How Zidane's Real Madrid BROKE European Football

in just three seasons Real Madrid won nine trophies led by a manager who had never coached a first team before but how on Earth was this even possible this is the story of how zon's Real Madrid quite literally broke European football three in the Box waiting for the cross and it was B and then Ronaldo what go by chistian Real Madrid have won their third consecutive UEFA Champions League to understand how Real Madrid conquered Europe we have to start in the 145 season when Carlo angelotti was the Real Madrid manager this was an off season

for Real Madrid as they picked up no trophies finishing two points off barca in the league losing the Champions League in the semis to Juventus and getting knocked out in the round of 16 in the Copa del Reay but despite finishing trophyless Real Madrid were the highest scoring team in Europe playing amazing football and Cristiano Ronaldo had his best individual season ever but the thing about Ral is that no matter how close they get a trophyless season is not good enough as the standards are nothing short of success at this time Barcelona were the best

team in the world with the famous MSN Trio terrorizing Europe and leading them to a tremble which fueled more anger amongst the Real Madrid fan base the team was also in a transitional phase this season with chabi Alonzo and Di Maria both both leaving and new players coming in like Cru Navas and jamus Rodriguez it was also during this season that Zinedine zidon was placed in charge of the Real Madrid B team as he was still learning the art of coaching having never coached a first team before at the end of the 1415 season Carlo

angelone was dismissed as Real Madrid felt the need for a new leader and appointed manager Rafa Benitez but this would not go so well the 15 16 Season saw the iconic Real Madrid team take shape even even further with casmiro returning from loan kovachich and asencio both signing and exits from players like cillas Hernandez and kadira there were now all the tools in place for a great team they just needed a manager to guide them and they would soon realize that Rafa Benitez was not that man he opened the league campaign with a goalless draw

against sporting heon but went on to win the next four in a row scoring 14 and conceding two Ronaldo was yet again on fire having scored five goals in a game against espanol but something just wasn't clicking in this team because late in September they drew two games backto back against Atletico Madrid in Malaga making for a rocky start to the league campaign despite this Real Madrid were still heading into November 1st in La Liga until they would suffer their first and second losses of the season with a 3-2 defeat to Sevilla and a 4-

nil El Classico defeat to Barcelona making that the heaviest El Classico defeat in over 6 years in the Copa del Ray Madrid started the season with a 3-1 Victory but were disqualified from the competition 3 days later because they played a suspended player without realizing meaning the cup campaign was over in just the first round looking at the Champions League Real Madrid stormed the group stage winning five and drawing one with the final game being an 8- nil thrashing of Malo where Ronaldo scored four Bena three and kovachich scored the remaining one as the year

turned Real Madrid dropped points at a 22 drop to Valencia placing them third in the league behind both Atletico Madrid and Barcelona and this is when Florentino Perez pulled the trigger sacking Rafa bonite midseason it was announced that Zinedine zidon would be promoted to first team manager and this initially was received with a lot of criticism as he was a completely unproven coach he was one of the greatest football players of all time and a real Madrid Legend but there were serious question marks over his managerial capabilities but this was all just noise and zidon

was ready to prove everyone wrong the zidon era was opened with a 5-nil win over de pivo with a Gareth Bale hat-trick an ironic start considering how Bale and zon's relationship would deteriorate as the years went by one of the first things zidon did was introduce casemiro to the starting lineup as up until this point in the season he was just a squad player sedon got off to a great start winning five and drawing one in his first six Lega games but then came the end of February where they drew away to Malaga and then

in the very next game lost at home to Atletico Madrid at this point the gap between Real Madrid and Barcelona had grown to 12 points and it felt like the league was done and dusted already but this is where something switched from the 2nd of March Real Madrid went on to win every single game in La Liga going on a 12 game winning streak including a 2-1 away win against Barcelona which ended their 29 game on beaten streak this game was dramatic to say the least with Ramos getting sent off and Real Madrid having a

goal ruled out but thanks to a goal from Benzema and a late winner from Ronaldo they were able to scrape the victory by the time May came around Real Madrid had salvaged their league position and were in with a chance to win it taking the league to the final game of the season where Ral beat deportivo 2-n thanks to a Ronaldo brace but unfortunately this was not enough as Barcelona were Crow Champions by one point but the league isn't where the magic happened this season because Real Madrid were able to take home an even greater

prize thanks to Historic Champions League campaign they breezed past Roma in the round of 16 winning both legs 2-nil with Ronaldo scoring one in each but it's the quarter finals where things really got dramatic Real Madrid played the first leg away at wolburg and were beaten 2-n but it's in these moments where the big players step up and come the return fixture the biggest player of them all was ready minute 15 who's been able to advance and played in for Cristiano Ronaldo to score minute 17 CR Ronaldo they've done it in a hurry and minute

77 Cristiano Ronaldo beautiful beautiful Cristiano Ronaldo walked away with the match ball and Real Madrid marched onto the semi-finals to play against Manchester City a goal as first leg and a 1- nil win in the second leg would see Real Madrid land a spot in the final and face their City Rivals at Leo madren Zinedine zidon had come into the job just 5 months earlier and had already transformed this team Kaylor Navas and go Ramos and pepe creating a wall at the back Marcelo and Carvajal bombing up and down on the flanks a perfectly balanced

Midfield with casmiro as the Destroyer Cru as the Deep line playmaker and Modric as the Box tobox creator and the front three known as BBC Bale Benzema and Cristiano zidon had some players on his hands as they marched out for war and a war is what they got Ramos gave raal an early lead with the goal in the first 15 minutes just after halftime Atletico Madrid had the chance to level it but Griezmann missed the penalty but still they claw it back to 1-1 with a late equalizer the game went through extra time and headed

to a penalty shootout Vasquez goal griezman goal Marcelo goal Gabby goal Bale goal Saul goal Ramos goal Juan Fran Miss Ronaldo to win the champions league and he goes down Real Madrid has won the Champions League for the 11th time Real Madrid lifted their 11th Champions League trophy as Ronaldo finished the tournament with 16 goals and the season with 51 goals which also landed him the Balon door and Zinedine zidon finished the the first of three historic seasons in Madrid but he was only just getting started now entering his first full season in charge Zinedine

ziton was still receiving criticism and doubters were saying that the increased expectations would cause his team to crumble under pressure but the opposite happened zon's men thrived Marco asencio returned from loan and Alvaro marada signed adding more depth to the squad this season zidon started to lose trust in Bale due to injuries and a general attitude issue so there were more rotations in the front line Real Madrid started the season with a super Cup victory against Sevilla and carried on with this momentum leading into La Liga winning the first four games and then winning their

first Champions League group game against berusia Dortmund but this fine start would be put into question with four draws on the bounce with three in the league and one in the Champions League come the 15th of October zidon snapped his men back into action as they thumped R beti 6 to1 and just carried on winning on the 19th of November they traveled to Atletico Madrid and Cristiano showed up with a hat-trick to defeat them 3 n this real versus Atletico rivalry is a significant one in this period Real Madrid beat them in the 2014 Champions

League final in the 2016 final and continue to get the better of them in the crucial moments like we'll see later in this season Real Madrid Drew their first L Classico of the Season thanks to a late goal from Ramos and in December they played in the club World Cup which they went on to win in the Champions League group stage zon's men went unbeaten but Drew three games meaning they finished second place in the group handing them a harder draw in The Knockout stages but that just meant a more exciting Journey it took all

the way until the 17th of January for Madrid to lose their first game of the season against Sevilla which ended their 40 game on beaten streak a Spanish record that they had just broken which was previously set by Barcelona just the year before more 3 Days Later Madrid lost their second game in a row this time in the Copa del re which unfortunately knocked them out killing any chance of a tremble but come the end of the season they wouldn't be caring about this cup ra entered the Champions League round of 16 and won both

legs 3-1 comfortably moving on to the quarterfinals where things would get very controversial Real Madrid won the first leg 2-1 with a Ronaldo brace but it was in the second leg where the controversy occurred raal were trailing 2-1 but scored three goals in extra time to win the game 4-2 and Ronaldo finished the game with taking home the match ball making it a quarterfinal tradition for him but if V was a thing here two of these goals would have most likely been called offside but anyway they were now through to the semis to face their

favorite opponents Atletico Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hattrick in the first leg to pretty much seal the tie Atletico Madrid won the return leg 2-1 but the tie finished in favor of zon's team who were on their way to the final to face off against Juventus now during this time Real Madrid were in a La Liga title race with Barcelona especially after they lost the AL Classico at the end of April the league title went down to the final game of the season where Real Madrid were in the driving seat holding a three-point lead and

a 2-nil victory over Malaga thanks to goals from Ronaldo and Benzema sealed the league for Los Blancos having now truly shifted the tide in Spain from the MSN era to the zidon era but with one game left to play in the season seon Real Madrid had the opportunity to do what no team had ever done before and that was to win back-to- back champions leagues in the modern era of the tournament the formation heading into this final was pretty much the same as the previous year with the only two changes being Veron swamped out for

Pepe and Isco swapped out for Bale the game kicked off and within just 20 minutes Mr Champions League showed up as he always does to score the first goal of the game 7 minutes later Muk scored an alltime great goal to give Juventus some hope but as the game progressed they just weren't strong enough to fight off the ruthlessness of Real Madrid with casemiro Ronaldo and aseno all getting on the score sheet to seal the final 4-1 and conclude their second of three historic Seasons Cristiano Ronaldo was the star man yet again this year scoring

10 goals in the Champions League knockout stages alone as he showed up whenever it mattered Ronaldo was named the Balon door winner and zidon was named the world's best best coach has Real Madrid cemented themselves as the best team in Europe yet again but twice wasn't enough for this team and they weren't ready to stop dominating football and building their legacy soie Don's men were coming for the three peat and they were going to prove the doubters wrong once again season three surely they can't go three in a row right the 1718 season began with

Pepe leaving after 10 years with the club Mora and jamus r R RZ also made an exit and they signed Theo Hernandez as per usual the season began with noise from people saying they can't do it again backto back was the best this team could do but zon's men had something different on their minds they began the season winning the UFA super Cup and the Spanish super cup but the Spanish super cup proved to be a controversial fixture as Ronaldo was sent off and banned for five games this derailed the start to the season as

they only won two of the first five La Liga matches whilst Barcelona had won all five unfortunately for Ral this set the pace for the entire league campaign as they were inconsistent throughout and would struggle to catch Barcelona in terms of the Champions League they kicked off the season with a 3-0 win over appell but one team in their group were able to get the better of them and surprisingly this was Tottenham Hotspur as they drew and beat roal in the two games they played meaning they went to the top of the group and Real

Madrid finished second for the second year in a row but despite this Cristiano Ronaldo set a new Champions League record being the only player to score in every single group stage match come the turn of the year and Real Madrid won the club World Cup for the second time in a row but in La Liga they sat in fourth place 13 points behind Barcelona which started to create doubts around this team they never managed to catch Barcelona or even get close as C May Real Madrid finished in third place 17 points behind the Champions they

were also knocked out of the Copa del re in the quarterfinals against Lake onest but as I'm sure you know this season wasn't about the domestic trophies so let's talk about the European competition RA Madrid kicked off The Knockout stages with a 3-1 Victory against PSG with a brace from Ronaldo and a goal from Marcelo they then won the AA fixture 2-1 with another goal from Ronaldo and another from casemiro sending them through to the quarterfinals this was a repeat of last year's final and yet again Real Madrid got the better of Juventus but in

this fixture history was made the first leg saw Real Madrid play away at Juventus and they won 3-0 proving a comfortable Victory Ronaldo scored two and Marcelo scored one but Ronaldo's second goal has gone down as one of the greatest in the history of the sport and then Ronaldo what a goal by Cristiano Ronaldo this goal saw the whole stadium of Juventus supporters stand up and applaud greatness with this 3-n Victory the tie should have been done and dusted but as the second leg was played out in the barell to everyone's surpris by the 60th

minute Ral were trailing 3 n but as is just normal at this point Cristiano Ronaldo was there to save the day as a penalty fell into his lap in the 998th minute and he blasted it into the top corner to send Real Madrid to the semis up until this point Cristiano Ronaldo had scored in every single game this Champions League season which is quite a crazy statistic roll on the semi-finals and Don's men faced Bayern Munich winning the first leg 2-1 and drawing the second 22 thanks to goals from Marcelo asencio and a brace from

Benzema meaning for the third year in a row Real Madrid would play in the Champions League final and this time against Liverpool this year Real Madrid definitely had the hardest route to get there having had to play the French Champions then the Italian Champions then the German Champions and then Liverpool in the final who were on the up and up and actually won the tournament the year after zidon chose the exact same lineup as the year before because why change a winning team and that definitely paid off now this Liverpool team were having a magical

season with the starm man being Mo Salah so it came as a massive blow when in the 31st minute he had to go off injured after a questionable tackle from Sergio Ramos Liverpool fans say it was on purpose to neutralize the danger man while Madrid fans don't really care as the game carried on come the second half Benzema was gifted a goal by goalkeeper Loris caras who would go on to have a nightmare of a match 4 minutes later Sano mané equalized but in the 61st minute zon made a substitution that changed the game and

it was the man who he had dropped from the first team and had ongoing arguments with for the past two seasons Gareth Bale just four minutes after coming on Bale scored arguably the greatest goal in a Champions League final ever three in the Box waiting for the cross and it was B what about that what about that from Gareth Bale the only other comparable final goal to this was by zidon himself who scored an unbelievable volley 20 years prior for Real Madrid 20 minutes later Bale took a shot from outside the box which should have

been a routine save for caras but the ball swerved and caras was out of it meaning the ball found the back of the net and raal finished the game three goals to one and just like that zon's men lifted their third Champions League in a row completing the three Pat and leaving a legacy like no other Ronaldo finished the Champions League campaign with 15 goals and the season with 44 Bale finished as Madrid's second top scorer with 21 and Beni in third with 11 Modric was crowned the Balon door winner off the back of this

season and His World Cup campaign and zidon was named the manager of the year for the second time in a row despite having just won the Champions League right after the match there were talks about the future of this team Ronaldo and Bale both hinted at leaving in the postmatch interview with Ronaldo then announcing his departure to Juventus not long after but the most surprising thing to happen was that a couple of weeks after the final Zinedine zidon announced that he will be stepping down as Real Madrid manager after the most successful period for the

club in the modern era after zidan's departure Ral took a hit causing an eventual return from zidon which was not the same love story as this one but that's for another video so subscribe and if you like this story you should check out the video on screen now m