Madrid - French coach Zinedine Zidane baffled the world today by resigning his position as coach of Real Madrid, just a few days after winning the Champions League title for the third season in a row, something unusual.

Sometimes you pose in the hard moments of the season if you are the right person. That makes you reflect. Now is the time. The players need a change, Zizou explained at a press conference.

The news keeps baffled strangers, especially since in two and a half seasons under his command Real Madrid archives three crowns of the European Champions League, one of the Spanish League, two Club World Cups, and a pair of Super Cups of the Old Continent, an extraordinary record.

The history of this club is very big and we always press the players. What will I ask of you more with what you have done with me? A new speech is needed to win again, added the champion of the World Cup of France-1998.

Zidane added, 'The decision for many may not make sense, but it does for me. A change is necessary for all and an appropriate decision. There are complicated moments that we have experienced in the season, with whistles, but this is part of the club. '

He also thanked 'all the people I have had around me: physiotherapists, doctors, coaching staff, assistants ...'

The best coach in the world in 2017, according to FIFA, says goodbye to the merengue bench and with it, the star that illuminated Madrid in recent years is gone.

With Zidane in the engine room and Cristiano Ronaldo as a great star, the white club regained the crown of the Spanish League after five years without getting it.

However, the most significant were the three Champions crowns, a lot, to the point that no other team has been able to win two under the new format of competitions, established in 1992.

It is all simpler than it seems, there are stages in which one lives it very hard and you have to know when to stop. I do it for the good of this team. With me, it would have been difficult to win next year, he added.

At all times Zidane made it clear that his relationship with the president of Madrid, the tycoon Florentino Perez, and Cristiano Ronaldo is good, and that the decision to leave has nothing to do with them as they say some media.

I want to thank him for his dedication, his love and everything he has done for Real Madrid these years. It's not a farewell, this is a see you soon. However, if he needs a break, he deserves it too, remarked Pérez.

With only a few days left until the start of the Russia-2018 World Cup, the most coveted coach position on the planet - at club level - is vacant.