Real Madrid have promised to pursue every legal avenue after Zinedine Zidane was suspended for three months for not having the correct license. Zidane’s deputy Santiago Sanchez also received the same punishment.
Zidane was sanctioned by the Spanish football federation for not having the right coaching certificate demanded of coaches in Spain and Sanchez for allowing Zidane to act as head coach of Real Madrid Castilla, who play in Spain’s third tier, while he nominally held the post.
In a statement on their website Real expressed their “absolute disagreement with the decision” and said they would “pursue every available legal avenue so that this decision is overturned – not least because Zinedine Zidane has been authorised by the French football federation (FFF) to work as a head coach in the category Real Madrid Castilla currently play in, as the certificate issued by the federation from 13 October 2014 states.” The club have 10 working days to register their appeal.