Zinedine Zidane Named Manager of the Year 2020 Season
Real Madrid boss, Zinedine Zidane, has been named the best manager in the world for the 2019/20 season by French newspaper L’Equipe, beating Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola to the title. The 48-year-old won this year’s La Liga title, he has won three Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups, two Club World Cups and a Spanish Super Cup during his first spell at Real Madrid before he surprisingly left the club in 2018.
He came back to the club just ten months after his departure and has gone on to win the La Liga title with Champions League still in his eyes as they match to play Manchester City on Friday. Zinedine Zidane surprisingly beat current Champions League winners manager Jurgen Klopp and also Manchester City boss Guardiola to win the best manager of the year.
Klopp, Guardiola and Zidane are the top three managers to be nominated for the award there was no room for Jose Mourinho the special one who the L’Equipe described as having a “fading image and magic.” They wrote about Zidane, saying: “He is a coach who has experienced only one club, and quite rarely defeat.”
“A coach who did what none of his predecessors did, win three Champions Leagues in a row (2016, 2017, 2018), who was able to return to the footsteps of his own glory and question everything to become the new Spanish champion with Real Madrid last month.” They also said Klopp has “charisma” and described him as the “fashionable man” and “favourite of many.”
“Guardiola has something else, his dogma, his permanent research, the virtuosity of his collective game, dizzying constructions, his consistency (198 points in two seasons from 2017 to 2019), but he does not have everything, and chooses his central defenders as his attackers or midfielders.’