In Europe, Juventus made their third consecutive UEFA Champions League Final appearance, but lost the game 1 – 0 to Real Madrid, a club Zidane would later join.

Gordon also made a film about Zinedine Zidane, Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle ( 2006 ), an idea first seen in a film by Hellmuth Costard, who, in 1970, made a film about George Best titled Football as Never Before.

Zidane went on to state England had made a mistake, and described McManaman with a rare passion as one of the highest quality players he ever played with: " I was surprised when McManaman was left out of the last England squad.

Adidas, which has been providing football boots with screw-in studs to the German national side since the 1954 FIFA World Cup, have made their impact on the modern market by signing big name players as endorsers: players such as David Beckham, former France captain Zinedine Zidane, Frank Lampard, three-time world player of the year Lionel Messi, David Villa, Steven Gerrard and other successful players.

He made a string of excellent saves to keep Real Madrid ( with World Class players such as Beckham, Zidane, Raul and Ronaldo ) at bay in the second half.

Aged 19, Grella made his debut in Serie A with Empoli, in a match against Juventus at the Stadio delle Alpi, where his first job was to mark Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane retired from professional football after the 2006 World Cup.

Zidane went to Cannes for a six-week stay, but ended up remaining at the club for four years to play at the professional level.

* July 9, 2006: Zinedine Zidane headbutted Marco Materazzi during the FIFA World Cup Final and was ejected in what was his final professional football game.

His name became associated with the Los Galácticos policy when Real Madrid – where he spent most of his professional career – president Florentino Pérez promised to build a team full of Zidanes and Pavones – expensive high profile recruits like Zinedine Zidane and youth team graduates like Pavón.

In the PS1 game Final Fantasy IX, the lead protagonist, Zidane, starts off travelling with a group of thieves called Tantalus.

Players follow a young thief named Zidane Tribal, who joins with others to defeat Queen Brahne of Alexandria, the one responsible for starting the war.

The basic function of equipment in Final Fantasy games is to increase character attributes ; arming Zidane with a Mythril Vest, for example, increases his base defense statistic.

At club level Zidane won the La Liga and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A league championships with Juventus and an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned sides.

Zidane stayed with Septèmes until the age of fourteen, at which time he was selected to attend a three-day training camp at the CREPS ( Regional Centre for Sports and Physical Education ) in Aix-en-Provence, one of several such footballing institutes run by the French Football Federation.

Zidane later said that it was in living with the Elineaus that he found equilibrium.

Zidane was transferred to Girondins de Bordeaux in the 1992 – 93 season, winning the 1995 Intertoto Cup, and finishing runner-up in the 1995 – 96 UEFA Cup in four years with the club.

Players such as Ronaldo, Wesley Sneijder, David Villa, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Steven Gerrard, while being right footed, are considered good enough with either foot to be termed ' two footed ' without being truly ambidextrous.

By the time Cantona's suspension had been completed, he had lost his role as the team's playmaker to Zinédine Zidane, as Jacquet had revamped the squad with some new players.

Just as people are not all born with the ability or desire to play football ( soccer ) like Zinedine Zidane or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, people are not all born with the ability to lead.

With Zinedine Zidane unable to make an impression for Juventus against the close marking of Lambert, Dortmund lifted the trophy with a 3 – 1 victory.

Breitner is one of only four footballers to have achieved the feat of scoring in two different World Cup final matches, sharing that honour with Pelé, Vavá, and Zinédine Zidane.

Charles ' accomplishments with Juventus led to him being voted ' the greatest foreign player ever in Serie A ', ahead of Maradona, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Zinedine Zidane – this in 1997, 34 years after his last appearance in the league.

Real Madrid were again victorious when Hampden Park hosted the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final, defeating Bayer Leverkusen, with Zinedine Zidane scoring the winning goal with a left-foot volley.

As in the semi-finals of Euro 2000, Portugal were narrowly defeated by France, with the decisive goal being a penalty scored by Zinedine Zidane after Thierry Henry was awarded a penalty from a foul committed by Ricardo Carvalho.

Despite the heavy competition with the best midfielders in that time such as Zinedine Zidane, Costa was named the best number 10 player in the Serie A a few times.

After Cantona earned a year-long suspension in January 1995, the make-up of the team changed dramatically, with veterans Cantona, Jean-Pierre Papin, and David Ginola being dropped in favour of younger players such as Zinedine Zidane.

After a brief international retirement, France coach Raymond Domenech convinced Thuram to return to the French team on 17 August 2005, along with fellow " Golden Generation " teammates Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makélélé, as Les Bleus struggled to qualify for the 2006 World Cup.

However, with the return of Zinedine Zidane from brief international retirement, France would go on to reach the final of the 2006 World Cup.

Having spent 5 seasons with Lazio, Nedvěd moved to Juventus in 2001 for a fee of € 41 million as a replacement for Zinedine Zidane, who had transferred to Spain's Real Madrid the same summer.

It was here that Zidane was spotted by AS Cannes scout Jean Varraud who recommended him to the training center director of the club.

After the match during a party for all the Cannes players, Zidane was gifted a car by Cannes chairman Alain Pedretti, who had promised him one the day he scored his first goal for the club.

During this time, Cannes had a young play-maker by the name of Zinedine Zidane in its ranks.

Though the departure of Zidane and others did hurt the club, Cannes still had a solid core of players, which included veterans André Amitrano, William Ayache, Franck Durix, and Adick Koot and youngsters Johan Micoud, Patrick Vieira, David Jemmali, and Laurent Macquet.

Zidane was voted as FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions ( 1998, 2000 and 2003 ), a feat matched only by his former Real Madrid team mate Ronaldo, and also won the Ballon d ' Or in 1998.

It was in La Castellane that Zidane had his earliest introduction to football, joining in at the age of five in football games that the neighbourhood's children played on the Place Tartane, an 80-by-12-yard plaza that served as the main square of the housing complex.

Probably it's most notable home-bred footballers are definitely Dragan Džajić ( retired ), officially the best player in the history of Serbia ( the choice of the Football Association on the 50th anniversary of UEFA, known as the Golden Player ), who achieved the 3rd place at the election for the European Footballer of the Year in 1968, and is part, next to players like Zidane, Van Basten and Beckenbauer, of " the greatest European Championship XI of all time ", elected by Goal. com.

Earlier in the match, however, Keane had received a yellow card that ruled him out of the final after a trip on Zinedine Zidane.

Recalled golden generation veterans Zidane and Thuram earned spots on the All-Star Team, with Zidane being awarded the Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament despite receiving a red card in the final ( the voting was done before Zidane received the red card ).

Zidane is a Genome, created by Garland on the planet Terra to replace Kuja as a more powerful " Angel of Death.

Beckham later went on to partner with Zinedine Zidane for the launch of the Footprint Fields program.

It was widely reported in the Spanish media that McManaman's resilience to the team won the respect of his fellow professionals like Raúl, Zidane, Guti, Iván Helguera, and his two best friends and golf buddies at the club, Figo and Ronaldo, who backed him publicly on several occasions in press interviews.

In this match of monumental proportions, due to " El Clásico " being a massive game in its own right, but also the fact that it was a Champions League Semi-final, McManaman appeared as a second half substitute to score a critical goal in second half injury time to secure a 2-0 first-leg advantage, chipping over goalkeeper Roberto Bonano after being played in by Flavio Conceicao, after Zidane had scored the first goal on 55 minutes.

Makélélé decided to retire from international football in September 2004, in order to focus on club football with Chelsea, but eleven months later, in August 2005, he and compatriots Zinédine Zidane and Lilian Thuram were persuaded out of retirement to help France qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

Unlike the Quinta Del Buitre years, which favoured homegrown talent, Del Bosque's side was based mainly on expensive foreign imports such as Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo.

Despite being selected in the French national team on several occasions throughout his career, Micoud never managed to secure himself a regular starting role, mainly due to the presence of Zidane, who occupied the same position.

He has taken this lifelong love into his philosophical work, giving a lecture in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, in May 2009 on French football star Zinedine Zidane, ” A puppet or a god?

On Zidane ”, based on Douglas Gordon and Phillipe Parreno's film Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait from 2006.