Zinedine Zidane says that being a manager is a "crazy job" that he "lives intensely."

Zidane led Real Madrid to the Champions League Final before adding the European Super Cup and Club World Cup trophies.

"I am incredibly lucky to be able to do what I love, and to taste victory," Zidane said. "I did it as a player and I am now doing it as a coach. At the same time this is a crazy profession. I live intensely everything I do, every day, because I know that one day, it will stop. That is the coach's life. But I do not think about that at the moment. I think about what I'm seeing today, because I'm enjoying myself."

Florentino Perez planned for Zidane to take over the Madrid first team, giving him a number of roles at the Bernabeu including 18 months with the Castilla youth side before eventually promoting him to replace Benitez in January 2016.