football Awardsâ„¢.

It did not take much, therefore, for FIFA.com to convince Luis Fernandez to share his thoughts on a stream Real Madrid coach. “I don’t have a bad word to contend about a boy,” he warned as a review got underway. And, as we will see, he valid as good as his word.

FIFA.com: Luis, as your career came to an end, we common a AS Cannes sauce room with a immature midfielder who was only starting out: Zinedine Zidane. What do we remember about him behind then?
Luis Fernandez: Firstly, his family has always taught him a values of respect. You could see that in a sauce room from a word go, when he came to sight with a pros. He’s a kid who always wanted to learn and improve. Today, he’s still a same as when we used to play alongside him. He gives off an atmosphere of such serenity, of a immature actor with a aspiration to work, to succeed, to urge his skills, to listen.

I saw him when he was only starting out, and afterwards we saw him rise into a coach, into an ambassador, into a celebrity in a football world. He’s an well-developed man. Some people have judged him on a basement of one transformation on a margin of play [ed’s note – his sending-off in a final of a 2006 FIFA World Cup Germanyâ„¢] though that occurrence can't remove all a complacency he has brought us.

Out on a pitch, did he already have a good tactical sense? Or is that something he acquired once he motionless to turn a coach?
When you’re playing, we don’t unequivocally have a tactical sense. But he showed comprehension in a approach he played, in his transformation and his use of a ball. He already showed that ability to urge by tough work. He had his healthy skills, though he wanted to rise them. And though that, he wouldn’t have finished it. On a tactical side, he also softened by operative hard, by examination and listening. He’s someone who observes what’s going on around him. He’s not someone who looks down on others, or lectures them, or thinks he knows it all already. He’s someone who lives and breathes football, and who loves a game.

Félicitations à notre Zizou national! Bcp de monde doutait sur tes capacités à etre un grand entraineur. Auj, cela doit etre dur flow eux pic.twitter.com/oKUoNjdAQf

— Luis Fernandez (@Fernandez_beIN) June 4, 2017

Congratulations to a Zizou. Many people doubted your ability to be a coach. Today, they are substantially carrying a tough time.

When he started holding his coaching qualifications, and afterwards took assign of a Real Madrid B team, many pronounced that it was a mistake and that it wasn’t in his personality. Whereas we predicted, even behind then, that he would be a success.
Yes, though if we listen to all a nonsense that goes around… 80 per cent of what was pronounced about him totally missed a point. Lots of people have a bent to make their minds adult though even watchful to see how others get on, and to make pre-judgements on a basement of one aspect of their personalities. Out on a field, Zizou had character, even if there’s a side to him that’s some-more reserved, staid and calm. Certain people suspicion that he lacked personality, lacked character, and that he was going to be undermined by other people’s egos. He gave a doctrine to all those detractors who have that bent to decider though holding a time to observe.

Has Zidane’s success during Real Madrid come some-more simply since of his name, his past achievements and his aura during a club?
He unequivocally finished his symbol during a club. It’s ‘his club’, somewhere he has spent time as a player, as a sporting director, and as an ambassador. He’s an idol there. Before, there was Di Stefano; now it’s Zidane. In Spain, they adore these players who have left down in history, who uncover an affinity with their club. As a player, he won a European Cup. Then he became a coach, and he won them another European Cup. Imagine what a name Zidane means in Madrid! He’s a Real legend. He will always be a conspicuous figure. But what’s more, he has that ability to adapt. Thanks to his comprehension and his talent, he is constantly learning, constantly observing. He knows all about a club. At Real, he feels during home.

Was it easier to start out during Real Madrid, where he is operative with good players? Would he be as successful during a bar fighting relegation, or going by a proviso of reconstruction?
Some people say: “It’s easy, he’s operative exclusively with good players.” Since when was coaching good payers easy? What about those who went before him, and who didn’t have success with those good players? Firstly, he finished a right choice by holding a Castilla job. It’s not easy to manager a haven team. It was there he schooled how to take training sessions, how to ready properly. That gave him a possibility to find his feet, to develop, and to enhance his imagination before holding assign of a comparison team.

Zidane is one of a 3 finalists for The Best FIFA Men’s Coach, alongside Antonio Conte and Massimiliano Allegri. In your opinion, is he a best manager in a universe today? Or, in any case, softened than Allegri and Conte?
Of course! Their styles are different. we like Conte, someone who has a complement of play and an power that have brought him success while creation his symbol in Italy and England. Allegri, too. It wasn’t easy for him to follow in Conte’s footsteps during Juve, though he has finished well. Not everybody would have managed that. But a top form bar in a universe is Real Madrid. Real and Barça, let’s say. You’ve got Ronaldo and Messi and, in sequence to get a best out of them, we need a manager who can know them. we won’t name names, though that’s where others have been found wanting. Zizou hasn’t been found wanting. He’s won dual European titles and a Spanish championship – he’s bringing in prize after trophy.

For me, he’s a best manager in a world. He has been means to levy his ideas, his approach of thinking. He has blending to a organisation full of egos, and brought out a best in a immature players. Nobody mentions it, though he has authorised youngsters like Isco, Vazquez and Asensio to flourish, only as Ceballos, Mayoral and Nacho are now. That’s what is so illusory about his work too. The value of a manager can also be seen in his ability to move out a best in each player, not only a stars. It’s exceptional, what he’s achieving.

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