Real Madrid great Zinedine Zidane has declared he's ready to return to coaching.

Zidane made the admission at a function for his former Juventus coach Marcello Lippi.

"One day coach in Italy? Why not? Anything can happen, but at the moment I am doing something else. I'm sure I'll go back to the bench, I'd like to train again," said Zizou.

On Lippi, he enthused: "Marcello Lippi was the one who made me come to Juventus, the first one who believed in me and let me play.

"It was not easy for him, I came from France, everything was different, but Lippi made me become what I later became. As a player I had great coaches like Lippi or Ancelotti, but each one has to follow his own path."