Zidane was unique. He had a fluidity and intelligence to his play that has never been replicated. The ball seemed to work for Zidane rather the Zidane working for the ball. Poetry on a pitch.

It's amazing how Zidane dominated the game, the dude was the absolute boss especially in big games. Magician, genius!

Absolute genious. And you can see in his style a mashup of all the players he admired when he was young : Socrates, Waddle, Francescoli. It's not about the amount of goals or statistics, which is a priority for young players today, but it's about the influence you have on the game and the beauty of the game. Zidane is up there with Cruyff and Maradona.

People say De Bruyne is a complete midfielder and he is close but Zidane was the ultimate midfielder, the best I've seen in 30 years. He was a master at every aspect of the game.

Zidane is special, the calmness and focus is 100% .. he is so majestic, he is like a unicorn, you can see all those player are not a newbie but training whole life for this but none of them know what zidane going to do, you will think zidane will do this, but he was not, he still stood there watching you falling by yourself..

...But the strongest of them all... Zinedine Zidane, Zinedine Zidane Superstar, superstar

He was the definition of a number 10 for me.. he didnt need a good team, he made every team better

Zidane vs. Brazil in 2006 is still the greatest single performance by a football player. He was in God mode in that match

Majestic. The vision, strength, poise, touch & skill of this man left a massive impression on me. Look at the perfect weight he puts on the ball for himself & his teammates. The ball slows down, but not long enough for opponents to realise what just happened, & they’re caught! What a privilege to have seen him go about it.

I don't really understand Zidane's movement. I just can't break it down. I've never seen anyone move like him. I was very young when he was still around so I didn't get to watch him play but every time I see clips of him it puzzles me, I can't figure out what it is that makes him look so unique and I can't figure out why it's so effective. There are a few guys that even if you just saw their silhouette you'd be able to tell who they were just based on how they move, like Ronaldo and Messi for instance, Ronaldo is extremely explosive with every little movement he makes, very fast twitch muscle fibers, Messi with the ball glued to his feet and some insane agility being able to defy gravity, and then there's Zidane, you glance at him as he starts moving and you might think at first that he's some random slow guy that plays football with his mates for fun, everything moves in slow motion, but then somehow every little touch of the ball is unbelievably precise and effective and it just all flows so smoothly. I feel like you could get people to mimic the way Ronaldo/Messi move to a certain extent (obviously no one would be anywhere near as good at it) and have it look convincing, you could mimic Ronaldo's fast feet with his stepovers, you could mimic Messi's shoulder drop and his crazy feints, etc., because their style of movement is easy to break down, you can see it for what it is but I doubt anyone could mimic Zidane's movement, everything he does looks like it's something that shouldn't be happening. His style is legitimately one of a kind.

His calmness with the ball were phenomenal.

Give me Zidane and 10 other woods. ~Sir Alex Ferguson

playing football never looked so easy when you watch Zidane. And yet what he does is top top class. He is a gift for us, for the people who love football. French commentators are calm and never yell except when zidane is playing xD

6:25 The most iconic french football commentator duo, Thierry Roland (RIP) and Jean-Michel Larqué, it brings so much memories from my teenage years... Platini was amazing but oh boy Zidane was a master at this game.

He made me know how beautiful football game is

Zidane was the Man against boys, whether you played alongside or against you.

Zidane n'est comparable à aucun joueur 🇫🇷♥️

The incomparable legend Zinedine Yasid Zidane.

With his intelligence, touch and intuition he could have played much longer. I was surprised when he ended his career at 33. He could easily have played 5 more years at top level. He was amazing.

Zizou and Riquelme, last of the true pure center midfielders, tempo control. when they played against each other, Villareal vs Real Madrid, was incredible. They even swapped jerseys.

Marseille 1992 about Zidane " no he's way too slow we don't want him "

Fuoriclasse, Genio, Maestro. He was the game.

I dont know better player than Zizou Learnt how to dominate and control in football

Zizou , once in a generation player. The master of the game 🙏

Zidane is the second most artistic player after the legendary Diego Maradona.

For Zidane and Ronaldinho Football is just a game. Us mere human would never understand how outrageous that was.

My favourite player ever. A pitty these great talents grow old and leave football.

"Give me Zidane and 10 pieces of wood, and I'll win you the Champions League" - Sir Alex Ferguson

Zidane dribbled past defenders like they didn't exist. The man was disrespectful haha

this is therapeutic. thanks for the compilation, and thanks to zizou for the moments.

As an 11 year old football obsessed English kid I remember being in absolute awe at his Euro 2000 performance he was almost faultless in every game

His playstyle is so smooth thats crazy

Best player all time ❤🇫🇷

Zidane , Ronaldo nazario , Ronaldinho, figo, Rivaldo, Roberto Calos, Thierry Henry, Pirlo, David Beckham, Deco, Raul, Nesta, Maldini ,Puyol, Rud vanesteroy and more in the same generation what happened to football cause there is no more this amount of quality these day

Need more videos on Zidane. So that younger fans understand that if not better than he was on Par with Messi And Ronaldo. For me, he was better than both.

That back heel caress off Henry’s corner which leads to a goal brings tears to my eyes

Looks like he is playing on easy mode because everything is easy for him 😂

He is hypnotizing to his opponents!

Zidane was a magician because nobody had a first touch like him. Only player who has come close to having a first touch like Zidane was Berbatov. But you can't compare him to anyone really. He was uniquely amazing. The king of first touch, flicks and pirouettes.

L’intelligence technique !! Vision laser !! Précision propre football

the way he uses the space around him is absolutely magical.

Legend of Football 👍

ഗോൾ അടിക്കുന്നതിനേക്കാൾ ഗോൾ അടിപ്പിക്കാനും,, ഗോളിന് വഴിയൊരു ക്കുന്നതും കാണാൻ എന്ത് രസമാണ്.... zizuo🔥

He was impressive on casual games and legendary on important events. So elegant !

Congratulations 🥳👏 Zizou become a granddad

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo. 8 minutes de pure jouissance !

I cannot understand why Zizou is not mentioned among the GOATs. A much more complete player than CR. His dribbling is easily comparable to that of Messi and Maradona, though he was better at aerial ball control. Perhaps not the mot prolific goal scorer, but like Johan Cruyff said, "never compare a great player with a great goal scorer." Two very different things. Obviously, you need both, but where would the goal scorers be without the touch, the vision, the passing, and the dribbling of the playmakers? Only the chosen few could do it like Zizou. IMO, a very underrated player.

Every player: we have a tough match today. Zizou: You guys mean it’s time for FIFA PlayStation?

Still waiting for a player of this calibre today and so far only disappointment........

Messi and cr7 fan boys will never understand the genius this guy was when I see them jamming every football post you would think football was never played before those two people played.

Zidane is unlike the current players who heavily rely on speed. He's slow by today's standards but still need to speed down to watch his movements. Thats how great he is

The crazy thing about zidane is hes the undoubted alpha dog no matter who played with him. Ronaldo, Henry, Figo, Pires, Del Piero all these great players defer to Zidane.

"Give me ten planks of wood and Zidane and I will win the Champions League" Alex Ferguson 😂

Zidane serves a lot for football. For very few, we can use a word "Great" both as a player as well as a coach.

The joke called "Football" Was entirely for Zidane, back then. They made the joke FOR him!

Zidane against Brazil... 2 amazing matches i will never forget

He always have options, and picks the option you'd least expect.

2006 Zidane was insane.

Football will never be a joke to Zidane. He's too tasteful and graceful for making a joke of it. He respects the game and played with elegance. And as said in the beginning of the video "all geniuses are flaud...". As true as it is, also includes the word genius, headbutts included.

He was better. It was magical to see him.

I first got intrigued by the name of Zidane when some team mate at Girondins Bordeaux told the press "Zidane has hands where other people have feet". He combined a silk touch, perfect body coordination and physical strength almost to perfection. And every move he did on the field, even the craziest back-heel passes and piriouettes, served some functional purpose. Nothing he did was for pure show for the TV cameras as it is the case with so many other technically gifted players.

Toujours zizo l homme ⚽️

He was filthy. Best of his generation and certainly top 3-4 of all time best

never stop watching this legend

Il avait la meilleure touche,brillant et très talentueux,le meilleur de son époque!

poetry in motion like Johan Cruijff

Zidane ball control is incredible. Even he wasn't with the ball he uses his team mate to get through defenders. A skill that not even messi or R9 can do. But the most important part of football is to win. They don't care you push , you dive as long as 90 minutes you are leading you are the champion.

...you could make a metaphor with a pin ball machine. Zidane gets rid of the ball but it keeps finding its way back to him. His team players seem to me that they want to pass the ball back to him. Perhaps this is why someone commented in a documentary that the french team look up to Zidane to lead them. Interesting.

The great thing about European Football is that he can accurately compare today's players versus yesterday's players, without any "but but but the game is different today..." excuses. LOL

Zidane Figo Figo Zidane Roberto Carlos man this guys were lucky to have the honor to play with each other

He just maybe the best player thats ever lived. ❤ zidane

He could have played as a regista and prolonged his carrier. Unfortunately nowadays we are faced with KZfaq clips of young players put together by their agents making 2 sideway passes or stopping a ball then hearing they are worth 100 million on the transfer market

A man who has the balls to rock the mad monk hair do is a formidable character

What a complete player

Bro i can feel my R3 does job very well while watch this whole video.. So satisfying hahaha

My favorite player of all tym

Je pense que ce genre de vidéo devrait être regardée décortiquée et appliqué dans les écoles de foot!! Je ne comprends pas que l'on ne vois pas ça plus souvent ce genre de jeu collectif en un touche de balle venue d'ailleurs. C'est juste magique. Content d'avoir pu vivre ça ! Lol

Zizou mon frère ❤️ le best of the best 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾 émotion le number One ☝️

The ease with which he played!

I meditate to this. Really soothing.

De Bruyne is the closest we have to Zidane now. He gets more goals, but hasn't quite got that presence that Zidane had in the biggest matches. He still has time though.

Zidane will always be in my all time 11. From a Crystal Palace fan!

One thing I notice with zidane is the his football work and ball control made it look like his foot was a giant blue tack He’s a great player abs he played sone nice football

Zidane a rendu tout le peuple algérien fière de lui il fais partie des meilleurs joueurs de tous les temps,ont aiment beaucoup Merci Zidane et vive l'Algérie

He is my favorite player of my generation. Can somebody name a similar player of this new generation?

08:01 thank you for watching? What do you mean? We thank you my friend… we thank you

I was lucky to see him face to face

Definitely one of the best, I also think Andres is up there

Zidane brought grace to the game and the idea that there were different ways to dominate it. In his case, above all, the certainty for his team members that there was always someone who knew the answer. Be that as it may, in the first minutes of this video at least, the frivolous maneuvers are surprisingly often followed by sloppy, uninspired, and imprecisely timed passes, so the benefit of the trick goes to waste. It probably still had an effect because it unsettles the opponent in the medium term. But there is also beauty in the precision of simple things that he too seldom recognizes here. Is it still beautiful? Certainly! Does it celebrate the beauty of the game as much as his personal artistry? To be completely honest, a little less often than one would like.

Nobody plays like him - legend

الناس تتحدث عن ميسي ورونالدو وانا لازلت ارى فيديو زيدان

Very brilliant player zidan... ⚽️

It looks very easy and no flashy moves but it all comes down to manipulating your opponent. Notice how many of them trip, it's because he quickly swaps direction when they change weight on their feet. You also saw this behavior with Ronaldinho but he also liked to do flashy stuff obviously.

Thank you very much for the editing with original commentary. I can't stand compilations where they use dance or upbeat music...yak!

I heard this video is completely blurred out when you play it in Japan.

I've goosebump when I see this

Imagine a Player having Bale 2012-2015 speed and Zidane footwork

MAGNIFIQUE !

Footballers play football - Zidane owns it! When Alex Ferguson plays he needs chewing gum - against Zidane he probably chew 10 at once... :)

Every movement is natural