2024-09-28 12:03:44
Zinedine Zidane is the face of allsport.am this week.
Zinedine Zidane was 2 years old when his family moved from Algeria to Paris, the capital of France, and then settled in Marseille. Yazid was the fifth child in the family, after sister Lila and brothers Jamel, Farid and Nordin. It is interesting that in the beginning Zizu attended judo and cycling, but in the end he chose football. Like many children, he spent most of his time playing football in the street. On that occasion, Zinedin’s mother complained that her son took the ball and went to play football as soon as he came home from school, but when he came home, the game continued right there. It was very difficult for the family, because only the father worked, and thus supporting a large family was a difficult task. One day, one of the coaches of the “Cannes” football club met with Zizu’s father, who expressed his desire to enroll Yazid in his football school. The father agreed.
Jean Varro, one of the “Cannes” selectors, signed his first professional contract with 14-year-old Zidane. It happened in 1987. Already at the age of 16, Zizou made his debut in the main team of “Cannes”, when he spent 15 minutes on the field in one of the games of the first league of France. Then he made a huge progress in his career because he was playing great football. During that period, he began to be invited to the youth teams of France. He was praised by both Guy Liacombe, the head coach of Cannes, and Gilles Rampillon, who said that “Zidane doesn’t talk much, but he does a lot.”
He made his debut in professional football in 1989. on May 20, in the match against “Nantes”. Zinedine even had a great chance to score, but after his shot, the ball bounced off the goal post. He received 6,000 francs for participating in that meeting. And Yazid’s first goal in the French first league was registered in 1991. on February 8 and here the name “Nante” is mentioned again. In 1992 “Cannes” left the tournament of the strongest, and Zidane, not wanting to play in a tournament with a lower playing level, left the team.
That same year, Zidane moved to that team at the invitation of Rolland Kurbis, the head coach of “Bordeaux”. In his first season in the Gironde team, he scored 10 goals and became the team’s top scorer. In total, Zizu played for “Bordeaux” for 4 years and during that time participated in 139 games and scored 28 goals.
In 1996 Zidane moved to one of the big European clubs, “Juventus” of Turin.
In 1996 Zidane moved to one of the big European clubs, “Juventus” of Turin. It was here that he recorded the main achievements of his career. Already in 1997-1998 Yazid and his team were declared champions of Italy and also winners of the Apennine Peninsula Super Cup. And at the end of the season, he won the “Golden Ball” award and became the best football player in the world according to FIFA.
After so much success, Zizou had become one of the leaders of the team and it was very unexpected when it became known that he was moving to Real Madrid due to the end of his contract.
Zinedine Zidane moved to “royal club” in 2001. a record 75 mln. in euro amount. He became one of the members of the team called “Galacticos” along with Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, Raul, David Beckham and Luis Figo. Zizu also stood out here with his constructive game. In that season, “Galacticos” became the winner of the Champions League, and in the final, Zinedine Zidane scored the goal of “Bayer” after a pass by Carlos, and that goal is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful goals in the history of football.
And already in 2002-2003. In the Spanish championship, the “Blancos” returned the Spanish champion title.
Although it is difficult to single out anyone from the “Real” star of that period, the Frenchman, with his skills and talent, left precious memories and moments in the history of the club and in the hearts of Madridistas.
In 1994 on August 17, Zinedine Zidane was invited to the French national team for the first time to participate in a friendly match with the Czech national team. The French were losing 0-2 when Emme Jaque decided to bring on the 22-year-old Zidane, who was playing in “Bordeaux” at that time. The latter got involved in the match in a fantastic way and by capturing the goal of the Czechs twice in the 80th and 82nd minutes, he saved his team from defeat. 1998 The home team won the World Championship held in France, and in the final they won 3-0 against the Brazilian national team, and two of those goals were scored by this Algerian football player.
2000 the European Championship also ended with the victory of the “tricolors” and Zizu showed himself as a real leader in that tournament. In addition, he became the author of 2 goals, scoring once against the Spaniards and the “golden” goal against the Portuguese in the semi-finals. Instead, 2002 was extremely unsuccessful for them. the world championship, because the French left the fight at the group stage and suffered 2 defeats in total, once they ended the game with a draw. As for Zidane, he missed the first 2 matches due to injury, and in the last match he was unable to save his team. In the “old world” championship of 2004, the French team scored 7 points in the group stage and came out of the group with the first place. However, in the 1/4 final stage, they lost to the future winners of the tournament, the Greeks. Zizu participated in all the matches, and scored a double in the match with the English team, and also scored a goal in the match with the Swiss national team.
in 2006 the world championship became the last tournament in which Zidane participated. There he was the captain of the team and naturally participated in all matches, except for the match against Togo, which he missed due to suspension. The French confidently reached the final, where the opponent was the Italian team. With the help of Zinedine Zidane’s penalty kick, the “tricolors” opened the score, but “Squadra Azzura” restored the balance of the score thanks to Marco Materazzi’s shot. In the end, these two football players appeared in the center of attention of the whole world. During the game, Zidane and Materazzi were running close to each other, and suddenly Marco whispered something to Zizou, who turned and hit the Italian’s chest with his head, knocking him to the ground. The referee immediately removed the Frenchman from the field.
As a result, the demoralized French team lost to the Italian team in the penalty shootout after the game.
This is how the career of such a football genius as Zinedine Zidane ended. Of course, that episode was discussed a lot later, and he personally mentioned that there, Materazzi provoked him, insulting his family, and because of that, he could not control himself, so he hit the Italian. Zizu regretted the mistake he made, because he made a wrong decision with a hot head, but you can’t turn back time. Now it is already mentioned that those two football players reconciled with each other.
Regardless of everything, Zizou wrote his name in golden letters in the history of world football.