In the present week, the Real Madrid announced the return of Zinedine Zidane to the bench madridista to assume the control of the project taking the witness of Santiago Solari, that did not achieve to raise to the team after the bad beginning of campaign. Surprisingly, the last informations aim to that the French was not the first option of Florentino Pérez.
Ramón Calderón, that went president of the Real Madrid between the years 2006 and 2009, ensured in his go through the microphones of Idols that Zidane was not the favourite of the cúpula white, but it was José Mourinho the first candidate to occupy the bench of Santiago Bernabéu. However, according to his informations, the changing room madridista would have vetoed the option of the Portuguese.
"The first option was Mourinho. And Mourinho was the one who went to come to the Real Madrid because it is the only trainer to the that the president respects", affirmed Calderón, of conclusive form and without housing doubts on the idea that Florentino Pérez had for the Real Madrid of the next years, that included to the technician luso.
According to the words of Calderón, the president madridista sees in Mourinho the ideal trainer by his strong personality. "Florentino sees to the Portuguese trainer like a shield, sees it as to the prime of Zumosol, is the only that says what anybody dares, the one who blames to the referees, to the press, to the one who was, this that usually does not say ", ensured the ex mandator merengue.
The players vetoed to Mourinho
Calderón ensured that the return of José Mourinho did not arrive to produce by the firm posture of the changing room of the Real Madrid, that denied to need a trainer of the style of the Portuguese, considered hand-held hard. An alike case to the sucedido with Antonio Conte does hardly some months, when Julen Lopetegui was ceased.
"The players plant , already planted when it wanted to bring to Antonio Conte because it did lacking hard hand. When Antonio Conte was proposed, he ensured that it had to come a trainer with hard hand, but he does not darse, or if it has darse# cuenta is that it has not thought it well and the players have remembered it to him that this type of trainers do not do fault", sentenced Calderón.