Zinedine Zidane's career as one of the greatest players in history

Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the former manager of Real Madrid. He most recently coached Real Madrid and is one of the most successful managers in the world. He is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time.

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Zidane was an elite playmaker renowned for his elegance, vision, passing, ball control, and technical prowess. He received numerous individual awards as a player, including FIFA World Player of the Year in 1998, 2000, and 2003, and the 1998 Ballon d'Or.

Zidane began his career at Cannes before establishing himself as one of the best players in the French league with Bordeaux. In 1996, he moved to Juventus, where he won titles, including two Italian league titles.

He moved to Real Madrid for a then-record transfer fee of €77.5 million in 2001, under whose name he remained for the next eight years.

In Spain, Zidane won numerous titles, including the Spanish League and the Champions League. In the 2002 Champions League final, he scored a left-footed goal that is considered one of the greatest in the history of the competition.

He played 108 times for France, and Zidane won the 1998 World Cup, scoring two goals in the final and being named to the All-Star Team. This victory made him a national hero in France, and he was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1998.

He won the Euro 2000 and was named the tournament's best player. He also received the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player at the 2006 World Cup, despite his infamous sending-off in the final against Italy for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi. He retired as France's fourth-most-capped player.

In 2004, he was named one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers, a list of the world's greatest living players compiled by Pelé, and in the same year, he was voted the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the Golden Jubilee Poll. Zidane is one of eight players to have won the World Cup, the Champions League, and the Ballon d'Or. He was an ambassador for Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup, the first Arab country to host the tournament.

After retiring as a player, Zidane moved into coaching, beginning his coaching career with Real Madrid Castilla. He remained in the position for two years before taking over the first team in 2016. In his first two and a half seasons, Zidane became the first coach to win the Champions League three times in a row, won the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup twice each, as well as one La Liga title and one Spanish Super Cup. This success led to Zidane winning the Best Men's Football Coach award in 2017. He resigned in 2018, but returned to the club as coach in 2019 and proceeded to win another La Liga title and the Spanish Super Cup.

Zinedine Yazid Zidane was born on June 23, 1972, in La Castellane, Marseille, in the south of France. He is the youngest of five siblings. Zidane is a Muslim of Kabyle Algerian descent. His parents, Ismaïl and Malika, emigrated to Paris from the village of Aguimoun in the Berber-speaking Kabylie region of northern Algeria in 1953, prior to the outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence. The family, who settled in the tough northern districts of Barbès and Saint-Denis, found little work in the area and, in the mid-1960s, moved to the northern Marseille suburb of La Castellane, in the 16th arrondissement.

It was here that Zidane's early coaches noticed he was rough and sensitive, prone to lashing out at fans who insulted his race or family. His first coach, Jean Varaud, encouraged him to channel his anger and focus on his own game. Zidane spent his first weeks in Cannes mainly on cleaning duty as punishment for punching an opponent who mocked his Jewish origins. The occasional violence he would display throughout his career was shaped by the internal struggle of being a French-Algerian suspended between cultures, surviving on the tough streets of La Castellane where he grew up.

In 2001, Zidane joined Real Madrid for a world-record fee of 150 billion Italian lire (approximately €77.5 million at the fixed exchange rate, 12.8 billion pesetas) in installments, signing a four-year contract. The latest addition to the Galactico generation, in his first season at the club, Zidane famously scored a goal in the 2002 Champions League Final, firing home with his weaker left foot from the edge of the 18-yard box in Madrid's 2–1 victory over Bayer Leverkusen. The goal has been hailed as one of the greatest goals in Champions League history. The magnitude of the shock saw Zidane perform one of his most emotional goal celebrations, running towards the touchline screaming with joy.

The following season, Zidane helped Real Madrid win the 2002–03 La Liga title, playing a key role alongside Luís Figo in midfield, and was named FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2004, fans voted him the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee poll celebrating the 50th anniversary of the European Football Association.

At the age of 17, Zidane met his future wife, Véronique Fernández (born in Aveyron of Spanish origin), while playing for Cannes during the 1988–89 season. They married in 1994 and have four sons: Enzo Zidane Fernández (born 24 March 1995), Luca Zidane Fernández (born 13 May 1998), Theo Zidane Fernández (born 18 May 2002), and Elias Zidane (born 26 December 2005).

Individual achievements La Liga Coach of the Month: April 2016, May 2017 UEFA La Liga Amazing Team of the Year: 2015–16 UEFA Champions League Surprise Breakthrough Team: 2015–16 IFFHS World's Best Coach – Runner-up: 2016 FIFA The Best Coach Award: 2017; Runner-up: 2016, 2018 Best French Coach Award: 2016, 2017 Coach of the Year by Al-Hadath newspaper: 2016 UEFA La Liga Team of the Season: 2016–17, 2019–20 France Football Champions League Team of the Season: 2016–17 Onze d'Or Coach of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18 ESPN Coach of the Year: 2017

IFFHS Club Coach of the Year: 2017, 2018 IFFHS World Team: 2017 RCM French Coach of the Year: 2017 Globe Soccer Awards Coach of the Year: 2017 World Soccer's Best Coach of the Year: 2017; Runner-up: 2018 France Football's Greatest Coach in History #22: 2019 Sports Illustrated's Greatest Manager of All Time #34: 2019 Miguel Muñoz Award: 2019–20 L'Equipe Club Coach of the Year: 2020 FourFourTwo's Greatest Coach of All Time #36: 2020 Globe Soccer Awards Coach of the Decade 2001–2020 (Runner-up)

The World's Best Coach of All Time #38 by IFFHS: 2021

Medals Legion of Honor: 1998 National Order of Merit: 2006 Legion of Honor: 2008