“I always believe that it’s important to play attractive, but balanced football, and I am going to work to get that on the pitch”.
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Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and the club’s other star names were put through their paces following Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Valencia. “Guardiola is Guardiola, and I am going to try and do it the best I can”, he said.
“Today we have made the hard decision, particularly for me, to terminate the contract of Rafa Benítez as first-team coach”, Ancelotti said in a statement. I will not compare myself with anyone.
Zidane took training for the first time on Tuesday and later held his first news conference as Madrid boss in which he promised attacking football, but paid tribute to the “fantastic” job Benitez had done.
His former rival, Pep Guardiola, was in a similar position when he took over the helm at Barcelona in 2008.
The 43-year-old pointed out that his meeting with the players on the first day in the new job was important as well as simple, and admitted that they seemed happy after the first encounter.
The Frenchman’s quest with Real Madrid will start next Saturday with a game against Deportivo La Coruna at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Real Madrid fan Rafael Nadal has extended his support over the appointment of new manager Zinedine Zidane, saying that he deserves to lead one of the most important clubs in the world.
Some reports suggested that the Welshman was considering a Premier League return after being left “devastated” by the sacking of Rafael Benitez.
“When you play with his this shirt everything is real and to win is absolutely essential”.
That is not to say Zidane hasn’t gone in search of some.
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Zidane had been working as manager of the club’s B team Castilla and inherits a side now third in the Primera Division table and which faces Roma in the last 16 of the Champions League next month. I have motivation and I have hope. “It will be a challenge, and a tough one, but it is one I’m looking forward to”, he said, as quoted by Federation Internationale de Football Association. “That will help us”.
