Real Madrid have sacked Rafael Benitez and named Zinedine Zidane as the new coach of the “Los Merengues”
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said: “I am here to say that the board has just decided, in a difficult decision, especially for me, to end contract of Rafa as first-team coach”
Zidane was born in Marseille, France, of Kabyle Amazigh origin. his parents emigrated to Paris from the village of Aguemoune in the Berber-speaking region of Kabylie in northern Algeria in 1953 before the start of the Algerian War.