Zinedine Zidane

**Zinedine Zidane** (born 23 June 1972, nicknamed **Zizou**, **Yaz** and **ZZ**) is a French former football player. He played for four European clubs and the French national team. He played for Real Madrid from 1997 to 2002. His name is a predecessor to Zedan. 

## Early life
Zidane was born in Marseille, France and is of Kabyle Berber descent.

## Career
Zidane played for several famous football clubs, like Juventus of Italy and Real Madrid of Spain. He led France to win the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the 2000 European Football Championship. In 2002 he also won the UEFA Champions League for Real Madrid, which was the ninth championship for Real Madrid. Zidane was picked as the FIFA World Player of the Year three times. He led France to the 2006 World Cup final and was arguably the best player in the tournament. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players of his generation and of all time.

### Retirement 
In 2006, Zidane announced that he would retire after the World Cup. Zidane was famous for headbutting Marco Materazzi in the chest during the 2006 FIFA World Cup final at the 110th minute of extra time and was sent off with a red card. France eventually lost 5-3 in penalties to Italy and got second place. This incident was widely known as the Zidane headbutt. There is even a sculpture of it in Doha, Qatar.

## Career statistics
### Club
### International
:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first.''

## Managerial statistics
## Honours
### Player
**Bordeaux**
*UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1995
*UEFA Cup runner-up: 1995–96

**Juventus**

**France**
* Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 1996–97, 2000–01
* Onze d'Argent: 1997, 2002, 2003
* FIFA XI: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002
* ESM Team of the Year: 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04
* UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year: 1998
* L'Équipe France Champion of Champions: 1998
* UEFA European Championship Player of the Tournament: 2000
* Serie A Footballer of the Year: 2000–01
* UEFA Team of the Year: 2001, 2002, 2003
* Don Balón Award: 2001–02
* La Liga Best Foreign Player: 2001–02
* UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2002
* FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2002
* FIFA 100: 2004
* UEFA Best European Player of the Past 50 Years: 2004
* FIFA FIFPro World XI: 2005, 2006
* IFFHS World's Best Playmaker: 2006
* FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: 2006
* Marca Leyenda Award: 2008
* Golden Foot Legends Award: 2008
* ESPN Team of the Decade: 2009
* ESPN Player of the Decade: 2009
* Fox Sports Player of the Decade: 2009
* Sports Illustrated Team of the Decade: 2009
* Sports Illustrated Player of the Decade: 2009
* Don Balón Player of the Decade: 2010
* UEFA Champions League Best Player of the Past 20 Years: 2011
* Équipe type spéciale 20 ans des trophées UNFP: 2011
* Real Madrid Greatest XI of All Time: 2012
* World Soccer Greatest XI of All Time: 2013
* Real Madrid Hall of Fame: 2014
* UEFA Ultimate Team of the Year (substitute): 2015
* IFFHS Legends: 2016
* UEFA European Championship All-Time XI: 2016
* FourFourTwo's Selection of the 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time #8: 2017
* Juventus Greatest XI of All Time: 2017
* ''L'Équipe'' Best French Player of All Time: 2018
* Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Silver): 2020
* IFFHS All-time Men's B Dream Team: 2021
* IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team: 2021
* FourFourTwo's 100 best football players of all time #5: 2022
*Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2022

### Manager
**Real Madrid**
*La Liga: 2016–17, 2019–20
*Supercopa de España: 2017, 2019–20
*UEFA Champions League: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
*UEFA Super Cup: 2016, 2017
*FIFA Club World Cup: 2016, 2017

**Individual**
* La Liga Manager of the Month: April 2016, May 2017
* UEFA La Liga Team Revelation of the Year: 2015–16
* UEFA Champions League Breakthrough XI: 2015–16
* IFFHS World's Best Club Coach – Runner-up: 2016
* The Best FIFA Football Coach: 2017; Runner-up: 2016, 2018
* France Football French Manager of the Year: 2016, 2017
* Le Buteur Coach of the Year: 2016
* UEFA La Liga Team of the Season: 2016–17, 2019–20
* France Football UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2016–17
* Onze d'Or Coach of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21
* ESPN Manager of the Year: 2017
* IFFHS World's Best Club Coach: 2017, 2018
* IFFHS Men's World Team: 2017
* RMC French Manager of the Year: 2017
* Globe Soccer Awards Best Coach of the Year: 2017
* World Soccer Magazine World Manager of the Year: 2017; Runner-up: 2018
**France Football* 22nd Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019
**Sports Illustrated* 34th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2019
*Miguel Muñoz Trophy: 2019–20
*L'Equipe's Best Club Coach: 2020
*FourFourTwo's 36th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2020
* Globe Soccer Awards Coach of the Century 2001–2020 (Runners-up)
* IFFHS's 38th All Time World's Best Coach: 2021

### Orders
*Knight of the Legion of Honour: 1998
*National Order of Merit: 2006
*Officer of the Legion of Honour: 2008

### Records
#### As a player
* The most expensive footballer in history: 2001–2009
* Most FIFA World Cup Final matches scored in: 2 matches (shared with Pelé, Vavá, Paul Breitner and Kylian Mbappé)
* Most red cards received in FIFA World Cup matches: 2 (shared with Rigobert Song)
* One of the two players in history to be named player of the year in 3 of the Top 5 Leagues: Division 1 Player of the Year (1996), Serie A Footballer of the Year (2001), Don Balón Award (2002)
* Only player in history to win the World Cup and the European Championship while being named best player of both competitions
* Most Onze d'Or awards: 7 in total (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
* Most FIFA World Player of the Year awards: 6 in total

#### As a manager
* Best winning streak in the history of La Liga: 16 games (shared with Pep Guardiola)
* Most consecutive away wins in the history of La Liga: 13 games
* Manager with the lowest number of defeats after 100 games (in Spanish football): 8 losses
* Manager with most trophies after 100 games (in Spanish football): 7 titles
* Longest unbeaten run in Real Madrid history: 40 games
* Longest unbeaten run in Spanish football: 40 games
* Longest scoring run (all major competitions) in European football: 73 games
* Only manager in history to win two consecutive UEFA Champions League trophies in its modern format: 2015–16, 2016–17
*Only manager to win three consecutive European Cup/UEFA Champions League finals: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
* Only manager in Real Madrid history to win four trophies in one season
* Only manager in Real Madrid history to win the UEFA Super Cup twice
* First manager to win two consecutive UEFA Super Cup titles since Arrigo Sacchi
* Quickest manager in the history of the Top 5 Leagues to win 8 titles with a single club: 23 months
* Quickest manager in history to be named FIFA Football Coach of the Year: 653 days
* Only person in history to win the Onze d'Or award as a player and as a manager
* Only person in history to win FIFA's Player of the Year award and Coach of the Year award
* Only person in history to win the IFFHS award as the best playmaker and as a manager
* Only person in history to win the FIFA Club World Cup trophy successively as a manager
* Only manager in Real Madrid history to win five trophies in a calendar year
* Only person in history to win the FIFA Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup twice as a player and twice as a manager
* Only person in history to be named French Player of the Year twice and French Manager of the Year twice
* Highest score for a manager winning the IFFHS World's Best Club Coach award: 326 points

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