Zidane Madrid did not win three Champions … it was C …

From 2016 to 2018, the Real Madrid he was the absolute monarch of the Champions League With Zinedine Zidane on the bench, the whites managed to defeat the Atletico de Madrid in 2016 (for penalties), to the Turin Juventus in 2017 (4-1) and at Liverpool in 2017 (3-1). Or, what is the same, the only three seasons that the French coach directed the team, the ‘orejona rose.

After the final against the ‘red’ team, Zidane decided to leave the team, being Julen Lopetegui his successor With the Basque coach, the team did not work and, after a 5-1 against Barca at Camp Nou, he was fired and replaced by Santiago Solari. With the Argentine, the thing did not improve and the white box was eliminated from the Champions League in the round of 16, also being out of the Copa del Rey and of the fight for The league.


With all that, Florentino Perez He convinced Zidane to take command of the team again, trusting that the French would fix everything but, since his return – almost a year ago – nothing has been fixed. Madrid is out of the Copa del Rey, needs a miracle to overcome 1-2 of the Manchester City in the Bernabeu and is second in LaLiga behind the most disastrous Barca of the last 12 years.

Many referred to Real Madrid that won the three Champions League as ‘the Madrid of Zidane’, but perhaps they did not notice that those three championships were not achieved because the team had a solid and convincing game, but because there was a player who was able to pull the car with important goals at key moments. Yes, we are talking about Cristiano Ronaldo.


Zidane has returned to Real Madrid and, after an investment of 333 million euros in signings the whites are, if possible, worse than last season at this point. Perhaps the time has come for Madrid to recognize that the only burning nail that the French coach took and that led him to repeat the European throne three times was Cristiano Ronaldo, who is now missing more than ever.
They believed that without Cristiano everything would be the same …

Cristiano Ronaldo averaged 50 goals per season, So it seems absurd that someone thought at some point that selling him was a good idea. Now, he misses a player who covered the tremendous shortcomings that Real Madrid already had in 2016, when he began his winning cycle. Whites are now a shadow of what they were. A shadow with wet gunpowder. Now more than ever, we must recognize the Madrid of the three Champions as ‘the Madrid of Cristiano, and not that of Zidane.