Real Madrid’s manager has never lost a Champions League knockout tie but Manchester City’s rarely loses at the Bernabéu
“I’m not going to tell you what he told me,” Zinedine Zidane said smiling broadly, a glint in his eye, “but it was very, very interesting.” Whatever it was, it worked. In March 2015, when the Real Madrid manager was still doing his Uefa B licence and coaching Castilla, the club’s second team, he travelled to Munich with a small group of former players finding their way in management, among them his former France teammates Claude Makélélé, Willy Sagnol and the former Liverpool winger Bernard Diomède. There, they spent two days with Pep Guardiola.
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Written by Sid Lowe in Madrid
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/26/zinedine-zidane-hour-of-truth-old-friend-pep-guardiola-real-madrid-manchester-city-champions-league under the title “Invincible Zidane faces ‘hour of truth’ against his old friend Guardiola”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
