The French Football Federation announced this Thursday morning the formation of the assistant technical staff for Zinedine Zidane, the new coach of the French national team.
Zidane begins his official journey with the French national team in September, when facing Turkey away on September 25.
Before hosting Belgium on the 28th of the same month, as part of the UEFA Nations League.
The technical staff of the French national team led by Zidane
The French Federation revealed that David Petroni will assume the position of assistant coach, while Hamidou Massadi works as an assistant to the coach, and Fabien Barthez assumes the task of goalkeeping coach.
The staff also includes Gregory Dupont as a strategy and performance consultant, Stéphane Planc as an observer, and Farid Tabet as an assistant coach and data and video analyst, in addition to Clément Yebir as an assistant video analyst.
The medical staff includes Hervé Collado as a doctor, and Maxime Maton, Paul Olive, Najib Remita, and Pierre-Yves Freudival as physiotherapists, along with Philippe Boissel as an orthopedic doctor and Marc Ritali as a podiatrist.
The French Federation explained that the staff will be completed and its full formation announced at the beginning of next September, according to what was announced during the press conference presenting Zidane as technical director of the French national team.
The French Football Federation had previously announced its contract with Zinedine Zidane to lead the first national team, succeeding coach Didier Deschamps, who succeeded in winning the World Cup title 8 years ago.
