Zinedine Zidane Biography

Zinedine Zidane he was a famous French

football player he was born on June 23rd

1972 in Marseille France his father's

name was smells attained and mother's

name was Mallika's attained his father

worked as a warehouseman and night

watchman at a department store and

mother was a housewife young Zidane was

introduced to the game of football at

the tender age of five along with the

neighborhood children he played the game

at the play starting which was the main

square of the housing complex

Zidane bagged his first player license

at the age of 10 for the junior team of

a local club from La Coste Lane

later he moved to so sub teams les

Valens

there he was selected for a three-day

training camp that the crepes in aches

and provence here he draw the attention

of others can scout Jean Farrow who

recommended him to the training center

director of the club

Zidane spent four years at the con

after some months he went on to stay

with con director Jean Claude Ella now

and his family Z attains professional

debut is with Khan in the lead one match

against Nantes on May 18 1989 at the age

of 17

Zidane Medes future wife Veronique

Fernandes while playing for Khan in the

1988 to 1989 season two years later in

1991 Zidane scored his first goal

against the Nantes securing his team a

2-1 win in 1992 to 1993

Zidane played for the Girondins de

Bordeaux he married in may 28 1994 at

the age of 21 and have four sons in 1996

Zidane moved to UEFA Champions League

winners Juventus for a whopping 3.2

million pounds Zidane's first stint at

the international level of football was

not as a top 11 for france but as a

substitute in a friendly match against

czech republic however he recovered

France from the 2-0 defeat to a 2-2 draw

scoring twice year 1998 was a successful

year for him who held the record of 7

goals in 32 matches Zidane's first

appearance at the fifth world cup was in

the year 1998 France was to play the

1998 FIFA World Cup final against

defending champions Brazil

he went on to hit two identical goals

both headers and France won the game and

the World Cup with 3-0 zipping selected

for Man of the Match was instantly

crowned as the national hero he won the

Ballon d'Or European Player of the Year

award once in 1998 two years later

France won the Euro 2000 thus the nation

hold both the World Cup and the European

Championship Zidane joined the Real

Madrid in the year 2001 for a venn world

record fee of 150 billion Italian lire

in the following seasons Zidane won the

2002-2003 La Liga for Real Madrid Euro

2004 was reportedly Zidane's last

tournament as he intended to retire

there after he scored his first ever

hat-trick against Sevilla FC in a 4-2

win in January 2006 and was the second

highest goal scorer for Real Madrid for

the season

Ziya Dame's last home match for the club

was on May 7th 2006 when he scored in a

3-3 draw with Villarreal Z attains

retirement came at a time when veteran

players of France were retiring -

without some of its key players France

struggled qualifying for the 2006 World

Cup as such upon the request of the then

coach Raymond Domenech Zidane came out

of retirement and was immediately

reinstated as team captain under

Zidane's captaincy France showed spark

and character as the team slowly

defeated its opponents the 2006 FIFA

World Cup final was the last match of

his career heated argument and

head-butting with Marco Materazzi earn

Zidane a red card he was not allowed to

participate in the penalty shootout

which Italy won 5-3 life is full of

regrets but it doesn't pay to look back

said zinedine zidane