Messi is the Mozart of football.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEMessi is the Mozart of football.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEI don’t know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It’s a dream.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEI once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEThere was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’s only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He’s almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’s hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEReal Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEWe are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
ZINEDINE ZIDANELife is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEZidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEYou can’t get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEEvery day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’s true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves – the good and the bad.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEEverything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
ZINEDINE ZIDANEI have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
ZINEDINE ZIDANE