Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French retired footballer and current manager of Real Madrid. He played as an attacking midfielder for the France national team, Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid. Renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, Zidane was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth23 June 1972
CityMarseille, France
CountryFrance
After the World Cup, I will stop playing football.
I have six months or one year left, that's true. I am closer to the end than the start. I want to make the most of my last moments as a football player and experience them at 100%. I know that otherwise after I retire I will regret all those times.
Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
Music was important. Football was the easy part.
It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.
Messi is the Mozart of football.
Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we managed to reverse the trend, and we did it again.
think -- and I stress my words -- about the consequences of voting for a party that does not at all correspond to the values of France.