Here his form caught the attention of then Blackburn manager, Ray Haford who begged his chairman to sign this balding Frenchman nobody had heard of.Ĭhairman Jack Walker replied “Why do you need Zidane when you have Tim Sherwood?”. In 1992 the young prodigy transfered to Bordeaux edging his way up the ladder of footballing fame. With Cannes he would score 6 goals in 61 appearances and help them to a historic 4th place finish, the clubs highest since returning to the top flight in 1949.
Even at 14 Zidane was head and shoulders above his piers.
His talents impressed the Cannes coach, Jean Claude Elineau, so much that he invited him to live with his family. The teen age Zidane was then set to begin his playing career with Cannes.īy this time of course, Zidane had left his family. His love of football, born in that square, took him to a local youth club where he stayed until the age of 14. Despite their lack of knowledge on the subject they still knew who what this player was super human.Ī young Zidane, some say with the famous bald patch even then, first kicked a football in the square of his apartment block located on “the wrong side of the tracks” in Marseille. “The guy with the bald patch, the one that looks like a monk” those outside football would say, “isn’t he the best in the world now?”. When we football fans watched the great Zinedine Zidane step onto a pitch and turn it into his playground, we knew exactly what professor X was talking about.Īt every stage of his career, in any game he played, Zidane was a player who would inspire fans young and old to find their nearest football so they could try their best to mimic the tricks and flicks they had just seen the legendary Frenchman dazzle them with.Īn icon of the beautiful game, he was known world wide by not just football fanatics. Stay in the conversation on all things FIFA 14, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.The intro to almost all of the X-Men movies is monologue narrated by professor X informing us on the next stages of human evolution and that individuals with super human abilities may already be among us. Pre-Order today to get access to 24 Ultimate Team packs for FIFA Ultimate Team and other cool in-game content (where applicable). FIFA 14 releases at the end of September.
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