Legend of the French and football team, Zinédine Zidane only has a Champions League to his player record. He gave Real Madrid the victory of a resumption of the left against Leverkusen in 2002. It is not very glorious compared to the world superstars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, even if “Zizou” lost in the LDC final twice with Juventus, in 1997 against Dortmund (3-1) and in 1998 against Real (0-1), after having already lost in the final UEFA 1996 with the Girondins de Bordeaux in front of Bayern (2-0, 3-1).
By evolving at the very high level for so many years, as a playmaker of the Bianconeri then galactic star of Casa Blanca, Zidane played no less than 120 European Cup matches in her career, for a 23 goals and 41 assists. He is the sixth French player to have played as many meetings on the continental scene. The one who was Golden Ball 98 as well as FIFA player of the year in 1998, 2000 and 2003 even started in the UEFA Cup during his second season with AS Cannes (which had finished 4th in D1 in 1991).
Zidane in front of Ribéry and Griezmann
In the top 10 French players in the European Cup, Antoine Griezmann honored his 115th European outing and reached 9th place equally with Steve Mandanda, Tuesday during the round of the round of C1 against the Merengues (2-1). He will therefore go beyond “Il Fenmeno” of OM next week during the round return to Metropolitano and will get closer to a match by Robert Pirès and Franck Ribéry. “Grizi”, world champion like “Zizou”, will only be four games from the Native of Marseille. No one does not know if he will continue to play in the European Cup in the coming months and next season …
Not content with being the top French scorer in the history of LDC (90 goals), Karim Benzema is the French player who played the most European Cup matches (157 matches with Olympique Lyonnais then Real Madrid). He is followed by Thierry Henry (140 games), Claude Makelele (132 matches), Mathieu Valbuena (132 games) and Patrice Evra (124 matches). Kylian Mbappé is 88 European matches at the age of 26.
