Juventus and Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane has stated he agrees with Ishak Belfodil’s decision to leave Inter in order to find consistent playing time and fight for a spot on Algeria’s World Cup roster.
Zidane and Belfodil share Algerian origins, though the Livorno striker chose to play for Algeria while Zidane chose to play for France and helped them to a World Cup victory in 1998.
“You cannot improve without playing. Training without playing for one or two years can be heavy, the training cannot substitute the competition,” Zidane told the Algerian newspaper Le Buteur.
“I can understand his ambition, he wanted to join a big team like Inter but surely he was told that he would not have had much space and that he would not have lasted long.
“If he chose to leave it is because he understood that he has to play, also because he has a chance to go to the World Cup.”
Belfodil so far has collected two caps with the Algerian national team.
