MYTHICAL – National championships, World Cup, Ballon d’Or, Euro. By the summer of 2000, Zinedine Zidane had already won almost every trophy possible in the world of football. All except the Champions League, which he would only win once, thanks to a goal that he now considers the most significant of his career. The most beautiful ” Also.
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This is what Zizou explained on the Spanish show The Beach Bar. Asked about the goal to remember from his long and prolific career, the former playmaker of the French team made a choice that he considers to be “not very original”. It was not the two headers that gave Les Bleus their first star, but his splendid volley during the 2002 Champions League final between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen.
To score the decisive goal of the match, which you can find below from 4’30Real’s number 5 had taken a lobbed cross from Roberto Carlos and sent the ball into the top corner of German Hans-Jörg Butt. Successful from the edge of the area, this strike is considered by many observers to be one of the greatest goals of all time.
A deliverance for the former midfielder
So, the former captain of the Blues did not choose one of his three goals in the World Cup final. If the panenka against Gianluigi Buffon, then the best goalkeeper in the world, can keep a bitter taste because of the defeat (and his expulsion) against Italy in 2006, the two heads of the France – Brazil of 1998 could have claimed the title.
But by scoring for the Merengue in the 45th minute the goal for 2-1, Zidane offered himself his one and only Champions League. Marked by two finals lost in 1997 and 1998 when he was wearing the jersey of Juventus Turin, the Frenchman remains the final scorer of the match whose score did not change in the second half. “It was the trophy I was missing and we needed that goal to win it.”
After his playing career, the Marseillais won three additional Champions Leagues as coach of the White House club thanks to an unprecedented consecutive treble in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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