For the next few minutes, I'm gonna glorify the most glorious player in the World. Read on, fellow Gooners.This post is long, so keep some nosh next to you, just in case
Zidane was born Zainuddin Zidane to Monsieur Ismael and Madame Mallika Zidane, of Algerian Kabylie heritage in the port town of Marseilles, France. Zizou began playing street football at the age of five, by which time he was already ingrained with his never say die attitude. Zidane's role model was Euro 1984 winner Michel Platini, who he tried to emulate. Zizou once said, "When me and my friends played on the street, we used to pretend to be real footballers. I was always Platini."
Zizou was picked up by AS Cannes scout Jean Varraud, who invited him to Cannes for a six-week trial. However, so mesmirising was he at Cannes that the then French almost-unknown midfielder stayed there for four years, making his full debut at the tender age of 17. His fourth year at Cannes culminated in the awarding of a UEFA Cup berth. Zidane sought more Ligue 1 action in the form of a move to FC Girondins de Bordeaux. At le Massif Centrale, Zizou won the Intertoto Cup, which guaranteed les Girondins a place in the UEFA Cup, where he finished runner-up, thus signalling only the start of an illustrious career.
In 1996, Zidane moved to Turin with Italian Titans FC Juventus Torino, for an estimated fee of just 3 million (yes, non-Zizou fans, you might snigger at this point, but then again, you're gonna read about his achievements in full below, so please do continue reading) and won the 1996 Scudetto and the Intercontinental Cup and helped retain the Scudetto next season. 'Twas at Turinthat he fine tuned his style of cool, calm, composed play which was the perfect amalgamation of fire and ice, wowing audiences worldwide with display after awesome display of well, awesomeness.
In 2001, Zizou joined Real Madrid CF for a then record breaking fee of 76 million euros (how agonising that WOTY broke this record) where every touch of his on the ball was greeted with raucous cheers. He was the bloke who made everything happen. One of the galactico elite alongside David Beckham, Luis Figo, Luis Ronaldo, Raul Gonzalez, Michel Salgado, Roberto Carlos and Claude Makelele (to name the entire extended Galactico family), and scored the match winning goal (an absolute belter of a shot) against Bayer Leverkeusen, in the UEFA Champions League Final, completing a unique quadruple (Ha! Beat that, WOTY!)
On the international scenario, Zidane's first international tournament was Euro 1996, where he showed the world what exactly he was capable of, even though France exited the tourney in the semis.
Arguably, his finest moment with Les Bleus was during the FIFA World Cup in 1998 where France won the trophy in L'Hexagone, beating Brazil 3 - 0 in the final. Anyway, tha's all ancient history. All we need to remember is that Zizou won the World Cup, and no Man U (Barthez was at Marseille, Blanc at Inter), Chelsea or Liverpool player has done it in the last so many years. (Read Vieira, Pires, Henry, Trezeguet)
Zidane was born Zainuddin Zidane to Monsieur Ismael and Madame Mallika Zidane, of Algerian Kabylie heritage in the port town of Marseilles, France. Zizou began playing street football at the age of five, by which time he was already ingrained with his never say die attitude. Zidane's role model was Euro 1984 winner Michel Platini, who he tried to emulate. Zizou once said, "When me and my friends played on the street, we used to pretend to be real footballers. I was always Platini."
Zizou was picked up by AS Cannes scout Jean Varraud, who invited him to Cannes for a six-week trial. However, so mesmirising was he at Cannes that the then French almost-unknown midfielder stayed there for four years, making his full debut at the tender age of 17. His fourth year at Cannes culminated in the awarding of a UEFA Cup berth. Zidane sought more Ligue 1 action in the form of a move to FC Girondins de Bordeaux. At le Massif Centrale, Zizou won the Intertoto Cup, which guaranteed les Girondins a place in the UEFA Cup, where he finished runner-up, thus signalling only the start of an illustrious career.
In 1996, Zidane moved to Turin with Italian Titans FC Juventus Torino, for an estimated fee of just 3 million (yes, non-Zizou fans, you might snigger at this point, but then again, you're gonna read about his achievements in full below, so please do continue reading) and won the 1996 Scudetto and the Intercontinental Cup and helped retain the Scudetto next season. 'Twas at Turinthat he fine tuned his style of cool, calm, composed play which was the perfect amalgamation of fire and ice, wowing audiences worldwide with display after awesome display of well, awesomeness.
In 2001, Zizou joined Real Madrid CF for a then record breaking fee of 76 million euros (how agonising that WOTY broke this record) where every touch of his on the ball was greeted with raucous cheers. He was the bloke who made everything happen. One of the galactico elite alongside David Beckham, Luis Figo, Luis Ronaldo, Raul Gonzalez, Michel Salgado, Roberto Carlos and Claude Makelele (to name the entire extended Galactico family), and scored the match winning goal (an absolute belter of a shot) against Bayer Leverkeusen, in the UEFA Champions League Final, completing a unique quadruple (Ha! Beat that, WOTY!)
On the international scenario, Zidane's first international tournament was Euro 1996, where he showed the world what exactly he was capable of, even though France exited the tourney in the semis.
Arguably, his finest moment with Les Bleus was during the FIFA World Cup in 1998 where France won the trophy in L'Hexagone, beating Brazil 3 - 0 in the final. Anyway, tha's all ancient history. All we need to remember is that Zizou won the World Cup, and no Man U (Barthez was at Marseille, Blanc at Inter), Chelsea or Liverpool player has done it in the last so many years. (Read Vieira, Pires, Henry, Trezeguet)
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