During an interview with Tony Parker, Zinedine Zidane looked back on the biggest disappointment of his playing career.
Zidane may have hung up his boots 17 years ago, but he remembers the worst disappointment of his career as if it were yesterday. During an interview with Tony Parker for the Skweek Show, the former Blues number 10 was asked to reveal his biggest disappointment when he was a player. And it’s not the World Cup final lost in 2006 against Italy or even his headbutt on Marco Materazzi…
“They sold me straight away”
“The biggest disappointment I had was when I was younger, when I went down (to the second division, editor’s note) with AS Cannes,” said Zizou, who made his professional debut in Cannes, where he played 71 games for 6 goals scored between 1988 and 1992, before joining the Girondins de Bordeaux. “I didn’t play,” he said. Since I was a prospect, they sold me right away. I went to Bordeaux (in 1992). I was young. My biggest disappointment was going down with a club. »
Concerning his best footballing memory, no surprise, the French legend named the 1998 World Cup. “The story that marked our sport was winning the World Cup, he indicated. And at your place. When it’s the first time, it’s always an incredible thing. Experiencing it, with the people, was extraordinary. »
