Zidane new Real Madrid Castilla manager

Lucas Hood

http://www.realmadrid.com/en/news/2014/06/zidane-to-manage-castilla-in-the-2014/2015-season

Zinedine Zidane will manage Castilla next season. Zizou, who was Carlo Ancelotti’s first squad assistant coach this year, will start a new stage of his career at Real Madrid. Zidane will be joined by youth coach Santiago Sánchez and has already started working on future plans for the reserve team squad.

greendom

That sounds like a bit of a demotion or at least just a sideways move.

Chucky the tree

greendom wrote: »

That sounds like a bit of a demotion or at least just a sideways move.

I'd call it more progression in his career. He now has a chance to implement his own ideas/tactics/style etc than he would have as an assistant coach.

greendom

Chucky the tree wrote: »

I'd call it more progression in his career. He now has a chance to implement his own ideas/tactics/style etc than he would have as an assistant coach.

I suppose it puts in place a career path for him to take over from Ancellotti, even though he'll be managing at a much less pressured level

geeky

I'd agree that it's a progression rather than a demotion, allowing him to implement his own ideas, tactics and style without the pressure of a first-team role - but with competitive football.

Carlo won't stick around forever - it's just not his M.O., and I say that as a Chelsea fan who wishes he was still managing us. This allows Zidane, his potential successor, to cut his teeth as part of the organisation without being a lightning rod in the dugout for press speculation. Also, Zidane will be working with some of the young players that the club (presumably) hope will be stepping up to the first team when he's taking charge.

From the outside, it seems like an uncharacteristic example of intelligent long-term planning.

greendom

greendom wrote: »

I suppose it puts in place a career path for him to take over from Ancellotti, even though he'll be managing at a much less pressured level

geeky wrote: »

I'd agree that it's a progression rather than a demotion, allowing him to implement his own ideas, tactics and style without the pressure of a first-team role - but with competitive football.

Carlo won't stick around forever - it's just not his M.O., and I say that as a Chelsea fan who wishes he was still managing us. This allows Zidane, his potential successor, to cut his teeth as part of the organisation without being a lightning rod in the dugout for press speculation. Also, Zidane will be working with some of the young players that the club (presumably) hope will be stepping up to the first team when he's taking charge.

From the outside, it seems like an uncharacteristic example of intelligent long-term planning.

Akin to Barcelona hiring Luis Enrique who had experience with Barcelona B, Roma and Celta Vigo before taking the top job at Barca perhaps?

MisterAnarchy

greendom wrote: »

That sounds like a bit of a demotion or at least just a sideways move.

Its a big promotion.
He was little more than a glorified kit man under Ancelotti ,he had very little input.

john moloney

I think it is a great move from Madrid with looking to the future with the obvious assumption that zidane will take over from Ancelotti. I think he would have a lot to give the young guns and he could oversee a lot of young talent and graft them into world stars including his son!

geeky

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Akin to Barcelona hiring Luis Enrique who had experience with Barcelona B, Roma and Celta Vigo before taking the top job at Barca perhaps?

Well I was tempted to say they were taking a leaf out of barca's book! But the Germans adopted a similar approach grooming Loew for his current role

eagle eye

Weird to see him do this. He seemed to want to be a top man in FIFA for a while and now seems to have totally given up on that idea and wants to coach instead or maybe his goal is to end up as President of the club.

COYVB

Maybe he's waiting til FIFA cleans up a little