Zinedine Zidane has resigned as Real Madrid manager with immediate effect, as demonstrated by media reports, just a short time after the club were beaten to the La Liga title by Atletico Madrid.
The Frenchman’s represented flight comes around the completion of a frustrating campaign for the 13-time European champions, who moreover lost to Chelsea in the Champions League semifinals as they fail to win a trophy unprecedented for 11 seasons. Italian football journalist Fabrizio Romano broke what he called “exclusive” news in a tweet which was gotten by Spanish games outlets including Madrid sports dailies Marca and AS, and the radio station Cadena Ser. An official announcement of his departure, said Romano, would be made “after a short time/days”.
Only 10 days earlier Zidane, who has a contract until 2022, denied media speculation that he had viably told his players that he would leave around the completion of the season. “How is it possible that I would be going to tell my players that I am going now? It’s totally bogus,” he said after a 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao. “I revolve around this season. There is a game left and we will give everything. I just thought what happens in this finale.” Regardless, perhaps clearly, he added: “The rest, we will see at the completion of the season.”
At whatever point avowed, it indicates the completion of Zidane’s second spell responsible for the Spanish beasts. The 1998 World Cup winner at first accepted control in January 2016 and guided Real to the 2017 La Liga title and an unprecedented full go-around of Champions League titles before suddenly halting on May 31, 2018. He returned in 2019, winning a second La Liga crown in 2020 and the Spanish Super Cup.