Football: It was an honour to work with 'great captain' Sergio Ramos, says Zinedine Zidane

Zinedine Zidane has heaped praise on Real Madrid legend Sergio Ramos. The previous Los Blancos manager's message followed Sergio Ramos affirming his exit from the club he joined as a 19-year-old.

Zinedine Zidane took to Instagram to send a salutary message to Sergio Ramos following an incredible vocation for both Real Madrid and Spain's public group. In his post, the Frenchman viewed Ramos as perhaps the best skipper in the game.

He wrote: "LEGEND. It was a great pleasure and honor to have you as a partner and player! A great Captain for history! Thank you so much for everything."

Zinedine Zidane was a Real Madrid player when Sergio Ramos joined Real Madrid back in 2005. Nonetheless, the pair partook in more achievement together during Zinedine Zidane's administrative vocation at Real Madrid. In his two spells as Los Blancos, manager, the Frenchman, and club skipper Sergio Ramos won three sequential Champions Leagues, two La Liga titles, two UEFA Super Cups, and two FIFA Club World Cups.

It hasn't been the best beginning to the late spring for Real Madrid. The club has now lost two legends in no time. Zidane was the first to leave the Santiago Bernabeu in the wake of completing second in La Liga, behind city-rivals Atletico Madrid. Zidane has been supplanted by another returning chief in Italian Carlo Ancelotti for the 2021-22 season.

This week, the club bid farewell to their skipper Sergio Ramos. The 35-year-old safeguard couldn't go to a concurrence with the Real Madrid chain of command over another arrangement and now leaves the club as a free specialist in the wake of expenditure 16 seasons in the Spanish capital.

Real Madrid could likewise lose their other productive center-back this mid-year. Raphael Varane is as of now connected with a transition to Manchester United and has only one year staying on his agreement. Be that as it may, Real Madrid is supposedly set to propose a drawn-out bargain for Raphael Varane.