Today, Zinedine Zidane led Real Madrid to a 3-2 win over Antonio Conte and Chelsea before a crowd of 105,826. The match, held at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the second highest attended soccer game in American history. (Here’s a link to more news, nuggets, facts and fun from the match)
Here below is the full postgame press conference audio for both managers, Conte and Zidane.
Conte assessed the match thusly in his post-game news conference:
“I know it’s not easy to play this game against another great club after only two days of rest, and after a flight of four hours and a half.”
“I know this because I knew the team was a bit tired.”
“But today, I think that this match is very important for us because after this game it’s clear that we have to work together always — without the ball and with the ball — because if we think that we can’t work together when we don’t have the ball, it’s not possible for us. It’s not possible, and we risk to repeat a bad season. Today, I think we weren’t a team in defensive situations. It’s important because in the last game, I appreciated a lot our defensive situation and I told also that we can improve when we have the ball. Today, [we were] better with the ball, but bad without the ball.”
Here’s the Antonio Conte audio, followed by the Zinedine Zidane audio:
https://soundcloud.com/p-m-banks/antonio-conte-post-real-madrid-press-conference
https://soundcloud.com/p-m-banks/140130-0493mp3
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