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WHAT CAN ZINÉDINE ZIDANE 🇫🇷 SAY/BRING TO A CENTRAL DEFENDER? 🤔 Well placed to answer, Raphaël VARANE 🇫🇷 shares HIS EXPERIENCE 👇: 🗣️ "It can be about playing higher in terms of alignment, or looking for certain connections during possession phases with midfielders or forwards. For me, he made me work a lot on the left-footed diagonal to gain time and to make the ball circulate faster so that, on the opposite side, my teammates have a head start to attack. 🪄 And then he conveys all his serenity. It's the aspect of patience, waiting for the right moment to make the opening. He has that calm we know him for, and it's contagious. He transmits it to the group." (translated)

NON ZIDANE 🇫🇷 "DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE OPPOSITIONS AT TRAINING nor "ASK HIS PLAYERS FOR ROULETTES". 😭❌ Raphaël VARANE 🇫🇷 EXPLAINS 👇 : 🗣️ "Of course he realizes that the players do not all have the same abilities as he does. He has this ability and this insight to adapt to the qualities of others. He gave me advice when I was a central defender. He does not expect everyone to perform roulettes on the field! 😁 (…) In training, he mostly participates in small shooting sessions. But it’s more occasional, in a small toro or a passing exercise. He does not lose the quality of passing, so he can afford to deliver some great passes to the attackers! 😁 But he will not participate in the oppositions, no." (translated)

WITH ZIDANE, EACH PLAYER WILL HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COACH 🥰. 🇫🇷 (As you read what you will read, think about what the Zidane-Cherki relationship can give 😭💎) Here’s how Raphaël VARANE describes his former coach 👇: “He is more in the individual dimension. He is a coach who loves to give and receive confidence. It’s a rather personal relationship he weaves with the player. He is a VERY PROTECTIVE coach. If a mistake is made, he tends to say: ‘It’s on me, so you can go for it.’ He is a coach who encourages trying, not hesitating, and believing in oneself. He doesn’t want to push anyone to do anything reckless, that’s for sure, but he urges excellence, to seek the detail that makes the difference. A pass that will break a line, for example. Of course, there’s a degree of risk, but he owns that. (...) I have images in my head, particularly in the Champions League, where players jump into his arms. Because there is this special connection that he had managed to establish with our group. (...) He also likes to give responsibility to the players. He has this inspiring aura. In pre-match talks? What comes to my mind first is: ‘We believe!’. His serenity is also what characterizes him. Whatever the stakes of the match, we know he will absorb the pressure. Not that it doesn’t exist, but he has this tendency to transfer his serenity in big events.” (translated)

🚨 COACH ZINÉDINE ZIDANE seen by his former player and ex-international, Raphaël VARANE 👇🇫🇷: “His approach is primarily to SEEK A BALANCE. He wants the offensive players to contribute defensively but without neglecting their comfort to attack. Once the ball is in possession, he offers them freedom, with this notion of instinct, I emphasize, this unpredictable side. That’s HIS STRONGEST POINT: instinct. It’s something he has within him but it's also something he can detect in players so they can be liberated on the field, using their creativity. He makes sure they feel comfortable. 🤩” 🎙️ @lequipe (translated)

"We, the socialists, including Jérôme Guedj, are currently voting 80% with La France Insoumise, and 84% with the communists or the ecologists. So we will need these convergences." Faced with a firmly opposed Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure emphasized the necessity of finding "new left forces in the hemicycle." (translated)

🔴🇬🇧 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 — According to journalist @jean_bexon, a close associate of LFI deputy Raphaël Arnault is among the five people charged today as part of the investigation into the murder of Quentin Deranque. In total, five additional antifascists have been charged after 72 hours in police custody. Three have been placed in pre-trial detention and two under judicial control. (Source: @jean_bexon) (translated)

⚡️🇫🇷FLASH - The tone has risen in the left primary, particularly regarding the alliance with #LFI. "Let's stop spitting on the rest of the left! If you tell the rebellious voters that they smell bad, they will never come!", says Olivier #Faure to Raphaël #Glucksmann. Ségolène #Royal also addresses Glucksmann: "Will there be no agreement with LFI? But by what right? It is the Socialist Party that must define the reconstruction of the #left. It is thanks to the #PS that you were the head of the list in the European elections. And now, you come to lecture us?" She adds: "If you don't make an agreement with left-wing activists, you will make one with the #right and the #macronie. It must be said right away, we must not deceive voters! 14% in the European elections does not equal 51% in the presidential. Moreover, in the European elections, it was not #Mélenchon who was head of the list; Mélenchon has another dimension." Faure also criticizes Jérôme #Guedj, who refuses to talk about LFI: "You were the left wing of the PS, you have become the right wing. It is not with you that I find coherence." He reminds that the PS votes "80% of bills like LFI and 84% like the communists": "We will need these #convergences." (translated)

"And now, you come to give us lessons?" The tone is rising between Ségolène Royal and Raphaël Glucksmann about alliances with LFI. Ségolène Royal: "There will be no agreement with LFI? By what right? It is up to the Socialist Party to define the refoundation of the left. It is thanks to the Socialist Party that you were head of the list in the European elections. And now, you come to give us lessons?" Raphaël Glucksmann: "A majority of the Socialist Party agrees with what I am saying." Ségolène Royal: "Well, that is what we will see in this primary, because indeed, there are two options." (translated)

"⚡️🇫🇷|🇵🇸|🇮🇱CITATION - 'If words are important, we must recognize the genocide. That's it.' Ségolène #Royal responds to Raphaël #Glucksmann, who refuses to use the term 'genocide' in #Gaza, where more than 73,000 #Palestinians have been killed in recent years by #Israel." (translated)