Zidane was unique. He had a fluidity and intelligence to his play that has never been replicated. The ball seemed to work for Zidane rather the Zidane working for the ball. Poetry on a pitch.
Zidane is special, the calmness and focus is 100% .. he is so majestic, he is like a unicorn, you can see all those player are not a newbie but training whole life for this but none of them know what zidane going to do, you will think zidane will do this, but he was not, he still stood there watching you falling by yourself..
Zidane is a master of ball control, midfield control, never losing the ball whatever the circumstance and know very good dribbling His roulette at high speed and done at the right timing is a master piece any dribbler should copy His back heel change of direction dribble. And the way he does stepover is also something that a dribbler should copy very effective tricks
Absolute genious. And you can see in his style a mashup of all the players he admired when he was young : Socrates, Waddle, Francescoli. It's not about the amount of goals or statistics, which is a priority for young players today, but it's about the influence you have on the game and the beauty of the game. Zidane is up there with Cruyff and Maradona.
People say De Bruyne is a complete midfielder and he is close but Zidane was the ultimate midfielder, the best I've seen in 30 years. He was a master at every aspect of the game.
@@F0_0 you havent seen Zidane long range through passings and crossings. He is Zidane for many reasons. But sure KDB is one of the best midfielder currently
Majestic. The vision, strength, poise, touch & skill of this man left a massive impression on me. Look at the perfect weight he puts on the ball for himself & his teammates. The ball slows down, but not long enough for opponents to realise what just happened, & they’re caught! What a privilege to have seen him go about it.
I don't really understand Zidane's movement. I just can't break it down. I've never seen anyone move like him. I was very young when he was still around so I didn't get to watch him play but every time I see clips of him it puzzles me, I can't figure out what it is that makes him look so unique and I can't figure out why it's so effective. There are a few guys that even if you just saw their silhouette you'd be able to tell who they were just based on how they move, like Ronaldo and Messi for instance, Ronaldo is extremely explosive with every little movement he makes, very fast twitch muscle fibers, Messi with the ball glued to his feet and some insane agility being able to defy gravity, and then there's Zidane, you glance at him as he starts moving and you might think at first that he's some random slow guy that plays football with his mates for fun, everything moves in slow motion, but then somehow every little touch of the ball is unbelievably precise and effective and it just all flows so smoothly. I feel like you could get people to mimic the way Ronaldo/Messi move to a certain extent (obviously no one would be anywhere near as good at it) and have it look convincing, you could mimic Ronaldo's fast feet with his stepovers, you could mimic Messi's shoulder drop and his crazy feints, etc., because their style of movement is easy to break down, you can see it for what it is but I doubt anyone could mimic Zidane's movement, everything he does looks like it's something that shouldn't be happening. His style is legitimately one of a kind.
Very well written. He really was a marvel. Even his arm movements look quite odd and deliberate. He could control the ball so deftly and delicately and then was able to rapidly generate a lot of power almost instantly with minimal movement. Let’s not even go into his accuracy. What a player.
Well said. One of the all time greatest dribblers, without needing extra fancy moves. The precision and finesse he had with the ball just made it look so effortless. It's deceptively simple until you realize he's making fools out of the best defenders in the world.
The thing about Zidane that is often overlooked and made him so dangerous was his unpredictability. He would start slow, first 10 mins knock balls all over, then would start passing short, maybe give a little darting run first 15, then he would starting using all three randomly. It used to leave defences unsure. He could get the ball run with it and then off load or receive knock a 40 yard pass and not get it again the whole play. The reason he glides pass people is because it was normally second half and they were so mentally exhausted they just tried to keep up. Zidane was a maestro and I very rarely use the phrase. Paul scholars is another I would group in the same category but Zidane will always be my king
I guess it came down to how unpredictable he was? He didn't need to be fast, other players approached him with caution because they had no idea what's gonna come next.
Excellent analysis. It's "all in the touch" [Zidane was always a few steps ahead because when he receives the ball, he orients it in a certain direction, which makes him dominant even when he appears to be slow]. The other thing that makes him great [he also talks about that], is that he dribbles when it's absolutely necessary; he's not going to bring the ball up just for the sake of dribbling. Because of that, he's the only player who looks stellar without the ball on his feet - he loves giving it back to teammates. Definitely the greatest midfield mastermind who's ever played
6:25 The most iconic french football commentator duo, Thierry Roland (RIP) and Jean-Michel Larqué, it brings so much memories from my teenage years... Platini was amazing but oh boy Zidane was a master at this game.
playing football never looked so easy when you watch Zidane. And yet what he does is top top class. He is a gift for us, for the people who love football. French commentators are calm and never yell except when zidane is playing xD
Zizou and Riquelme, last of the true pure center midfielders, tempo control. when they played against each other, Villareal vs Real Madrid, was incredible. They even swapped jerseys.
He an amazing game for sure but the single greatest performance? Cmon man! Wasn’t even his best performance. You know he scored twice in 98 final right?
@@bobbye4731 , performance doesn't only mean scoring goals. The way he dominated that match with ease and beauty is simply outstanding. Of course, everyone has their own favourites.
LOLOL How old are you dude? Best performance? Nobody ever reached the level of Maradona in 1986 against Belgium and England. The highest level of football ever to this day. Maradona makes Zidane's performances look like a training session of seniors
With his intelligence, touch and intuition he could have played much longer. I was surprised when he ended his career at 33. He could easily have played 5 more years at top level. He was amazing.
I remember thinking he was amazing but looked like a weird French man that should be a monk not a footballer. Also first player I've seen to puke on the pitch everytime he took a penalty. Strange ritual.
Zidane was a magician because nobody had a first touch like him. Only player who has come close to having a first touch like Zidane was Berbatov. But you can't compare him to anyone really. He was uniquely amazing. The king of first touch, flicks and pirouettes.
Zidane , Ronaldo nazario , Ronaldinho, figo, Rivaldo, Roberto Calos, Thierry Henry, Pirlo, David Beckham, Deco, Raul, Nesta, Maldini ,Puyol, Rud vanesteroy and more in the same generation what happened to football cause there is no more this amount of quality these day
I first got intrigued by the name of Zidane when some team mate at Girondins Bordeaux told the press "Zidane has hands where other people have feet". He combined a silk touch, perfect body coordination and physical strength almost to perfection. And every move he did on the field, even the craziest back-heel passes and piriouettes, served some functional purpose. Nothing he did was for pure show for the TV cameras as it is the case with so many other technically gifted players.
Zidane ball control is incredible. Even he wasn't with the ball he uses his team mate to get through defenders. A skill that not even messi or R9 can do. But the most important part of football is to win. They don't care you push , you dive as long as 90 minutes you are leading you are the champion.
Je pense que ce genre de vidéo devrait être regardée décortiquée et appliqué dans les écoles de foot!! Je ne comprends pas que l'on ne vois pas ça plus souvent ce genre de jeu collectif en un touche de balle venue d'ailleurs. C'est juste magique. Content d'avoir pu vivre ça ! Lol
Football will never be a joke to Zidane. He's too tasteful and graceful for making a joke of it. He respects the game and played with elegance. And as said in the beginning of the video "all geniuses are flaud...". As true as it is, also includes the word genius, headbutts included.
I cannot understand why Zizou is not mentioned among the GOATs. A much more complete player than CR. His dribbling is easily comparable to that of Messi and Maradona, though he was better at aerial ball control. Perhaps not the mot prolific goal scorer, but like Johan Cruyff said, "never compare a great player with a great goal scorer." Two very different things. Obviously, you need both, but where would the goal scorers be without the touch, the vision, the passing, and the dribbling of the playmakers? Only the chosen few could do it like Zizou. IMO, a very underrated player.
I've never really watched him play, but from what I've seen in multiple videos he is the most technically complete player I have ever seen. Maybe his consistency wasn't always up there, as well as the fact that he was not a forward, which typically take the glory. But the elegance and ease of play is incompatible with anyone else. He looks like a pro playing against kids, not professional footballers
here is the reason why Zidane is better than Ronaldo and Messi: As you mentioned he is at least on par with both of them at every level of the game except speed. Sure he didn't score as many goals as those two, but here comes the deal... He only scored the imprtant ones. It was like he wasn't playing serious most of the time, but when he noticed his team needed him the most he stepped in, switched to his game face and decided the game by the winning goal or the equalizer. He literally bossed the game
...you could make a metaphor with a pin ball machine. Zidane gets rid of the ball but it keeps finding its way back to him. His team players seem to me that they want to pass the ball back to him. Perhaps this is why someone commented in a documentary that the french team look up to Zidane to lead them. Interesting.
Need more videos on Zidane. So that younger fans understand that if not better than he was on Par with Messi And Ronaldo. For me, he was better than both.
@mm43501 not only stats. Messi is better than zidane in passing, dribbling, freekicks and obviously goalscoring and playmaking. Zidane is only better in ball progression. Messi is a pure joy to watch. And is consistent as well.
@@frontrunner9138 lol no he’s not. Zidane at 35 came out of retirement and bossed the legendary Brazil team of Cafu Roberto Carlos R9 Kaka etc. at the 2006 World Cup (in every department that you just mentioned). At 35, he won the player of the tournament at the World Cup with mesmerizing performances against Spain Brazil and Italy. At 35, Messi is struggling to score more than 4 goals in the French league. There’s levels.
He could have played as a regista and prolonged his carrier. Unfortunately nowadays we are faced with RUclips clips of young players put together by their agents making 2 sideway passes or stopping a ball then hearing they are worth 100 million on the transfer market
Messi and cr7 fan boys will never understand the genius this guy was when I see them jamming every football post you would think football was never played before those two people played.
Messi is the GOAT, not just because of stats, but because of the way he plays. Zidane, IMO, is very close as a playmaker, dribbler, passer. He just wasn't that prolific of a goal scorer. Even so, he's way above CR. I don't think he gets the recognition he deserves.
@@piscesman54 Zidane was a true 10, a midfielder, his role was to create opportunities for his team. He could have scored a lot more but he was not selfish and again his role as a 10 was to make his team go forward and score.
The crazy thing about zidane is hes the undoubted alpha dog no matter who played with him. Ronaldo, Henry, Figo, Pires, Del Piero all these great players defer to Zidane.
@@Nicks721 Not really, Ronaldo just like all the other players, they all listened when Zizou talked! He's a true leader, so I am guessing this is what Hanniel was referring to when he said Alpha!
@@blackwaterproduction289 yeah I don't disagree, Ronaldo wasn't deaf so he probably listened when Zidane talked. I am only saying that he was better player
Zidane is unlike the current players who heavily rely on speed. He's slow by today's standards but still need to speed down to watch his movements. Thats how great he is
The great thing about European Football is that he can accurately compare today's players versus yesterday's players, without any "but but but the game is different today..." excuses. LOL
One thing I notice with zidane is the his football work and ball control made it look like his foot was a giant blue tack He’s a great player abs he played sone nice football
It looks very easy and no flashy moves but it all comes down to manipulating your opponent. Notice how many of them trip, it's because he quickly swaps direction when they change weight on their feet. You also saw this behavior with Ronaldinho but he also liked to do flashy stuff obviously.
Zidane brought grace to the game and the idea that there were different ways to dominate it. In his case, above all, the certainty for his team members that there was always someone who knew the answer. Be that as it may, in the first minutes of this video at least, the frivolous maneuvers are surprisingly often followed by sloppy, uninspired, and imprecisely timed passes, so the benefit of the trick goes to waste. It probably still had an effect because it unsettles the opponent in the medium term. But there is also beauty in the precision of simple things that he too seldom recognizes here. Is it still beautiful? Certainly! Does it celebrate the beauty of the game as much as his personal artistry? To be completely honest, a little less often than one would like.
Zidane a rendu tout le peuple algérien fière de lui il fais partie des meilleurs joueurs de tous les temps,ont aiment beaucoup Merci Zidane et vive l'Algérie
زيدان اصله جزائري و ليس فرنسي و انت تعلم ذلك و الكل يعلم ذلك و حتى لو أردت ان تكون فرنسي فلن تستطيع ان تكون فرنسي لان بكل بساطة لست فرنسي و حتى الفرنسيون لن يعتبروك احدا منهم وان لم تصدقني فجرب فسوف ترى النتيجة
@@moussazoubir5008 زيدان فرنسي و كأس العالم مخزون في فرنسا و ليس الجزائر و زيدان يعيش في فرنسا و ليس الجزائر و زيدان قام بجنسية فرنسية نكر أصله كل هذه الأدلة لا تكفيك 😂😂 الجزائر 0000
هذه هي عقليتكم أخي دائما تريدون ان تجادلو بلا دليل تحكمون على الناس هكذا و لكنك لا تعرف اي شيء عن زيدان تقول أنه نكر اصله و هذا كلام غير صحيح،قال ان الجزائر في قناة فرنسية انا اصوله جزائرية،روح تبيع الزلابية على روحك هذا ما تعرفو غير تعاكسو فالهدرة
تصدقني أخي راك غايضني علابالك و الله ما علاباليش علاش انا نهدر معاك سيريو و انت تضحك،ان شاء الله ربي يهديك راك تبانلي مغبون شوية و راك باغي تفاجي شوية على روحك
De Bruyne is the closest we have to Zidane now. He gets more goals, but hasn't quite got that presence that Zidane had in the biggest matches. He still has time though.
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Zidane was unique. He had a fluidity and intelligence to his play that has never been replicated. The ball seemed to work for Zidane rather the Zidane working for the ball. Poetry on a pitch.
100% agree, plus he was physically strong af. This combination is super rare, especially nowadays, one of the top 5 ever.
He is one who will not repeated
i would say iniesta comes pretty close.
@@dancm5929 nope he is no where near Zidane no one is
@@dancm5929 no don't agree
It's amazing how Zidane dominated the game, the dude was the absolute boss especially in big games. Magician, genius!
Indeed Sir! :)
Zidane is special, the calmness and focus is 100% .. he is so majestic, he is like a unicorn, you can see all those player are not a newbie but training whole life for this but none of them know what zidane going to do, you will think zidane will do this, but he was not, he still stood there watching you falling by yourself..
It's as though most players need to do a choregraphy to achieve what Zidane does in one touch of the ball.
He's a head-butting doofus
Zidane is a master of ball control, midfield control, never losing the ball whatever the circumstance and know very good dribbling
His roulette at high speed and done at the right timing is a master piece any dribbler should copy
His back heel change of direction dribble. And the way he does stepover is also something that a dribbler should copy very effective tricks
I agree completely although not so sure about the unicorn bit.
Luckily for Materazzi he is not a unicorn!
Absolute genious. And you can see in his style a mashup of all the players he admired when he was young : Socrates, Waddle, Francescoli. It's not about the amount of goals or statistics, which is a priority for young players today, but it's about the influence you have on the game and the beauty of the game. Zidane is up there with Cruyff and Maradona.
C’est vrai
Couldn't agree more. Incredible player
People say De Bruyne is a complete midfielder and he is close but Zidane was the ultimate midfielder, the best I've seen in 30 years. He was a master at every aspect of the game.
Modric>De Bruyne
De Bruyne strength is passing
Zidanes is dribbling
They interpreted the role different
And modric is just incredible
@@F0_0 I've got a lot of respect for Modric and De Bruyne as i love watch them play
But Zidane was on another level for me
@@F0_0 you havent seen Zidane long range through passings and crossings. He is Zidane for many reasons. But sure KDB is one of the best midfielder currently
Majestic. The vision, strength, poise, touch & skill of this man left a massive impression on me. Look at the perfect weight he puts on the ball for himself & his teammates. The ball slows down, but not long enough for opponents to realise what just happened, & they’re caught! What a privilege to have seen him go about it.
...But the strongest of them all...
Zinedine Zidane, Zinedine Zidane
Superstar, superstar
He was the definition of a number 10 for me.. he didnt need a good team, he made every team better
@Max -x chill bro, i just wanted to say, he was like a director and Real and France to that time, excecly knew how to use this talent
His calmness with the ball were phenomenal.
Was :)
I don't really understand Zidane's movement. I just can't break it down. I've never seen anyone move like him. I was very young when he was still around so I didn't get to watch him play but every time I see clips of him it puzzles me, I can't figure out what it is that makes him look so unique and I can't figure out why it's so effective.
There are a few guys that even if you just saw their silhouette you'd be able to tell who they were just based on how they move, like Ronaldo and Messi for instance, Ronaldo is extremely explosive with every little movement he makes, very fast twitch muscle fibers, Messi with the ball glued to his feet and some insane agility being able to defy gravity, and then there's Zidane, you glance at him as he starts moving and you might think at first that he's some random slow guy that plays football with his mates for fun, everything moves in slow motion, but then somehow every little touch of the ball is unbelievably precise and effective and it just all flows so smoothly.
I feel like you could get people to mimic the way Ronaldo/Messi move to a certain extent (obviously no one would be anywhere near as good at it) and have it look convincing, you could mimic Ronaldo's fast feet with his stepovers, you could mimic Messi's shoulder drop and his crazy feints, etc., because their style of movement is easy to break down, you can see it for what it is but I doubt anyone could mimic Zidane's movement, everything he does looks like it's something that shouldn't be happening. His style is legitimately one of a kind.
Very well written. He really was a marvel. Even his arm movements look quite odd and deliberate. He could control the ball so deftly and delicately and then was able to rapidly generate a lot of power almost instantly with minimal movement. Let’s not even go into his accuracy. What a player.
Well said. One of the all time greatest dribblers, without needing extra fancy moves. The precision and finesse he had with the ball just made it look so effortless. It's deceptively simple until you realize he's making fools out of the best defenders in the world.
The thing about Zidane that is often overlooked and made him so dangerous was his unpredictability. He would start slow, first 10 mins knock balls all over, then would start passing short, maybe give a little darting run first 15, then he would starting using all three randomly. It used to leave defences unsure. He could get the ball run with it and then off load or receive knock a 40 yard pass and not get it again the whole play. The reason he glides pass people is because it was normally second half and they were so mentally exhausted they just tried to keep up. Zidane was a maestro and I very rarely use the phrase. Paul scholars is another I would group in the same category but Zidane will always be my king
I guess it came down to how unpredictable he was? He didn't need to be fast, other players approached him with caution because they had no idea what's gonna come next.
Excellent analysis. It's "all in the touch" [Zidane was always a few steps ahead because when he receives the ball, he orients it in a certain direction, which makes him dominant even when he appears to be slow]. The other thing that makes him great [he also talks about that], is that he dribbles when it's absolutely necessary; he's not going to bring the ball up just for the sake of dribbling. Because of that, he's the only player who looks stellar without the ball on his feet - he loves giving it back to teammates. Definitely the greatest midfield mastermind who's ever played
6:25 The most iconic french football commentator duo, Thierry Roland (RIP) and Jean-Michel Larqué, it brings so much memories from my teenage years... Platini was amazing but oh boy Zidane was a master at this game.
playing football never looked so easy when you watch Zidane. And yet what he does is top top class. He is a gift for us, for the people who love football. French commentators are calm and never yell except when zidane is playing xD
Zizou and Riquelme, last of the true pure center midfielders, tempo control. when they played against each other, Villareal vs Real Madrid, was incredible. They even swapped jerseys.
Ne compare jamais Zidane a riquelme ,le premier est une légende l autre un bon joueur pas plus
Fuoriclasse, Genio, Maestro. He was the game.
Give me Zidane and 10 other woods. ~Sir Alex Ferguson
How about Zidane and 10 Maguire?
@@DerekPaksa damn that means a Maguire as goalkeeper.
scary shit.
Does sir alex ferguson know he said this ?
@@DerekPaksa _UNDERRATED!!!_ 😂😂😂😂
@@DerekPaksa bruh🤣🤣🤣
Zidane vs. Brazil in 2006 is still the greatest single performance by a football player. He was in God mode in that match
That`s what I always thought. They crazy thing is that this was his 3rd last football-game ever in the age of 34.
He an amazing game for sure but the single greatest performance? Cmon man! Wasn’t even his best performance. You know he scored twice in 98 final right?
@@bobbye4731 , performance doesn't only mean scoring goals. The way he dominated that match with ease and beauty is simply outstanding. Of course, everyone has their own favourites.
Great match, but don't forget Roberto Baggio against Nigeria at USA 94!!!
LOLOL How old are you dude? Best performance? Nobody ever reached the level of Maradona in 1986 against Belgium and England. The highest level of football ever to this day. Maradona makes Zidane's performances look like a training session of seniors
Zidane was the Man against boys, whether you played alongside or against you.
Zidane n'est comparable à aucun joueur 🇫🇷♥️
C’est réel
Tu as bien raison, zidane me donne presque la larme à l'oeil tellement c est majestueux. Magnifique zidane
@@osh1ya431 ✌️❤️
@@gaelbertoni1270 🙏❤️
With his intelligence, touch and intuition he could have played much longer. I was surprised when he ended his career at 33. He could easily have played 5 more years at top level. He was amazing.
He ended it up at 36
Zizou , once in a generation player. The master of the game 🙏
He made me know how beautiful football game is
He's the perfect example of skill, pace, vision and execution without the shthousery...
My favourite player ever. A pitty these great talents grow old and leave football.
The incomparable legend Zinedine Yasid Zidane.
yaZid
Yazid* :)
Zizou is all about the Z’s 😃
this is therapeutic. thanks for the compilation, and thanks to zizou for the moments.
I dont know better player than Zizou
Learnt how to dominate and control in football
As an 11 year old football obsessed English kid I remember being in absolute awe at his Euro 2000 performance he was almost faultless in every game
I remember thinking he was amazing but looked like a weird French man that should be a monk not a footballer. Also first player I've seen to puke on the pitch everytime he took a penalty. Strange ritual.
L’intelligence technique !! Vision laser !! Précision propre football
Marseille 1992 about Zidane " no he's way too slow we don't want him "
Zidane was a magician because nobody had a first touch like him. Only player who has come close to having a first touch like Zidane was Berbatov. But you can't compare him to anyone really. He was uniquely amazing. The king of first touch, flicks and pirouettes.
That back heel caress off Henry’s corner which leads to a goal brings tears to my eyes
omg that just happened to me too 😂 magic.
For Zidane and Ronaldinho Football is just a game. Us mere human would never understand how outrageous that was.
He was impressive on casual games and legendary on important events.
So elegant !
His playstyle is so smooth thats crazy
Zidane dribbled past defenders like they didn't exist. The man was disrespectful haha
Best player all time ❤🇫🇷
Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo. 8 minutes de pure jouissance !
"Give me Zidane and 10 pieces of wood, and I'll win you the Champions League"
- Sir Alex Ferguson
He is hypnotizing to his opponents!
Zidane , Ronaldo nazario , Ronaldinho, figo, Rivaldo, Roberto Calos, Thierry Henry, Pirlo, David Beckham, Deco, Raul, Nesta, Maldini ,Puyol, Rud vanesteroy and more in the same generation what happened to football cause there is no more this amount of quality these day
the way he uses the space around him is absolutely magical.
Legend of Football 👍
Zidane is the second most artistic player after the legendary Diego Maradona.
Zidane serves a lot for football. For very few, we can use a word "Great" both as a player as well as a coach.
ഗോൾ അടിക്കുന്നതിനേക്കാൾ ഗോൾ അടിപ്പിക്കാനും,, ഗോളിന് വഴിയൊരു ക്കുന്നതും കാണാൻ എന്ത് രസമാണ്.... zizuo🔥
I first got intrigued by the name of Zidane when some team mate at Girondins Bordeaux told the press "Zidane has hands where other people have feet". He combined a silk touch, perfect body coordination and physical strength almost to perfection. And every move he did on the field, even the craziest back-heel passes and piriouettes, served some functional purpose. Nothing he did was for pure show for the TV cameras as it is the case with so many other technically gifted players.
Zidane against Brazil... 2 amazing matches i will never forget
Congratulations 🥳👏 Zizou become a granddad
Toujours zizo l homme ⚽️
He was better. It was magical to see him.
Il avait la meilleure touche,brillant et très talentueux,le meilleur de son époque!
Zidane ball control is incredible. Even he wasn't with the ball he uses his team mate to get through defenders. A skill that not even messi or R9 can do. But the most important part of football is to win. They don't care you push , you dive as long as 90 minutes you are leading you are the champion.
Looks like he is playing on easy mode because everything is easy for him 😂
2006 Zidane was insane.
Je pense que ce genre de vidéo devrait être regardée décortiquée et appliqué dans les écoles de foot!! Je ne comprends pas que l'on ne vois pas ça plus souvent ce genre de jeu collectif en un touche de balle venue d'ailleurs. C'est juste magique. Content d'avoir pu vivre ça ! Lol
Aujourd’hui les joueurs jouent juste pour eux, leurs statistiques.
He always have options, and picks the option you'd least expect.
Football will never be a joke to Zidane. He's too tasteful and graceful for making a joke of it. He respects the game and played with elegance. And as said in the beginning of the video "all geniuses are flaud...". As true as it is, also includes the word genius, headbutts included.
He was filthy. Best of his generation and certainly top 3-4 of all time best
I cannot understand why Zizou is not mentioned among the GOATs. A much more complete player than CR. His dribbling is easily comparable to that of Messi and Maradona, though he was better at aerial ball control. Perhaps not the mot prolific goal scorer, but like Johan Cruyff said, "never compare a great player with a great goal scorer." Two very different things. Obviously, you need both, but where would the goal scorers be without the touch, the vision, the passing, and the dribbling of the playmakers? Only the chosen few could do it like Zizou. IMO, a very underrated player.
I've never really watched him play, but from what I've seen in multiple videos he is the most technically complete player I have ever seen. Maybe his consistency wasn't always up there, as well as the fact that he was not a forward, which typically take the glory. But the elegance and ease of play is incompatible with anyone else. He looks like a pro playing against kids, not professional footballers
He was a midfielder, not a forward...
No he isn't underrated! For many people, he is the best of all time
here is the reason why Zidane is better than Ronaldo and Messi:
As you mentioned he is at least on par with both of them at every level of the game except speed. Sure he didn't score as many goals as those two, but here comes the deal... He only scored the imprtant ones.
It was like he wasn't playing serious most of the time, but when he noticed his team needed him the most he stepped in, switched to his game face and decided the game by the winning goal or the equalizer. He literally bossed the game
Every player: we have a tough match today.
Zizou: You guys mean it’s time for FIFA PlayStation?
...you could make a metaphor with a pin ball machine. Zidane gets rid of the ball but it keeps finding its way back to him. His team players seem to me that they want to pass the ball back to him. Perhaps this is why someone commented in a documentary that the french team look up to Zidane to lead them. Interesting.
poetry in motion like Johan Cruijff
never stop watching this legend
Need more videos on Zidane. So that younger fans understand that if not better than he was on Par with Messi And Ronaldo. For me, he was better than both.
Messi is by far the best ever. No comparison with Zidane
@@Nicks721 lol, when players like Ronaldo R9 and Ronaldinho say the best ever player is Zidane, you know he’s the GOAT. No need for stats.
@@shahzadirani source: trust me bro
@mm43501 not only stats. Messi is better than zidane in passing, dribbling, freekicks and obviously goalscoring and playmaking. Zidane is only better in ball progression. Messi is a pure joy to watch. And is consistent as well.
@@frontrunner9138 lol no he’s not. Zidane at 35 came out of retirement and bossed the legendary Brazil team of Cafu Roberto Carlos R9 Kaka etc. at the 2006 World Cup (in every department that you just mentioned). At 35, he won the player of the tournament at the World Cup with mesmerizing performances against Spain Brazil and Italy.
At 35, Messi is struggling to score more than 4 goals in the French league. There’s levels.
Zizou mon frère ❤️ le best of the best 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 émotion le number One ☝️
Tu a raison, zidane c est juste majestueux, la classe , l élégance, magnifique zidane ,
Tu ne peux que aimer le football en le regardant jouer
@@gaelbertoni1270 j’aimais pas le football, jusqu’à ce que je vois jouer Zidane.
@@halmo68 magnifique réponse 👍👍👍. Tout est dit 👍
Still waiting for a player of this calibre today and so far only disappointment........
The only that can come close...KDB
@@dherniel agreed and spot on!!
@@dherniel Not really, KDB is great, but he doesn't run a football game by himself! The closest we ever got to that was Iniesta!
@@blackwaterproduction289 And Michael Laudrup
@@blackwaterproduction289 Yeah the closest we ever got was Iniesta but still too far
He could have played as a regista and prolonged his carrier. Unfortunately nowadays we are faced with RUclips clips of young players put together by their agents making 2 sideway passes or stopping a ball then hearing they are worth 100 million on the transfer market
The ease with which he played!
Messi and cr7 fan boys will never understand the genius this guy was when I see them jamming every football post you would think football was never played before those two people played.
I'm a messi fanboy and I understand that this guy was a genius on football pitch.
Messi is the GOAT, not just because of stats, but because of the way he plays. Zidane, IMO, is very close as a playmaker, dribbler, passer. He just wasn't that prolific of a goal scorer. Even so, he's way above CR. I don't think he gets the recognition he deserves.
@@piscesman54 that's your opinion you are entitled to it he is not to me though.
@@piscesman54 Zidane was a true 10, a midfielder, his role was to create opportunities for his team. He could have scored a lot more but he was not selfish and again his role as a 10 was to make his team go forward and score.
@@ShunsukeK1 I agree. That was precisely my point.
"Give me ten planks of wood and Zidane and I will win the Champions League" Alex Ferguson 😂
The crazy thing about zidane is hes the undoubted alpha dog no matter who played with him. Ronaldo, Henry, Figo, Pires, Del Piero all these great players defer to Zidane.
Ronaldo was greater. For the rest I agree
Zidane learn freekick and real football from Del piero what re u talking about?
he can be alpha only in France
@@Nicks721 Not really, Ronaldo just like all the other players, they all listened when Zizou talked! He's a true leader, so I am guessing this is what Hanniel was referring to when he said Alpha!
@@blackwaterproduction289 yeah I don't disagree, Ronaldo wasn't deaf so he probably listened when Zidane talked. I am only saying that he was better player
@@Nicks721 Each one of them is better than the other at something!
A man who has the balls to rock the mad monk hair do is a formidable character
He just maybe the best player thats ever lived. ❤ zidane
Zidane is unlike the current players who heavily rely on speed. He's slow by today's standards but still need to speed down to watch his movements. Thats how great he is
He controlled speed of the game,players had to cope with his speed...
My favorite player of all tym
What a complete player
Bro i can feel my R3 does job very well while watch this whole video.. So satisfying hahaha
Zidane will always be in my all time 11. From a Crystal Palace fan!
Zidane Figo Figo Zidane Roberto Carlos man this guys were lucky to have the honor to play with each other
I meditate to this. Really soothing.
Every movement is natural
The great thing about European Football is that he can accurately compare today's players versus yesterday's players, without any "but but but the game is different today..." excuses. LOL
The joke called "Football" Was entirely for Zidane, back then. They made the joke FOR him!
One thing I notice with zidane is the his football work and ball control made it look like his foot was a giant blue tack
He’s a great player abs he played sone nice football
It looks very easy and no flashy moves but it all comes down to manipulating your opponent. Notice how many of them trip, it's because he quickly swaps direction when they change weight on their feet. You also saw this behavior with Ronaldinho but he also liked to do flashy stuff obviously.
I was lucky to see him face to face
Nobody plays like him - legend
Very brilliant player zidan... ⚽️
Football is a joke for zidane, and 7:31 was the punchline
And that too in the freaking Euros ! The audacity!!
Zidane brought grace to the game and the idea that there were different ways to dominate it. In his case, above all, the certainty for his team members that there was always someone who knew the answer.
Be that as it may, in the first minutes of this video at least, the frivolous maneuvers are surprisingly often followed by sloppy, uninspired, and imprecisely timed passes, so the benefit of the trick goes to waste. It probably still had an effect because it unsettles the opponent in the medium term. But there is also beauty in the precision of simple things that he too seldom recognizes here.
Is it still beautiful? Certainly! Does it celebrate the beauty of the game as much as his personal artistry? To be completely honest, a little less often than one would like.
08:01 thank you for watching? What do you mean? We thank you my friend… we thank you
Zidane a rendu tout le peuple algérien fière de lui il fais partie des meilleurs joueurs de tous les temps,ont aiment beaucoup Merci Zidane et vive l'Algérie
زيدان اصله جزائري و ليس فرنسي و انت تعلم ذلك و الكل يعلم ذلك و حتى لو أردت ان تكون فرنسي فلن تستطيع ان تكون فرنسي لان بكل بساطة لست فرنسي و حتى الفرنسيون لن يعتبروك احدا منهم وان لم تصدقني فجرب فسوف ترى النتيجة
@@moussazoubir5008 زيدان فرنسي و كأس العالم مخزون في فرنسا و ليس الجزائر و زيدان يعيش في فرنسا و ليس الجزائر و زيدان قام بجنسية فرنسية نكر أصله كل هذه الأدلة لا تكفيك 😂😂
الجزائر 0000
هذه هي عقليتكم أخي دائما تريدون ان تجادلو بلا دليل تحكمون على الناس هكذا و لكنك لا تعرف اي شيء عن زيدان تقول أنه نكر اصله و هذا كلام غير صحيح،قال ان الجزائر في قناة فرنسية انا اصوله جزائرية،روح تبيع الزلابية على روحك هذا ما تعرفو غير تعاكسو فالهدرة
@@moussazoubir5008 😂😂😂ما تقدرش تجاوب زيدان فرنسي نهار أجي ايدير جنسية جزائرية ديك ساعات تاصل بيا😂😂😂👊
تصدقني أخي راك غايضني علابالك و الله ما علاباليش علاش انا نهدر معاك سيريو و انت تضحك،ان شاء الله ربي يهديك راك تبانلي مغبون شوية و راك باغي تفاجي شوية على روحك
De Bruyne is the closest we have to Zidane now. He gets more goals, but hasn't quite got that presence that Zidane had in the biggest matches. He still has time though.
Untouchable
Definitely one of the best, I also think Andres is up there
🐐 bar none.
Une élégance rare 😊
Zizou forever
Thank you very much for the editing with original commentary.
I can't stand compilations where they use dance or upbeat music...yak!
I've goosebump when I see this
Imagine a Player having Bale 2012-2015 speed and Zidane footwork