This is one of the small disappointments of the golden generation of the 1998 world champion of the world champion. Johan Micoud has never managed to relieve Zinédine Zidane as number 10 in the tricolor training. In the group of Blues winners of Euro 2000, the playmaker passed by Bordeaux, Parma and the Werder Bremen, was satisfied with 17 selections for a goal. He did not forget “Zizou” during the first two matches of Roger Lemerre's selection at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.
Zidane and Micoud were almost never associated on the ground, except during an offensive demonstration of the Blues in Turkey (0-4), in November 2000. Ten-up for the occasion, Johan Micoud is at the origin of the second goal by finding David Trezeguet, who served Sylvain Wiltard in front of the opposing goal. Jo Micoud then marked a distant strike, after a gap of “Zizou” full axis. Then he launched in depth Laurent Robert, who spunned the fourth goal of a cross strike from the left (74th).
Vincent Duluc, the journalist of The team In charge of the French team since the 90s, returns to this superb performance by Johan Micoud (which is now his colleague on the set of the L'Equipe channel). And imagine that the 1998 Ballon d'Or did not require more playing time with the old Parmesan …
Zidane didn't want to …
“This is the first time that Roger Lemerre has made them play both together, and we never understood why there had been no second time. It was very, very strong. It was beautiful to see. We never understood. My theory is that if there was no second time, it is that Zizou did not want it … if he had chosen … seriously, I may be wrong, but I tell myself that if for eight days, fifteen days, three months, Zizou will see Roger and said 'Fuck, with Johan, it's too good, we have to continue like that', It is not possible that it does not happen a second time “thus launched Duluc in The evening teamwhen evoking the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Euro 2000, as reported girondins4ever.com.
Four months after this meeting in the lair of Besiktas, Micoud was back on the bench of the EDF for the reception of Japan at the homeless, Robert Pirès and Christophe Dugarry accompanying Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry in the eleven. The return of Youri Djorkaeff then definitively left Johan Micoud aside in the rotation.
