Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born June 23, 1972 in Marseille, often nicknamed Zizou, is a French international footballer, born of an Algerian family.
He is cited among the greatest football players of all time and is listed among the 125 world's best players still alive in 2004 in a joint filing of Pele and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Favorite sport of the French in 2006 [1], it is classified three times World Player of the Year by FIFA in 1998, 2000 and 2003 [2] and Golden Ball in 1998. He was twice placed second best French player of all time by France Football. In 2004 he was elected European Footballer of the half-century's ahead of UEFA and legends such as Cruyff, Beckenbauer or Platini.
Playing an attacking midfielder, he was the playmaker of prestigious European clubs such as Juventus and Real Madrid, with whom he has won numerous national and international titles.
Capped 108 times with the France team, Zinedine Zidane is illustrated primarily in international victory at the 1998 World Cup where he scored two headed goals in the final against Brazil won 3-0 and the European Championships in 2000 also won.
Famous number 10 of the Blues, he put an end to his career following the 2006 World Cup, during which he distinguished himself and received the title of best player in the world [3]. On July 9, 2006, he played his last game at the final of the World Cup between Italy and France. He illustrates it with ambivalence by entering his 31st goal in a French jersey Destination successful, but also by his red card for expulsion on a whim in the chest of Marco MaterazziThe parents of Zinedine are from Kabylia in the wilaya of Bejaia in Algeria, his father Smail Zidane from the town of Ath Slimane Aguemoun. Remarks in which he mentions his identity is collected by the newspaper The Observer [7].
Zinedine Zidane signed its first license in 1982 at a club near his home area: the U.S. Saint-Henri [8] and then passes Septèmes SW, Provence [9], with whom he plays in the category up chicks 'at the age of fourteen. In 1986 he was selected in the first year for the junior championship league. At year end, it is called the Regional Centre for Popular Education and Sport (CREPS) Aix-en-Provence for a three-day course. There he was noticed and recruited by the AS Cannes through the recruiter Varraud Jean, himself a former ASSE's [10].
After a one-week course he joined in 1987 at the age of fifteen, the training center at Cannes under the command of Guy Lacombe [11]. It is placed in a foster home, the Elineau [12]. At 16, Jean Fernandez integrates the professional workforce.
It begins in First Division May 20, 1989, against FC Nantes team Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps at the time, the Beaujoire. It has not yet 17. On February 8, 1991, he scored his first goal in the first division, always against FC Nantes and receives a red Clio as he has promised the club president Alain Pedretti, it scores a goal. The club qualified for the UEFA Cup and Zidane discovers Europe. The following year the club was eliminated from the UEFA Cup and down in D2. Zidane then joined Bordeaux in the summer of 1992.In 1992, Zidane was recruited by Rolland Courbis and Alain Afflelou, then president of Bordeaux. Zidane at Cannes and two players were exchanged against a player of Bordeaux. Within his new club, he sympathizes with two other future French international, Christophe Dugarry and Bixente Lizarazu, with whom he formed the "Triangle of Bordeaux," these three players demonstrating an ability to be closed eyes on the ground in Bordeaux as for France.
Zidane scored ten goals in his first season, then six the next three seasons. It also dispute the final of the UEFA Cup in 1996 against Bayern Munich in which evolves Jean-Pierre Papin (lost 0-2, 1-3) after eliminating AC Milan in the quarterfinals of Savicevic, thanks to a 3-0 memorable in the second leg at the Parc Lescure (0-2 first leg).
Before that, he scored a goal anthology of forty yards against Betis Sevilla, in the fourth round of the UEFA Cup. Against Slavia Prague in the semifinals, it executes its first wheels and Europe discovers a football artist. Bordeaux go to the final but can not compete with Bayern Munich without Zidane, Suspended go.
On August 17, 1994 in Bordeaux, it is first selected for France, against the Czech Republic, on the lawn of his club at Parc Lescure. It comes into play on 63 minutes with the number 14, replacing Corentin Martins. France was then led 2-0 but Zidane scored two goals in two minutes for the Blues to get the draw. It must however have to wait almost a year to become a full owner in the France team, and only in 1995 during the qualifiers for Euro 1996, the coach National Aime Jacquet made playmaker Zidane holder.