‘I am here, I am the coach of Madrid’ – Zidane over his future at Santiago Bernebeu

On Friday Zinedine Zidane tried to rule out all uncertainty regarding his future with Real Madrid. The French claimed that next campaign he will stay as the boss of Real Madrid despite loss to Manchester City in the last-16 of Champions League.

Manchester City progressed 4-2 on aggregate to the quarterfinals of the Champions League following a 2-1 win upsetting Real Madrid.

However, Zinedine Zidane side performed well in the La Liga, winning their first La Liga since 2017.

When questioned whether he intended to be in command of the Los Blancos in 2020-21, Zidane gave a defensive answer.

Zidane on being the boss for the next season, told the reporters:

“Well, I’m here, I’m Madrid’s coach until something happens which is out of the ordinary. I’m here, of course.

“You don’t have to think anything. I am the coach of Madrid, and that’s it.

“There are no more questions to ask in this regard. Now we are all going to rest and we will return to have a great season.”

Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus both scored, Madrid only scoring on the single occasion through Karim Benzema in the 2-1 contest.

Manchester City were the winners of the clash as Raphael Varane howlers gifted City both the goals that they scored.

Zidane is proud of the team despite the loss against Manchester City:

“We need to be proud. I’m certainly very proud of what we’ve achieved,” he added.

“We can’t, when we lose, be happy. The players aren’t happy, for sure. But what we can be proud of is that we have had a great season.

“The key today was to give everything on the pitch and that’s what we did, we were just missing a little something, I don’t know what.

“I think we’ve still got to be happy with the season. We will see what will happen next season. For now, we rest a little.” – he said.

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