What if: Zinedine Zidane had decided to play for Algeria

#1 First and only African manager to win the Champions League and the domestic League

Zidane the manager might just go on to be more successful than Zidane the player

While there have been a lot of world class African players in the history of football, successful African managers are as rare as good pop songs being released in our time. The Eto’os and the Drogbas were some of the finest players of their generation, but it doesn’t seem like they will try their luck in management.

Zinedine Zidane’s managerial spell has been nothing less than a fairy-tale. In his one-and-a-half-years of management, he has won the Champions League twice and the league title once along with the Club World Cup, European Super Cup and Spanish Super Cup.

This would not only have made him the most successful Africa manager of all time, but the only African manager to win these accolades, carving his name in the books of seemingly unbreakable football records.