In Zidane’s defence: He is still the best soccer player of his
time  So Zizou bowed out and his epitaph will read, “He was the
greatest soccer player of his time except……. “. There should be
no second guessing at all, he is still the greatest soccer
player this generation has seen and we should count ourselves
fortunate to see him at his best. He did what no other player
did for France, win them them the World Cup and came close to
winning them another. Platini, as great as he was could not
manage it. Zidane was also at the vanguard of what we see as a
transformational moment in French soccer with it’s now taken for
granted mutli-ethnic hue. His play in the 1998 final when he
dismantled the Brazilians by his two stunning headers is what I
remember him by. The PK that he took in this final against Italy
where he beat a lunging Buffon with a delicately placed chip was
as good as the goal by Esteban Cambiasso after the concerto by
the Argentinians against the Serb- Montenegro team. Zidane is a
low key and privat