Zinedine Zidane, inadvertently or otherwise, inspired scrutiny after admitting that some people may have found his replacement of Didier Deschamps as France manager “difficult” while discussing Kylian Mbappé, who is yet to receive a call from his new national team boss.
Zidane, one of the few players with a greater track record for Les Bleus than Mbappé, was appointed as Deschamps’s successor on Tuesday, signing a four-year contract which will take him through the 2028 European Championship and until the end of the 2030 World Cup.
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