{"id":358983,"date":"2021-05-31T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358983"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:19:27","slug":"zidane-pens-open-letter-to-real-madrid-fans-after-dumping-laliga-club-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358983","title":{"rendered":"Zidane pens open letter to Real Madrid fans after dumping LaLiga club for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"
Zinedine Zidane has broken his silence on why he decided to leave Real Madrid, revealing what hurt him the most about his second spell in charge.
\nThe 48-year-old returned to the Santiago Bernabeu only 10 months after walking away in 2018.
\nZidane then led Los Blancos to a 2019\/20 LaLiga title.
\nHe,however, left Madrid again after failing to win a trophy in the 2020\/2021 campaign.
\nIn an open letter to Real fans, Zidane claimed he had stepped down because he feels president Florentino Perez has lost faith in him.
\n\u201cIn May 2018 I left because after two and a half years, with so many victories and so many trophies, I felt the team needed a new approach to stay at the very highest level. Right now, things are different. I\u2019m leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term.
\n\u201cI understand football and I know the demands of a club like Real Madrid. I know when you don\u2019t win, you have to leave. But with this a very important thing has been forgotten, everything I built day-to-day has been forgotten, what I brought to my relationships with the players, with the 150 people who work with and around the team.
\n\u201cI\u2019m a natural-born winner and I was here to win trophies, but even more important than this are the people, their feelings, life itself and I have the sensation these things have not been taken into account, that there has been a failure to understand that these things also keep the dynamics of a great club going. To some extent, I have even been rebuked for it.
\n\u201cI want there to be respect for what we have achieved together. I would have liked my relationship with the club and the president over the past few months to have been a little different from that of other coaches. I wasn\u2019t asking for privileges, of course not, just a little more recollection. These days the life of a coach in the dugout at a big club is two seasons, little more.
\n\u201cFor it to last longer the human relationships are essential, they are more important than money, more important than fame, more important than everything. They need to be nurtured. That\u2019s why it hurt me so much when I read in the press, after a defeat, that I would be sacked if I didn\u2019t win the next game. It hurt me and the whole team because these deliberately leaked messages to the media negatively influenced the squad, they created doubts and misunderstandings.
\n\u201cLuckily I had these amazing lads who were with me to the death. When things turned ugly, they saved me with magnificent victories. Because they believed in me and knew I believed in them. Of course, I\u2019m not the best coach in the world, but I\u2019m able to give everyone, whether it\u2019s a player, a member of the coaching staff or any employee, the strength and confidence they need in their job.
\n\u201cI know perfectly well what a team needs. Over these 20 years at Madrid I\u2019ve learnt that you, the fans, want to win, of course, but above all you want us to give our all: the coach, the staff, the employees and of course the players. And I can assure you we\u2019ve given 100% of ourselves to this club,\u201d he wrote in an open letter to the club\u2019s supporters, according to AS.
\n(Daily Post)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zinedine Zidane has broken his silence on why he decided to leave Real Madrid, revealing what hurt him the most about his second spell in charge. The 48-year-old returned to the Santiago Bernabeu only 10 months after walking away in 2018. Zidane then led Los Blancos to a 2019\/20 LaLiga title. He,however, left Madrid again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[12210,5278,5845],"class_list":["post-358983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-perez","tag-real-madrid","tag-zidane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}