Zin?dine Zidane Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Zinedine: Until my last breath. I won't say. It's too intense.

Zinedine: We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Zinedine: on the World Cup final aganist Italy It will be a physical encounter but we must not respond in kind.

Zinedine: on the respectable Brazilian national team If we are at 150 percent on D-Day, I don't see which country could trouble us apart from Brazil, obviously, because they are the only fearsome team as they have always been.

Zinedine: We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

Trivia

The nickname Zizou was given to Zidane while he played for Bordeaux.

Zidane has had sponsorship deals with companies including Adidas, Lego, Danone, Generali, France T?l?com, Orange, Audi, Ford and Christian Dior.

Zidane played his last home game for Real Madrid at the famous Santiago Bernab?u stadium on 7 May 2006.

Zidane was included in the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers by Pele in 2004.

Zidane has been elected FIFA World Player of the Year a record-tying three times (1998, 2000, 2003).

He played for France in the 1998 and the 2002 World Cup.