Zinedine Zidane

Zidane defend Real Madrid

French national team players are well known and popular with the nickname Zizou was a French footballer Algerian descent. His position is elandang attack. He started his career as a player at the club AS Cannes, he later played in Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid last. He retired from club football in 2006 and retired from the national football team after the World Cup France 2006. After a fantastic performance at the 1998 World Cup and European Cup in 2000, not least the football public who consider him the best player in the world. Pros and doing dribbling skills and ball control often make opposing players feel frustrated because of the difficulty the ball from him. Coach-pelatihpun think that forcing man-to-man marking job on Zidane is futile.


Even a German sports manufacturer Adidas to make "new information" that is, 4-Zidane-2. In 1993, Zidane married to Véronique Zidane (born Lentisco), a former French dancer and model of Spain Fourth son: Enzo (born March 24, 1995). Zidane career Zidane was born in Marseille and raised in La Castellane. Though born in Marseille, Zidane has never played for Olympique de Marseille. Zizou career began at age 14 years, son of Algerian immigrants was seen by a talent scout and offered a place at the U.S. Academy of Cannes. During the French league, Zizou played for AS Cannes and Bordeaux, before it was bought by Juventus for £ 3 million. In 2001 Zidane transferred from Italian club, Juventus FC to Real Madrid with a contract for 4 years. Transfer fee of € 66 million, making it a football player with the most expensive transfer in the world. He scored a 2-1 win against German club, Bayer Leverkusen in the 2001-2002 Champions League Final in Glasgow at Hampden Park. The next year in the 2002 World Cup he only appeared once defended France because of injury suffered. In the tournament, the French did not succeed golpun scored one and fell in the bottom group in the first half that failed to qualify to the next round. In 2004 after the European Cup ended in 2004, Zidane retired from international football, but while France have difficulty escaping to the 2006 World Cup, Zidane announced on August 2005 that he would return to play in the national team. French finally escaped, but the new Zidane through injury-filled seasons in Madrid, decided that he would resign after the World Cup is over. On April 25, 2006, Zidane officially announced his decision to resign from the club and national team football after the World Cup France 2006. On May 7, 2006 Zizou played the last game as the host to Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Real Madrid players wore a special T-shirt marked "ZIDANE 2001 - 2006" written below the club logo. As might be expected, Real Madrid supporters gave him a warm welcome and support throughout the game Zizou. This game against Villarreal CF and, unfortunately for Zidane, the best results obtained by Real Madrid is the series 3-3. Zizou scored the second goal for Real Madrid, without a massive celebration. Zizou shirt swap clothes with Juan Roman Riquelme, Villarreal CF player and Argentina midfielder. At the end of the match, Real Madrid supporters say goodbye to Zizou by giving it a long applause, which made him shed tears.

French national team captain Zidane

World Cup 2006 In two World Cup matches beginning of 2006, he performed poorly and even had to miss the third game due to yellow card accumulation. Zidane then showed again his best game in the later rounds, starting from the aborted match against Spain 3-1, then defeated Brazil 1-0, and then defeated Portugal 1-0. With this form of the game then, much to hope that Zidane will hang with the beautiful shoes by beating Italy in the final, but his career ended when he was a bitter red dikartu referee Horacio Elizondo in the finals due to gore Italian defender, Marco Materazzi in the chest. Although his football career ended a bitter Zidane was chosen as the best player version of the 2006 World Cup Fédération Internationale de Football Association and the reporters who covered the event by getting 2012 points, Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro in the second position with 1977 points and the other Italian players, Andrea Pirlo in the the top three with 715 points. The reason he was chosen to be the best player having a charming display performance and showed good leadership in bringing the French who stumbled in round group stage to the final round. France coach Domenech and the "Emperor" Beckenbauer defended FIFA's decision to continue to give the title even though Zizou considered doing such stupid act against Materazzi. Materazzi might be saying the words that are offensive players of the world's best 3 times so that makes it into emotions and finally complete this action.

owned cup Zidane

Degree obtained:

• World Cup (1998)
• European Cup (2000)
• Champions League (2001/2002)
• Toyota Cup (1996, 2002)
• Italy the domestic league Serie A (1996/1997, 1997/1998), Spain La Liga (2002/2003)
• Runner-up World Cup (2006)

Zidane was elected three times World Player of the Year (1998, 2000, 2003) and once as the European Player of the Year (1998) as well as the Player of the 2006 World Cup.