Zinedine Zidane’s Full Biography and Profile
Zinedine Zidane or more familiarly called Zizou is a former French football player who is currently a big club coach Real Madrid. He is a man of Algerian descent who was born Muslim from his father Smail Zidane and his mother named Malika Zidane. He also has four siblings.
Despite being born Muslim, in a 2014 interview, he described himself as a ‘non-practicing Muslim’.
In playing football, Zidane is known to have advantages and skills in dribbling and ball possession, making it difficult for opposing players to take the ball from him.
Zidane grew up in La Castellane, although born in Marseille, Zidane has never played for the Olympiad de Marseille. His career began when he was 14 years old, his talent for playing football was discovered by a fuel seeker and got a place at the US Academy in Cannes.
During his French league career, Zidane played for AS Cannes and Girondins Bordeaux, before being bought by Juventus for £3 million. At Juventus his career developed rapidly.
In 2001, Zidane transferred from Italian club Juventus to Real Madrid for 4 years for a transfer fee of € 66 million, which made him the most expensive soccer player in the world.
With Real Madrid, Zidane scored a 2–1 win against Bayer Leverkusen in 2001–2002 in the Champions League Final in Glasgow at Hampden Park.
In 2004, to be precise after the end of the 2004 European Cup, Zidane decided to retire from the world of international football. However, when France was having difficulty qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, in August 2005 Zidane announced his return to playing for the National team.
At the start of the two matches at the 2006 World Cup, Zidane performed poorly and even missed the third match due to accumulation of yellow cards. Then Zidane showed his best game in the next round. However, Zidane’s career ended badly when he was given a red card by referee Horacio Elizondo in the World Cup final due to headbutting Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest.
After the end of the 2006 World Cup, Zidane again decided to withdraw from the world that made his name. Precisely on April 25, 2006, Zidane officially announced his decision to withdraw from the French football club and national team after the 2006 World Cup.
Zidane was selected as the best player for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and journalists covering the event received 2012 points.
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On 7 May 2006, Zidane played his final match as host for Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium against Villarreal CF in a 3–3 draw. Real Madrid players wear special shirts with the words “Zidane 2001–2006” written under the club logo.
In Zinedine Zidane’s biography, it is known that he was voted the World Player of the Year three times (1998, 2000, 2003) and was once the European Player of the Year (1998), as well as the World Cup Player of the Year (2006).
Post-Retirement Career from Football
Even though he has retired from football, Zidane’s role in the world of football has not stopped. Zidane switched professions as a coach. His first career began in 2010 when he was appointed as a special adviser for the Real Madrid first team.
A year later, Zidane was appointed Real Madrid’s sporting director, in 2013 he was appointed assistant coach of Carlo Ancelotti at Real Madrid.
Since 2014, Zidane started to coach Real Madrid Castilla (Real Madrid B) at the same time as his son Enzo Zidane played for the club. Zidane’s achievements as a coach were quite good, he even brought the team to finish second at the end of the season.
In 2016, Zidane was officially appointed coach or manager of Real Madrid to replace Rafael Benitez who was sacked by the President of Real Madrid.
Zidane’s early career journey in coaching Real Madrid in 2016, he managed to bring the club to four major titles, namely the La Liga title, the European Champions League title, the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup.
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Real Madrid Coach of the Year award
In the following year, namely 2017, Zidane again succeeded in bringing Real Madrid to win the European Champions league. Zidane also managed to bring Real Madrid to the European Super title in 2017. This is a new record for a European coach.
Then in 2018, not long ago Zidane managed to make a Fantastic record, namely again bringing Real Madrid to win the Champions League three times in a row for three years. This is the best achievement that has never been achieved by any coach on the European continent.
Thanks to this success, it is very natural that the football public gives the title as the best coach in the world, and becomes the best coach owned by Real Madrid.
However, the world of football was again shocked by the decision given by Zidane on Thursday 31 May 2018 which said he was resigning from the position of manager of Real Madrid. This was done just five days after helping the club win the Champions League for the third time in a row.
The former France international said that ‘things have changed’.
“I love this club… the club needs to keep winning but it also needs a change, it needs a different voice, it needs another methodology. That’s why I took this decision,” Zidane said.
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