Zinedine Zidane responds to the call to save Real Madrid from darkness | Sid Lowe

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With infighting rife, the man who brought Madrid such riches in Europe has made a remarkable return to the Bernabéu

Darkness descended on Real Madrid, the metaphor visiting them on a Sunday night in Valladolid, light not let in until the following evening when he returned. The week after they lost it all, the man returned who won it all. Zinedine Zidane is back. Less than a year since he walked out, insisting that this was a “see you later” not a “goodbye”, he has walked back in again. Just how different the place is, just how bad it had got in his absence, was shown by seven days in which it all slipped through their fingers. Shown too, by the last game before he relented and said yes, Santi Solari’s final game in charge: a match that mattered so much partly because it didn’t matter at all.

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Written by Sid Lowe
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/mar/11/zinedine-zidane-responds-to-the-call-to-save-real-madrid-from-darkness under the title “Zinedine Zidane responds to the call to save Real Madrid from darkness | Sid Lowe”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.