Luis Fernandez does not fail to recall it in his interview with Legends podcast: He played with Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane, the two biggest legends of French football. “Luis” is first of all the tireless midfielder of the French team of “Platoche”, winner of Euro 1984 at the Parc des Princes and semi-finalist of the 1982 World Cups (the famous nightmare of Seville) and 1986 (where he scored the victorious goal against Brazil in the quarterfinals).
In the club, the native of Tarifa in Andalusia is a legend of PSG before even becoming the coach who offered the Cup Cup in 1996. He indeed became the darling of the Parc des Princes then captain of PSG during his very first title of champion of France! After a mixed experience at Matra Racing, which hoped to become the second Paris club, he joined Jean Fernandez's AS Cannes to end his career. A discreet native of Marseille is promoted to the reserve team at 18, in the summer of 1990. A certain Zinedine Zidane.
“He starts with us, Zizou, with AS Cannes, who at that time had a good training center. But Zizou begins with me on the ground, and with Jean Fernandez who is the coach. Zizou, it was he who picked up my balloons, since he was behind me, that I played a little higher in the game (laughs). If you see him when he gets into the team, when Jean Fernandez positions him … he is attentive, you do not hear it. He was very respectful, he listened to the advice. He was starting to show himself, to take a seat, to play, with ease, and that you see him right away ”launches Luis Fernandez at Legends podcastas reported Girondins4ever.
Luis Fernandez praises the Zidane family
Before continuing on Zidane's family: “He also had really exceptional parents. When you met them after a match, they were posed, calm, quiet, respectful … You felt education. Zizou had his style to him, and we liked it all, we appreciated, and that is obviously why after, when he goes to Bordeaux, we look at his journey … We are admiring, we see him grow, progress, put two goals later in the final of the World Cup … “
A player with the technique greater than the average, Yazid (as he was called home at the Castellane, in the northern districts of Marseille) therefore began defensive midfielder in hexagonal D1. He scored his first in February 1991, against FC Nantes, taking Revers Marcel Desailly. The Cannois then won 4th place, qualifying for the UEFA Cup. They were eliminated from the start of the European Cup and, despite the five goals from Zidane, were relegated to the end of the fiscal year. The future Ballon d'Or 98 then chose the Girondins de Bordeaux, where it really exploded.
