Call, derby and Karius horns. What were Zidan’s winnings in the Champions League
When less than two and a half years ago he was taking over Realo, after Rafael Benitez had been dismissed, it seemed like a big jump from the reserve Castilla. It was Zidan’s first big coaching joke.
It turned out that leadership made unexpectedly brilliant decisions.
Zidane was a legend already as a player and immortality as a coach. With Realem he won nine trophies for a short period of time, the second best achievement in the history of the Madrid Grand Club. More successful was Miguel Muñoz, who won fourteen different cups during the fourteen years (1960-74). With the last one, Zidane celebrated just five days ago, with Real winning the Champions League for the third consecutive time.What were his winning evenings in this competition?
Just over half-time, Zidane showed his genius.
On the limit of lime, Robert Carlos’s center fell to him, the French midfielder with the fifth on his back extended, and with his weaker left pushed the balloon to the upper corner. The unstoppable shot is one of the best goals in the history of the Champions League, Real then secured a 2-1 win and Zidane first raised the famous cup.
A Real beat him at the end of May 2016 for the second time. But it was not easy – he was better in the first half and led by Captain Sergio Ramos, but after a change in sides, Atlético improved.After Antoine Griezmann’s penalty wounded, Real was defensive, but he was unable to keep up with Yannick Carrasco for a 1-1 win over the penalty. He made the most important part in the penultimate Cristiano Ronaldo series.
And Zidane became the seventh man to dominate the Champions League both as a player and as a coach. “I dreamed of this moment,” he said exactly 145 days after Real took over as the coach. After the first half in which Ronald’s trench responded with a goddess shot over his head, Mario Mandžukič, the second act was just Realu.
The opponent almost did not let himself, after an hour of play twice hit.For the twelfth victory in the best soccer club competition in the world, Real Casemiro and Ronald directed the final 4: 1 alternating Marco Asensio. For winning 3: 1, he also owed the giant mistakes of his goalie goalkeeper Lorise Karius. The Spanish club literally donated the first and third goals – first shot Karim Benze’s foot, then released a long shot of the alternating Gareth Bale.
The Welsh substitute was the final hero, twenty minutes before the third goal of the famed scissors he returned to Real knowledge.An instant comparison was made with the famous Zidan game.
“Cristian’s goal, Bale and my are three goals that are forever written down in history,” Zidane did not even mention Ronald’s acrobatic hit from the Juventus quarterfinals. Three triumphs in the Champions League have only two other coaches Bob Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti, neither one of them in the series like Zidane.
Immediately after the final, he called his team an extraordinary, a few days he decided that the team needed a change.
