Zinedine Zidane and his tricolor teammates, crowned world champions in 1998, met this Wednesday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the feat. An unexpected scene would have occurred.
The quarter century has been reached. This Wednesday July 12, exactly twenty-five years after the coronation of the Blues of Aimé Jacquet in the final of the 1998 World Cup (3-0 victory, against Brazil), Zinedine Zidane gathered around him some of the tricolor heroes. The invitation was general, a dozen former glories were able to respond positively. On the program, a day necessarily centered on football and organized in the five-a-side football complex of “Zizou”, located near Aix-en-Provence. Among the world champions present, Didier Deschamps. Absent from the last dinners between former 98, the coach of the Blues this time participated with pleasure. With the key, an unexpected moment with Christophe Dugarry.
Because according to RMCwhich quotes this Wednesday the entourage of the two men, “DD” and “Duga” ” played padel together this morning“. Almost a miracle and an affirmation not so easy to believe, as the enmity between the two men has been displayed in recent years by the media. Often very critical of the game offered by the France team of coach Didier Deschamps, Christophe Dugarry did not win the favor of his former teammate with the Blues. But these twenty-five years of anniversary have therefore allowed the two world and European champions with France to get closer. At least the time of this small game of padel, a game that Didier Deschamps is fond of.
Indelible memories
As for Bernard Diomède Alain Baghossian, Bixente Lizarazu, Lionel Charbonnier, Zinedine Zidane, Fabien Barthez or even Christian Karembeu, they feasted during a Five tournament, followed by a gala dinner and a concert. Time passes, but nothing erases these indelible memories of 1998.
