After the 125-year OM celebrations at the Vélodrome stadium (him the most famous Marseille native on the planet) then the jubilee of Djibril Cissé in Auxerre (despite calls from the former striker), Zinédine Zidane will miss another gala match, this time with the varieties of France. The FC Nantes Foundation is indeed organizing a “Legends match”, on Tuesday June 3 in Beaujoire, with some of its most illustrious players, facing the varieties.
“Zizou” is sometimes called upon by Jacques Vendroux, the 77 -year -old journalist who is the principal leader of the Varieties Club de France, for gala matches. He would have largely had his place alongside his former teammates of the French team Marcel Desailly, Nicolas Gillet, Claude Makelele, Christian Karembeu, Eric Carrière, Robert Pirès and Patrice Loko.
Zidane has a little story with FC Nantes, since the number 10 of the French Champion of the World Champion 98 and winner of Euro 2000 scored his first goal in the Canaries, on February 10, 1991, at the Bocca. He had taken speed of Desailly! With AS Cannes then the Girondins de Bordeaux, Zinedine Zidane faced Nantes no less than 13 times. During the 94-95 season with the FCGB, “Zizou” scored at the Beaujoire during a 3-3 zero result, before scoring a double to Dominique Casagrande during a 3-0 on the return.
Without Zidane or Deschamps
We will also find Alain Giressse, Yoann Gourcuff, Dominique Rocheteau, Marius Trésor, Sonny Anderson, Daniel Van Buyten, Souleymane Diawara, Shabani Nonda or Teddy Riner and Cyril Gane in the variety team. The legends of FC Nantes Japhet Ndoram, Jean-Claude Suaudeau, Marama Vahirua, Maxime Bossis, Loïc Amisse, Vahid Halilhodzic or Jean-Paul Bertrand request will delight the Ligerian public from 7 to 77 years old.
Didier Deschamps will not crowd the lawn of his training club and for good reason, the coach of the French team will be preparing the semi-final of the League of Nations against Spain, scheduled two days later in Stuttgart.
