Zizou
Can this even be described
We have just witnessed something extraordinary, something so sublime and amazing that may never be repeated. A man who takes complete and total control of a game, where he openly hold the ball, tells a team mate to make a run, the defender sees it, and yet he still gets turned, and the pass gets through to the target. There was not one errant pass sent by him tonite. At this level, in this game, unheard of. A man who danced around his markers, as if it was a training seesion, playing with a smile on his face not seen since May 2002, when he had perhaps his most brilliant individual moment.
At 34, Zidane has done the unimaginable, lifted himself from several lackluster seasons in Madrid, and resumed as if nothing had changed from that night in Glasgow in 2002, where he scored a goal that seemed to come from the heavens
But tonight, he was mesmerizing, and really there is no way to capture the full brilliance of him controlling every aspect of every french possesion but to watch the game. But i have found a few clips courtesy of you tube, that show the calm and ease with which Zidane gave a footballing lesson to the Samba boys, at 34 when most had written him off as past his prime.
A legend ladies and gentleman. A man who has marked an era.
1952-1966 Pele
1970-1980 Cruyff
1983-1990 Maradona
1996-2006 Zidane
We have just witnessed something extraordinary, something so sublime and amazing that may never be repeated. A man who takes complete and total control of a game, where he openly hold the ball, tells a team mate to make a run, the defender sees it, and yet he still gets turned, and the pass gets through to the target. There was not one errant pass sent by him tonite. At this level, in this game, unheard of. A man who danced around his markers, as if it was a training seesion, playing with a smile on his face not seen since May 2002, when he had perhaps his most brilliant individual moment.
At 34, Zidane has done the unimaginable, lifted himself from several lackluster seasons in Madrid, and resumed as if nothing had changed from that night in Glasgow in 2002, where he scored a goal that seemed to come from the heavens
But tonight, he was mesmerizing, and really there is no way to capture the full brilliance of him controlling every aspect of every french possesion but to watch the game. But i have found a few clips courtesy of you tube, that show the calm and ease with which Zidane gave a footballing lesson to the Samba boys, at 34 when most had written him off as past his prime.
A legend ladies and gentleman. A man who has marked an era.
1952-1966 Pele
1970-1980 Cruyff
1983-1990 Maradona
1996-2006 Zidane
posted by Lav at Sunday, July 02, 2006
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