Topic: ⚽ UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany ⚽ - Qualifiers - page 249. (Read 46401 times)

Yes, maybe he doesn't want to do anything. He could continue to manage Real Madrid if he wanted. Or if any team in the Premier League had made him an offer, he would have accepted it. Zinedine Zidane may not be focusing on managing a team right now, but I believed he could achieve great success with the French national team. He could be an important coach for France. Since he manages many stars, he can easily manage the star players in the French national team because he is also a star.

I do not think that he will. Dude made it pretty clear that he doesn't want to manage, and while managing a national team would mean a lot lesser games compared to a club team, it would still not make sense. If he wants to manage then he can manage almost half of the world easily, and probably get the job in the other half of the world as well if he pushes for it, so going for France doesn't make sense. Don't get me wrong, he would be perfect for the job and there is nothing wrong with that, I am just saying that we are going to look at something that will change things on the long run.

I believe that the best thing we could do right now is let dude have his retirement and enjoy it, he doesn't want to do anything at all.

If Zidane receives an offer from the French national team, I think he will accept it. He is a legend of France and his coaching experience was immense. We haven't seen him at the head of a team for a long time. Why shouldn't we see him in charge of the French national team? I think he will accept it and play in the matches as the head of the team. They are also one of the favorites for Euro 2024. He can do wonders with the last World Cup finalists, France.

It seems like all of this is just rumor because Phillippe Diallo President of the French Football Federation (FFF) will not bring in Zidane as France coach, they still have enough trust and confidence in Didier Deschamps, who has been France coach for several season.
Zidane is indeed an experienced coach and may be able to make France better, but in reality there has been no decision or official statement regarding Zidane arrival in the Frence national team.
And haven't these rumors been around since 2022 after the World Cup was finished, France failed and there were rumors circulating about Zidane arrival as coach but until now there has been nothing to show that all the reports are true.
Plus, the FFF has made statement regarding this, so I doubt that Zidane will become France coach in the near future to be able to lead France to the 2026 World Cup.

For other European teams such as Bayern Munich, Manchester United and also Juventus, currently they are very much associated with Zidane and of course they are the teams that want to be able to employ Zidane as coach there.

I would guess that no matter what team or what level he manages, he will get the most out of that club. That doesn't mean success right away, of course he could lose too but even if he loses, you would not have the question of "what if" in your mind when you manages a team. This is why it's quite important to make him a manager of any team.

This could be a national team, and France would of course make the most sense, plus they are a good team so if you make Zidane the manager of France, then you can guarantee that they will win the Euro. But if he wants to manage a club team, then that would still be good and he could make the most out of any situation. Dude won 3 UCL in a row, how many managers could ever say that?

We all have heard a lot of stories about Zidane. And recently we also have heard a lot about him coming back to manage a team. But most of them had been rumors and did not have any base. To say that he will be able to do really good with the France national team is probably not a very bad idea to have. After all, he has been able to manage Real Madrid really well. Of course, there is a big difference between club football and national team football. But I think he has shown enough to prove that he will be a capable coach. But the bigger question in this situation in my opinion is probably, is he actually going to take the job?

Didier Deschamps can bringing France in the right track that during train this team he can able to makes France performance is quite stable for almost every big tournaments and gets several trophies from it and indeed after France was failed on World Cup 2022 many people will thought Didier Deschamps will be replaced by other manager and Zidane names was appears as strong candidate moreover Zidane personally has been said he probably will thinking to return to the football world if France federation give him chances to taking over manager position but in fact this rumour never happend because France Football Federation give contract extension to Didier Deschamps until 2026

Recently Phillippe Diallo as the president of France Football Federation has been make a statement that whatever the outcomes of Euro 2024 will be whether France will gets the trophy or not but Didier Deschamps position will be safe at least until World Cup 2026 and France will be into group D with Netherlands, Poland and Austria and if we see based on France performance during qualification stages i am sure they will be qualified to the next round even my prediction is France will be qualified as group champion

They were lucky to beat Wales on penalties, but if you look at their group at the EURO, that's where their luck ended. If they can somehow play against Austria, then the Netherlands and France will be too difficult opponents for them. Frankly speaking, Austria is playing very well now, and if Poland doesn’t change anything, they won’t even be able to count on third place in the group.

Zidane can be a magnificent national team coach, he deserves to be France national coach because of his history in the nation and because of what he shows coaching Real Madrid, he proves he knows how to manage egos from big players, and believe me that is not an easy task.

Coaching clubs and national team certainly has its own challenges for a coach including Zidane, yes so far Zidane does have the ability to coach clubs quite well and as a player who has played for country and club, of course Zidane knows what a footballer really wants both when later coaching club or national teams, currently recognized or not,  Zidane's coaching ability has not been fully tested in my opinion, because his achievements coaching only in Madrid and at that time Madrid contained many star players so that made Zidane's job too easy.

Zidane lack of experience in coaching clubs may make France dare not risk the future in the hands of Zidane who is currently experienced just coaching 1 club, so France is more inclined to continue to give confidence to Didier Deschamps so far and even Zidane's opportunity to coach the national team has been tightly closed because Deschamps' contract expires until the 2026 World Cup is over.
I think what you are saying is true, because coaching a club is of course easier than coaching national team to win the euro or even the world cup, especially if we know that the national teams coaches only have a little time to prepare their team and of course they have to monitor players from one game to another in order to get players who suit the needs of the team and that of course Is not done by the club coach in my opinion.

Agreed that Zidane for France makes a lot of sense. I don't really rate him a lot as a club manager regardless of his success in Madrid, and I don't see any big clubs standing in line and hoping to sign him.

National football however would suit him perfectly, especially a team filled with stars not really interested in working together as a team.
Zidane is a huge character with historical significance for French national team so yeah - he might be the leader they need.

Deschamps has amazing results though - won the World Cup, was runner up on both World Cup and Euro and won the Nations league. He will reach 100 wins with the team soon with 65% win percentage - not sure it gets any better than this.

I think you are very right about Zidane to be the better coach for France because there is one more aspect that differentiates club football from national team football. In club football, coaches have an entire season to try things and tinker around with different options, trying to optimize certain tactics and strategies. In the national teams tactical and strategical aspects can't be tinkered around with that much and I think it is more about the authenticity and the aura of a coach than it is about the tactical genius of a coach. There is a limit to what a national coach can change within a short period of time. It's a lot about confidence and trust and Zidane is a coach who knows how to get his players on board and make them believe in themselves. That's why I think he would be the better choice instead of Deschamps. And 100% true that Deschamps doesn't let players play that he doesn't like.

The truth is that I would like Zidane to be able to take France to the World Cup and for them to be able to make a difference. I know that directing a country's national team is not the same as directing a club, but Zidane is a coach who is very good, he analyzes everything and knows what position to put each player in, so when we see that he can be the best, I would say yes, Deschamps is good, but I think that Deschamps does not play players that he does not like, in this aspect he is very similar to Luis Enrique with Spain and who is currently at PSG, because what he likes Deschamps did to Benzema in Qatar was something very evident.

Now things can be very different if you Start to see that things are managed by Zidane since for me he has much better experience, a team like France is a team with many stars, but I am sure that Zidane has better strategies and schemes to develop.

It's much much different with a national team, can be a bit of randomness. You don't know the team very well, they don't know you, you don't even know about injuries and if players play different, it's very much your luck. You have a known team, you don't have a known quality.

Zidane knows this. It's different to instil motivation for 11 players who are like family, eat sleep train together. But to have a group who only have nationality in common, no, not the same. Zidane is not so gutsy to take this risk

Didier Deschamps has been managing France for like 12 years... Such a long time isn't it?    In the meantime he achieved World Cup and Nations League titles once each. Do you think France board would think of replacing him if he doesn't become successful in Euro 2024? The reason why I ask this question is Zidane's interest in the job also.

Zidane hasn't managed any team for almost 3 years after leaving Real Madrid. He hasn't had any interest other than managing France since then.

I believe Zidane can make France more successful. Because he is really good at winning titles with teams that have a great squad. We have seen his work with Real Madrid like winning the CL title 3 years in a row. 

There are two things regards to that, first of all they had a player who should have won Ballon D'or, Lewandwoski is a world star and he can do so much for a team and he was capable of helping that team become so much better. Secondly, every nation has times when they are good and times when they are not good, sometimes things are even closer, remember Italy won euro and didn't even participated world cup.

These are all important stuff, and when you combine them together you realize that things are not that simple. I personally believe that we are going to end up seeing Poland get back to being great again, not that they were like cup winners ever, that is not the level I think they will reach, but they will be fine.

Yes their performance has been declining for a while now, there is no doubt about that. I am curious to see how they will be doing at the Euro 2024, but honestly I don't see even 1% chance for them to reach the knockout stage. They are in one group with France, the Netherlands and Austria. There is no need to talk about their realistic chances against France and the Netherlands. Maybe they can beat Austria and then perhaps tie a game against the Netherlands with some luck. But if they survive that group, I would be confused to say the least. They don't have enough balance in the team and they are still hoping for Lewandowski to be the one explosive player on the field to score several goals per game. But they will reach their limits against the two top teams in their group.

A few years ago Poland really looked much better, now they barely reached the Euro finals through the play-offs. And this despite the fact that their qualifying group was not so difficult, if the Czech Republic is still stronger now, then Albania was definitely a passable opponent, and the loss of points in the matches with Moldova seems like some kind of sensation. Lewandowski is already 35 years old, and he is no longer as dangerous as in previous years, although he continues to show good performances, but Poland has a weak middle line, and without this the attack cannot work fully.

I really don't understand either when a team has really good attackers but still becomes obstinate to play rather a defensive game.    Who is managing Poland, Mourinho?    The fans had better not be much expectant from Poland while playing a boring football. They literally qualified for Euro 2024 by 0 shot on target and penalty shootouts after.

Ronaldo has decided to help his teammates one more time to win another Euro title after the one in 2016. I wasn't expecting him to play for his national team this long truthfully. However I'm not feeling like Portugal will win the title. The qualifier performance could be tricky because their group was just too easy you know. 

I think apart from Lewandowski and Zielinski, the Polish national team doesn't have any particularly strong players. In one of the weakest groups with the Czech Republic and Albania Poland took only third place and won the Euro in the game with Wales and Poland could win only in a penalty shootout. Poland will clearly not be one of the favorites and in general in the group with France, Austria and the Netherlands even the 3rd place will be a success for the Polish national team.

The main problem of the Polish national team is not even in the players, but in the coaches and in the past the Polish national team also had quite a balanced squad of players, but the coaches were very weak.