Zidane is a candidate to replace Tite in the Brazilian team

Zinedine Zidane has entered the list of candidates to replace coach Tite at the helm of the Brazilian team.

This Sunday, the French newspaper L’Équipe said that the former striker had become a candidate for the vacancy by fulfilling the basic requirements that the CBF dome would require.

According to the traditional French periodical, Zidane’s profile seduces CBF because he is a foreign coach who is free on the market and has extensive experience.

The former player has never coached a national team but won the respect of the market as a coach for leading Real Madrid to three Champions League titles.

Zidane is known to Brazilian fans for being the national team’s tormentor in two World Cups.

In 1998, he led France to a 3-0 victory over Brazil in the final of that World Cup. In 2006, now more experienced, he was outstanding in the 1-0 triumph in the quarterfinals.

At 50 years old, he served as a coach in only one team, Real Madrid, between 2016 and 2021, with a brief interruption during this period.

He won everything he could at the Spanish club, including La Liga and the Fifa Club World Cup twice.

The CBF has avoided expressing itself about the future commander of the Brazilian national team.

When it comes to the public, it denies any name or specific search and denies possible intermediaries.

If they are interested in Zidane, the Brazilian entity will have the French Football Federation as its main competitor, which has already indicated an interest in having Zidane replace Didier Deschamps.

Without citing sources of information, L’Équipe also published other foreign coaches have the profile sought by CBF, such as the Argentines Marcelo Gallardo and Mauricio Pochettino, the German Thomas Tuchel, and Spaniards Roberto Martínez and Rafa Benítez.

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