Zinedine Zidane won almost everything during his career. Winner of the World Cup with the Blues in 1998, he had indeed gave this two years later to the Euro. And two years later, the native of Marseille won the Champions League with Real Madrid after having registered one of the most beautiful goals in the history of competition thanks to an incredible resumption of the volley.
However, having won the Ballon d'Or “Is one of the best days of (his) life …”, he explained in 2019, adding: “It's good to have this trophy. This is something that is well done. In addition, it was the French who organized it, so it's good. It was a fantastic idea, because everyone gives interest in this. »»
By his own admission, the former Bordeaux had a little twisted in 1998 at the idea of winning the trophy. “I was a little too happy the weeks before the vote. I ignited myself a little in a few interviews, he said. I have never been style to say “I deserve this or that. But with this Ballon d'Or, in 1998, I told myself a little. It was not too much but I wanted so much to have it ”, had he entrusted to his 50e Birthday, adding: “I was the best player in the world. It doesn't happen often. »»
“It's a shock image in the votes”
Zinedine Zidane could have won two other Ballon d'Or. But that was without counting two … Balls. “In 2006, I don't need to explain why he doesn't have it. Second shot. World Cup final, high class. He would have had it, even if France had lost. Cannavaro would not have doubled Zidane. It would have been Zidane for sure ”, Thus entrusted Gérard Ejnes, former editorial director of France Football.
And it would have been the same in 2000 if his nerves had not dropped in the fall. “Zidane gave 2 gold balloons. In 2000, in November, right during the votes, he put a boost to a Hamburg player in the Champions League. Fair-play is one of the criteria. It is a shocking image in the middle of the votes. In the end he finds himself 7 votes behind Figo “recalled the former journalist.
