2. Early Career Zinedine started his career at Cannes, he made his first appearance when aged only 17, and when he scored his first goal for the club he was rewarded with a new car from the club President.
3. Time at Bordeaux After an impressive start to his career Zidane was transferred to Bordeaux in 1992, at his time at the club Zidane formed a now legendary midfield partnership with Christophe Dugarry, that would become the trademark of both the Bordeaux and French National team. It is also interestingly rumored that in 1995 after Blackburn manager Kenny Dalglish became interested in signing the young French star club Chairman Jack Walker famously told Dalglish “Why do you need to sign Zidane when we’ve got Tim Sheerwood!?”.
4. Juventus Switch Juventus instead of several other interested clubs was the final destination of Zidane in the summer of 1996, the newly crowned European Champions splashed out £3 Million on the French International. Zidane’s time at the club was extremely successful with a European Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup, Italian Super Cup, 2 Serie A titles, a UEFA Intertoto Cup and 2 Champions league runner up medals.
5. Record Breaker When Zinedine Zidane moved to Real Madrid from Juventus in the summer of 2001 the world record transfer fee that had been set by Luis Figo (also to Real Madrid) only a year previous was smashed. The fee reported to be as high as £46 Million brought the 2 times World Player of the year to a team already being dubbed as the “Galacticos”.
6. The Headbutt Although it has still not been confirmed what exactly Marco Materrazzi said to Zidane it has been suggested he commented on Zidane’s sister.
