Former Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane named the IFFHS Award of The World’s Best Club Coach in 2018; World Champion coach Didier Deschamps won the World’s Best National Coach award.
Former IFFHS World Playmaker (2006) Zinedine Zidane left one time more all his opponents behind to annex for the second consecutive year the IFFHS Award of The World’s Best Club Coach in 2018.
Like last year, Zidane concluded his season with a Champions League success resulting in 296 points from 90 football experts around the World, leaving a huge gap to runner-up Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool FC – 109 points) and third placed Josep Guardiola (Manchester City FC – 105 points).
Zidane became the first footballer to win dual crowns of Playmaker and Coach last year. In 2018, he became the first coach to win three times the European Cup in his first three seasons and Real Madrid the first team ever to win the UEFA Champions League three times in a row.
With 9 titles in 879 days at the head of Real Madrid, he became a Legend in the World’s Football also as a coach ! Because he is since a long time a Legend as Player ! Respect Monsieur Zidane .
Jürgen Klopp and Josep Guardiola took place on the podium with excellent performances with their english teams .4 of the last Awards winners (Zidane, Guardiola, Simeone, Heynckes) took place in the World’s Top 7 !
After Aimé Jacquet (1998), Roger Lemerre (2000) and Jacques Santini (2003), Didier Deschamps is the fourth French Coach to win the Award of The World’s Best National Coach in 2018.
Despite tough opposition from Croatia’s Zlatko Dalic, football experts from 90 countries world wide had no hesitation in awarding Deschamps a massive 304 pooints well ahead of newcomer Dalic second on 198 and Belgium’s Martinez on 84.
The French National team won this year the World Cup in Russia with great performances and young talent players. Didier Deschamps indicated one more time that he gave the chance to the new generation to built not only a good playing football team but more an efficient team to win. At the end, « the winner takes it all « , Didier Deschamps realized it with success.
Didier Deschamps is the third player World Champion to become also World Champion as coach after Mario Zagalo and Franz Beckenbauer.
SoumikMajiSnr
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Where is Mourinho
Yuhbeklntz
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liverpoli
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Both managers have done excellently through their managerial careers
mighty96red
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great player great coach.
LIONHEART2001
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The truth is that zidane is the person who actually deserves this award cuz he won the champions league for the third time in a row something that no coach has attempted even two times back to back making him one of the most successful managers at their carrer beginning and he was even one of the brain work behind france world cup victory any person that they gives that is not zizou doesn't deserve it
Saucy11
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Something I can agree with IFFHS unlike the last time
Rohingya94
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Zidane is best couch also he is best player in the world.
Munach
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Why not this man after beating juventus 😂