Jacques bungert zidane biography

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French footballer Zinedine Zidane and PDG de Young and Rubicam Jacques Bungert at the Grameen Bank Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 8, 2006.
“He has natural charisma when he walks into a room,” his friend, fashion designer Jacques Bungert, once said.

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Zinedine Zidane the Manager: How Zizou positioned himself to lead Real Madrid

On a late March day, a bald man sits cross-legged on a stone wall in the corner of Bayern Munich’s Sabener Strasse training ground. Squinting slightly, with arms crossed, this wannabe coach studies the Bavarians’ every move intently.

As training ends, Bayern’s perma-permed centre-back Dante bounds over for an opportunistic photo, bypassing World Cup-winner Claude Makelele and ex-Roten  full-back Willy Sagnol. A couple of excitable youth-teamers follow suit. Xabi Alonso soon sidles by for a quick chat. Then Franck Ribery.

Even Pep Guardiola, the most revered of tacticians, comes across to say hi. A film crew swiftly descends on this follicly challenged pair, cameras clicking away. Makelele and Sagnol merely look on.

All this for a coaching novice, whose dugout experience comprises one year as an assistant manager plus two-thirds of a season in charge of a third-tier reserve team? Well, yes, but then it isn’t every day that Zinedine Zidane visits your training ground.

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What attracted people was his shyness; his winning, self-deprecating smile; his charm ... what my mother called his gentillesse, which is far more than kindness. His looks too. He was handsome but seemingly unaware of it; this wasn’t the kind of footballer you’d imagine preening for hours, transforming his body into an object of desire. In fact, he’d never looked a natural athlete, even after bulking up impressively while playing in Serie A. The early baldness, which he did nothing to hide, suited him and was yet another proof of his normality. He clearly loved his children; he loved children, period, as he’d shown in his work for several charities, including his own foundation. The very fact that he hardly ever gave interviews and stayed clear of the celebrity circus was proof of his humility. He was far more than the ideal footballer; he was the ideal son, father, husband, son-in-law. And he was a second-generation “immigrant” (a Kabyle, to boot—which, in the twisted collective psyche of mainstream, Caucasian France, made him some kind of super-Arab) who presented an unthreate

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Zinedine Zidane’s dream of coaching the French national team remains as strong as ever. Since leaving Real Madrid in 2021, the 1998 World Cup winner has made no secret of his desire to one day lead Les Bleus.

“I want to, of course. I hope to one day,” Zidane shared in 2022. With Didier Deschamps set to step down after the 2026 World Cup, Zidane continues to closely follow the team’s progress while maintaining his stance. According to Le Parisien, his ambition to take the helm has not wavered, despite enjoying his family life in Spain.

While Zidane remains publicly silent out of respect for Deschamps, his intentions are clear. Sources close to the former Ballon d’Or winner confirm his readiness to step in if offered the role, calling Les Bleus a key part of his personal history.

Zidane’s respect for the current coach extends to his decision to avoid any public commentary, ensuring Deschamps’ final chapter with the national team unfolds without distraction. Behind the scenes, connections such as Jacques Bungert, a close ally of both Zidane and F