The kids of today will never fully understand how good he was. Zidane was GENIUS! Best midfielder I’ve ever seen.

After Messi won the World Cup, I started to then realize how great Zidane is! Like scoring in 2 World Cup finals and only time Brazil lost in WC between 1994 to 2006 was just twice- both agains Zidane’s france! Guy was taking down legacy and system single handedly!

I entirely agree with David Beckham. Though I like and appreciate the terrible monster who was Ronaldo the brazilian, for me Zidane is the greatest player of all times.

Zidane got me interested in football. He played vs all the best players in his era and he made them all look like average players. Also every player respected him and those who didn't got headbutted, just ask Materazzi. Some people say Pele, Maradona or Messi but for me Zidane is the GOAT👍👍👍

Football became poetry when Zizou stepped on the pitch. To me he is the greatest ever.

Ronaldo R9 was a bulldozer. Cr7 is a german precision machine. Messi is the great firework in the sky. But ZIZOU was flowing wine, a beautiful orchestra playing, a gentle river flowing, magic manifesting on the field. ZIDANEISM

To respond to this...Casemiro once said ,when Real Madrid had training matches and were short in one man,Zidane used to play and he still was the best on the pitch!

He's the best midfielder ever, so good most people assume he's a striker with how much he's talked about

Zidane is a player who cannot be quantified like Cristiano, for example mean stats are also a certain indication of how good a player is, but Zidane is more than that. Not the machine, not measurable by rationality, but by the magic that surrounded him when he was on the ball. Zizou had this aura Something subtle that touches the soul of football. A Ronaldo doesn't do that, l just think he's awesome J no question, but Zidane touched my heart when he played. It's hard to put into words and that's what sets him apart. ❤️♾️

One of the most majestic and elegant players to ever play the game for sure!

Zizou was absolute. When he had the ball, he had the ball. When he was on the field, all his team was becoming magic, while the other one was becoming clumsy. Against absolutely any of the greatest stars with no exceptions. And not a single one of them ever tried to hide it.

The question is not how many goals he scored but when he scored them: semi finals, finals… He scored when it mattered. He scored 2 goals in Word cup final 1998, and one in World cup final 2006, as an example. And he was not a natural striker, he prefered to help strikers do the job. A truly altruistic attacking midfielder who could influence the game and other players!

I think Zidane englobes everything that makes a sportsman great. Talent, results and elegance. He is like Roger Federer in that sense. He might not be the top scorer or whatever, but he flows about the pitch in a way that's just beautiful to watch and it isn't just show, he also got some spectacular results along the way. Truly one of the Top 5 GOATs in my humble opinion.

Zidane is a lot like Ronaldinho to me in the sense that it wasn’t about stats, goals, assists, etc. when watching them play. You were watching masters of the art form of football who made all the others around them look like children who were just chasing the ball trying to keep up. Don’t get me wrong I love cr7 and Messi but the level of football between 2000-2006 is the most magical football I’ve still seen to this day

Zidane was the greatest football player of all time. I stopped watching football after he retired because he was that good. Everyone was watching every touch of the ball because he was an artist, and they wanted to emulate his turns, his flicks, and his vision. He beat the best teams during the golden era of football.

His control of the ball and his passing are unmatched. An absolute visionary.

Zidane was an artist. As per my assessment he is at least one step ahead of Christiano and Messi. A true visionary with unmatched potential of controlling the game.

Zidane is my favorite player of all times. He's right up there with the likes of Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona... He's pretty successful as a coach as well (3 Champions League in 2.5 seasons!!!)

"the fact that Zlatan was praising someone other than himself just shows how special zizu was" ..

When you asked legendary football players and managers in this world, They will praise Zidane. This show how awesome that he was.

I'm not a fan of French football but Zidane could be from Jupiter for all I care. I truly believe he is the greatest footballer to ever walk this earth. Let me quote Sir Alex: " Give me Zidane and 10 pieces of wood and I'll win you the Champions League."

Excluding penalty shootouts, Zidane only lost 2 competitive match with France in 1994-2006. One vs Denmark in WC 2002, two was vs Greece in Euro 2004. In the match vs Denmark, he was playing injured and named MOTM Insane

The thing when you was watching Zidane play is that even if we're drawing/loosing. He would make it worth the money, it was just beautiful to watch him play.

we don't judge midfielders with how much goal he scores but how much assist he does and how well he create chances. Zidane was a midfielder and his assist record is superb besides he was a talisman and a playmaker. The video creator rightly said, Zidane was on different level. The best Midfielder ever. Cannot be compared with Ronaldo, Messi, Maradona, Pele. All those were shooters.

One of the things I admire most about Zidane is how comfortable he was with the ball whilst showing his skills. He dribbles like an excited kid with a ball but with skills which was done effortlessly.

“The bigger the match the better Zidane is” you said it right and that’s what makes him the greatest midfielder

Zidane had this unexplainable grace on the ball. Every touch, every pass and every dribble had intent and was mesmerising. It's as if he was dictating how his team should attack. Absolute baller. Very few players stand out in big , career defining moments and Zidane was one of them.

I support the fact that he stood up for himself by fighting with anyone who did him wrong

I started watching football because of him.... I couldn't watch laliga matches at that time but watched every real madrid match in champion league because of him, also world cup. And, I never saw a match, where he wasn't the best player on the pitch. NEVER ! He was best even if Real was losing. His control of the game is unreal. Never seen anyone after him to be at least somewhat close... Definitely the best ever...

Clearly a GOAT candidate

Zizou was a big game player You could feel his presence in the big game

One of the few true artists of the sport. Yes, Maradona was more explosive, Messi more productive in goals, Ronaldo flashier. But Zidane genuinely astonishes like a magician who is showing you exactly what he’s doing and yet you can’t figure it out.

Greatest playmaker of the ball, as if he could see through the players. Champion

He might not have the stats of the “wonder boy” Messi or “relentless” Ronaldo, but his character and elegance is simply unmatched. He commanded the pitch with both finesse and boldness when he got the ball, and not just when he was retiring at 34 (and what a retirement btw) but in his early twenties. If it wasn’t for his charisma he would never be so successful as a manager. I don’t think Messi and Ronaldo will ever grow up to be great mangers (time will tell though) and that’s perhaps because compared to Zizou they’re just talented kids.

Zidane was and is a team player not selfish like Messi or Ronaldo. Both they dissappoint their teams and nations in needed times and they were part of the victory, but Zidane as Zlatan said makes the team get way better.

One word? God. I've never seen anyone like him.

He was a magician, there was no one like him, even now!

For me Zidane like Steve Vai in Guitar scene/world . Amazing to watch and so many thing you can learn when he was in pitch

🔥Miss the good old days ✌️Respect to Zidane & the rest OGs

Why do you want sign zidane when we have tim sherwood. Tim Sherwood couldn't even laced the boots of zidane. 🤣🤣

Best midfielder of all time ⏲

Any time you see a player who does not have to run to beat people, and can dribble 3 or 4 players with pure changes in momentum, at the highest level of Football? you are watching genius at work, Zidane is an example of that

As Ferguson once said... "Give me Zidane and 10 pieces of wood and I'll win you the champions league."

Zizou is the GOAT 🐐!!!

Probably the greatest ever.

There has never been a player like zidane, zidane had it all. best to ever play the game imo

Zidane has one of the Highest X Factor of In Game Influence in Football History, Right Up there with Pele, Cruijff, Beckenbauer, Maradona, Baggio, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi. One of The Greatest Playmaker in History.

With zidane football is beautiful

When Zidane was playing, I always felt confident for France.

Stats is not everything. Creating an influence in the pitch matters. Zidane was an ultimate playmaker our world could ever witness. You cannot say a player is good by his stats.

In recent years, football players have been overly glorified in the media and with social media being everywhere, Messi and CR7 have achieved god-like status. There is so much bias toward these two players and there is also recency bias. So much so that people have begun "revisionist football history" forgetting some of the all time greats. Zidane wasn't a striker, you can't compare him to Messi or CR7. He also didn't have as many quality players supporting him in his league and national teams. Plus he lived in a time when there were so many legends and great players- I can name 15 of them. These days, the competition outside of Messi and CR7 is thin. Plus, he had much shorter career than players today.

I fell in love with football and Real Madrid because of Zidane.

He‘s name was Zidaneeeee ….. Zinedine Zidane .

Zidane prime (1997-2002) had 10 Messi in his left foot.

...he dominates the ball he is a walking spectacle and he plays as if he had silk gloves on each foot . This comment by the legend Alfredo De Stefano says a lot. ...when Zidane stepped onto the pitch the ten other guys just suddenly got better. This comment by Zlatan Ibrahimovic also speaks volumes. I wrote a comment the other day that Zidane came into the game late and did not have a professional mentor. My comment fits in superbly because the commentator said Zidane had a 'raw talent'. Now like an engine, the power is there but with further enhancements and 'fine' tuning' you get more. Like in physics if you use the brain, you can get more work done.

Some sportsman play with such an art that it is majestic..like Federer did in tennis Zidane did it in football..my favourite footballer of all time the only player I ever put above him was Maradona ....Zidane had the greatest first touch I have ever seen

He was a God with football, that's how good he was

Totally agree mann..Zidane is the reason I started watching football 👏

For me , he is the greatest of all time , no disrespect to meradona, Zidane was the architecture of the football.

Zinedine Zidane is my idol after Lionel Messi and besides Marco Van Basten, the reason is because I like his skill and playing style which is very calm and elegant. Respect to Zinedine Zidane, legend of Real Madrid and Juventus.👍🥳🎉

Zidane is one of the top 3 footballers I have ever had the pleasure of seeing play, and I have watched football since 1982. The other two are Maradona and Messi. Let us see what Mbappe does in the coming years, but he is also impressive.

Underated channel 💯

THE ELEGANT. ZIDANE.

Zidane is Federer of football . Pure class ⚽️⚽️⚽️

He's up there with Ronaldo and Messi, he just a different kind of player. It's not all about scoring goals.

Zidane is the Best 🎉

best player of all times

You also need to watch the type of goals he scored, he was not putting the goal in the net, it was always a banger.

Legend😎

i came to love football bcoz of the magic from zizou's foot, since then i am French Football Fan

Zidane played for the forwards and when the forwards didn't score, he did. He is the best ever.

Zizou is probably the best ever at the 2 most fundamental skills of football - passing and ball control.

I TOTALLY disagree about the Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo & Messi comment at the end. When needed he was THERE. Never a player had a more dominant performance than against Brazil at 2006. The GOAT debate (which is wrong in general) should be between Pele, Maradona & Zidane.

One of the best the real Goat

In Terms of positional player comparison he his definitely in the top 10 of the best players to have played in the attacking midfielder position.

His literally up their with the goats.. man won everything and dominated those big games..

Finally you made a video you like your other channel

Awesome video, I'd like to request a video about pep guardiola back when he played in the pitch

What if i said that i never seen full football match before 2006 Fifa world cup .I was 15 year old teenager and Brazil vs France was the first football match i saw on live television and this man made me fall in love with this game.

The Real GOAT! One True Legend of the Game! Simply unmatched and incomparable!

One of the best, underrated even

Great vid, now I would kindly like to request a video about Manchester United legend Denis Law since I realized on KZfaq they were videos on Best and Charlton but very few on law which is a travesty since to this day only Wayne Rooney and Bobby Charlton have more goals for Man Utd

Zizou is the greatest. Pele, Maradona and Messi all played the same type of football. But if you look at Zidane his style of football is just unique and he controls the whole team.

Zidane was the artistic commander on the ground.

I do agree, for me I can count, in my generation, Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Jay Jay, Figo, behkam, reivadlo, and alike

Kylian Mbappé & Antoine Griezmannis are Zidane successors

Legend

one of the best

Zidane to football is what Wordsworth is to poetry. Period.

Goals assists stats dont cover the whole ability of being able to play in a football match. Its so much more than that . Zidane is the best I've ever seen because of his ability using both feet no other player had this he shifted it from one to the other like a man in the street with 3 cups and a ball. Federer hasn't won the most trophies in tennis but there isn't another tennis player youd rather watch and thats what Zidane is to football absolute master of his craft.

I was one if the luckiest to have watched zidane play in 2006 world cup😢

absolutely TOP 20 during 1995 - 2006，if offering more assists in major national tourments , surely being Top 10 in that period . so great ZIDANE

Genius commander in the field

Best midfielder ever

He was one of the best

Zinadine zidane is the best 🇲🇫🇲🇫🇲🇫

In india brazil and argentina suppoters are predominant...but when it was brazil vs france match.they said brazil can't win this time. I asked why?? They said cause france has zidane. That's absurd.but that proves what kind of player he was.

Disagree. I think he's the best french player ever and is top 5 ever also. In that Maradona, Messi, Pele and Ronaldo mix. He didn't score as much etc, but that wasn't his job. He was the best at what he did, ever. He'd be in any same person's all time 11. Breath taking, elegant, technical, skillful, dominated games on his own against the best players and teams at the highest level time and again. Week in week out quality. Big game player. Consistency, longevity, greatness. Vision, awareness, read the game, fast reactions and even faster thinker. Mentally strong. Had a nasty streak a mile wide. But that with his size and talent demanded respect from even the most hard nosed players and out right scared most. He did it all, won it all. Should have won 2 wolrd cups, he kind of shafted himself there. Player of the tournament in 2006 world cup at 36 years old. Player of the tournament in the euros. Won both of those competitions. Won the UCL. Dominated Italian football when it was the best and most competitive league in the world. Won titles in 3 countries and got to Europe finals with all of them, not to mention being the key player in all that success for club and country. Comparing him to Messi and Maradona is silly. He's the guy playing behind them in the centre. Carrying the team, creating the chances, setting up the goals and chipping in with the odd goal himself. People rave on about Xavi, Iniesta, and Modric, well Zidane is more comparable to those kind of players and for my money, he gets the nod above all of them. In an all time 11, it'd be Zidane and one or two of those other players (few others obviously) that play alongside Zidane in midfield. But he's first on the team sheet regarding midfielders.

Very elegant player and his performances in big games were unbeaten, but way too inconsistent to be even near the GOAT category. Still one of my favourite players ever.

Yes, Zizou might be slightly under Messi, the two Ronaldos, Pele, and Maradona! However, he's got something that none of them have which is what Zlatan said, he actually controlled games by himself thus elevating his teammates! And he's definitely the ultimate big game player!