Zinedine Zidane the famous French footballer whoplayed as a midfielder for Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus and the Spanish giants Real Madrid and France . He was born in Marseilleon 23/6/1972, of Algerian parents, as Algeria was once a French colony.
His first club was Cannes where he scored his first goal for the club , it was an important goal and he received a car as a gift.He then joined Bordeaux where he played from 1992 to 1996. It was whilehe was at bordeaux that Eric Cantona pleaded with his club Mancxhester Unitedto buy Zidane, and the scouts flew to Bordeaux to watch Zidane play. After the match Cantona asked them what they thought and they said he was not fit to wear the famous red shirt of the Red Devils.juventus then snaped him up
But in the year1995 the English club Blackburn Rovers coach Kenny Daglish expressed intrest in Zidane andDugarry. But the owner of Blackburn Rovers Jack Walker said why do you want Zidane and Dugarry, when you have Tim Sherwood?
Juventus tthen bought him for 3 million pounds. The Juventus coach Marceilo Lippi made the team around Zidane and they did well, in 1996/97 they won the scudetto and the intercontinentol cup beating Rive Plate. In the1997 champion league final they lost to Borussia Dortmund 3-1.
Inthe year 1997 -1998 Juventus lost to Real Madrid 1-0 in the champion league final and lost to A,S,Roma in the Siera A. for the scudetto .
In the 2000- 2001 champion league Zidane was sent of against Hamburg for head butting the player Jochen Kientz.
In 2001 Zidanewas sold by Juventus to Real Madrid fora record fee of 76 million euros the costliest transfer in football history. Juventus then filled the midfield vacant place by buying Pavel Nedved for 41 million euros.
In April 2006 Zidane anounced his club football retirement from Real Madrid and on the last game verses Villarreal played at the Bernabeau all the Madrid players wore
jerseys with Zidane printed below the logo. The match ended 3-3.
Zidane had dual citizenship of France and Algeria.His first game for france was in one against the Czech Republic in whic he came as a substitute and scored two goals. the game ended 2-2.
Amie Jacquet first wanted to build the team around Cantona and Ginola but as Cantona got a full years suspension for attacking a Crystal Palace fan in the E.P.L. He then made the team around Zidane and Patrick Vieira and how it worked. In the 1996 Euro France were elimenatd in the semifinals verses Czech Republic in a penalty shootout.\
France won the final in 1998 verses Brazil with Zidane scoring two headers and Petit scoring the third.
In the Euro 2000 France won with an etra time goal bt David Trezeguet. The second time acountry won the world cup and the Euro Cup.
The 2002 world cup was a disaster for France they failed to scorea single goal and were knocked out in the first round .
In the 2006 world cup Zidane scored a goal in the final against Italy, in so doing , he became the fourth footballer to score a goal inthe final equaling Pele, Vava, Beitner are the other players. He is also the second player along with Rigobut Song to be send of in two world cups. The 2006 final match also ssaw Zidane illfamous head butting of Italian defender Marco Matrezzi. It was reported Matrezzi said hurting and bad words to Zidane he along with Matrezzi got fines and bans from F.I.F.A.But as it was Zidane s last game it made no difference to him.
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