Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is not ruling out the possibility of managing his country’s national team, Les Blues in future despite saying he’s focused on his current job at Madrid.
“If Didier leaves and I’m still here, the first person I’d see would be Zidane. I have a really good relationship with him.” FFF president, Le Graet told RTL, via ESPN.
“My relationship with [FFF president Noel] Le Graet is good. We’ve known each other since 1998,” Zidane said of Real Madrid’s La Liga game against Valencia.
“It could be an objective one day. I’ve said it before, when I started coaching 10 years ago, that it’s something that could be a possibility one day.”
“Right now I’m here,” he said. “I’m enjoying what I’m doing here. In the future we’ll see, you never know. But my mind is on the day-to-day here at Real Madrid.”
Le Graet has been in charge of the French federation since 2011 and is the leading candidate for the forthcoming election as he hopes to secure a fourth term.
Zidane and Deschamps were teammates when France lifted the World Cup on home soil in 1998 and Deschamps coached France to another triumph in Russia in 2018.
Deschamps contract at France runs out at the end of 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the same time Zidane’s contract at Madrid runs out though multiple reports in France suggests Zidane would step aside at the end of the current season.