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‘This is a beautiful moment as we have just won a third straight Champions League and I have now reflected and made this decision. Even the players need this change, I must thank them too.’<\/p>\n
‘The most beautiful moment was when the president brought me to play for this great club,’ he said. ‘If there\u2019s one as a coach, it was winning La Liga. For me that was the top.<\/p>\n
‘This year the worst was losing the game against Leganes in the second leg of the Copa del Rey. I won\u2019t use the word but you know it.’<\/p>\n
Perez said: ‘After winning the Champions League, the decision was unexpected. It is a sad day for me, the fans and the players.<\/p>\n
‘But he knows I wanted him as a player and as a manager. I wanted him to stay forever and I wanted to convince him to stay. But I know it was his final decision. All I want to do is remind him that this club is his home and family.’<\/p>\n
‘I want to thank him for his commitment and passion to Real Madrid. His behaviour has always been an example for all and representative of Real. I don\u2019t want this to be a goodbye but a “see you soon”. I have no doubt he will come back soon.’<\/p>\n “This was a totally unexpected decision. Zidane informed me of his choice yesterday,” added Perez.<\/p>\n “This is a sad day for me, for the players and for everyone involved with the club. He knows that I wanted to sign him more than anyone as a player, as well as a coach.<\/p>\n “I would love for him to be by my side forever.”<\/p>\n Zidane won 70 per cent of his league games as boss and has only lost four Champions League matches during his tenure.<\/p>\n In all competitions, Zidane just about matched his league record, having won 69 per cent of all the games he had been in charge of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zinedine Zidane sensationally quit Real Madrid yesterday evening after landing an historic Champions League hat-trick. The Frenchman called an unexpected press conference on Thursday afternoon to reveal that he will be leaving after two-and-a-half years in charge. The 45-year-old, a club legend as player and manager, said he feels this is the right time to go. Appearing alongside Real president Florentino Perez, Zidane told a news conference said: ‘I have taken the decision to not continue going into the next season. For me and for everybody, I think the moment to change has arrived. It was not an easy decision.”I love this club, I love the president,’ he said. ‘He gave me the opportunity to come as a player and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":35322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/4B5AA5EE00000578-5637843-image-a-19_1524217032942-300x218.jpg\")