Others are better than me - Zidane modest after winning Best FIFA Men's Coach award
A humble Zinedine Zidane says he can't be viewed as the best mentor in world football as he is as yet unpracticed, in spite of winning consecutive Champions League titles with Real Madrid.
Zidane asserted the FIFA Best Men's Coach grant on Monday, making it a Madrid twofold as Cristiano Ronaldo pipped Barcelona's Lionel Messi to the player's prize.
Chelsea's Antonio Conte and Juventus head mentor Massimiliano Allegri - whose side lost to Los Blancos in last season's Champions League last - were beaten to the honor by the Frenchman.
In any case, while Zidane picked not to name the mentors he rates above himself, he demands he is too new to administration to be the world's best mentor.
"I don't have any acquaintance with, it's you [the media] who discuss it," Zidane said in front of Thursday's Copa del Rey tie at Fuenlabrada. "I acknowledge this honor and I trust it is remunerate for the work we have done as such far.
"We have won numerous things with this group and at last I am cheerful, I am not there to state that I don't merit that. I merit it, I got it, however the inquiry is whether I'm the best mentor on the planet. I say no and that is it.
"I think there are other people who are better and that is it. In the event that inside 10 years I am preparing and winning, we can talk, yet not right now.
"I couldn't care less, I would prefer not to know anything about that. What I think about is work, appreciating what I do and that's it. There are other people who get a kick out of the chance to discuss it, not me.
"Zidane as a player is superior to Zidane as a mentor. I have been playing for a long time and I just have been filling in as mentor for year and a half."
The Copa del Rey is one of only a handful couple of significant respects to have escaped Zidane amid his vocation as both a player and a mentor, yet the Frenchman is expecting to revise that this season.
"Winning the glass isn't something individual, it's a group thing," Zidane said. "We're eager to play in it, as we jump at the chance to play in each opposition. I don't think of it as a minor trophy, for me it's one of the trophies that we can win and that is our goal.
"Our aspiration is to win it since we can. We need to give everything and put in a decent execution tomorrow. That is it. When you wear this current club's shirt, you're going out to win each diversion, official matches and friendlies.
"I'd play an indistinguishable group in a coincidental match from I would in a two-legged tie. I'd do likewise. I have something in my mind thus do my players. I have confidence in what we're doing and it doesn't rely upon what occurs in amusements. We put stock in what we do and we'll not transform anything.
"Many individuals have a sentiment about whether it ought to be an erratic match or a two-legged tie, and I realize that in different nations they play an irregular match, yet here we play two matches and what I consider it has no effect."
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