View Full Version : Zidane Retirement Countdown...
gazzad_5
16 Apr 2006, 10:36 AM
Today i started thinking, wow, we are coming to the end of the season. this means if Zidane calls it quits after the summer we wil have very few opportunities to see the great man play.
so i worked out we have a maximum of 16 games in which he could feature if he does retire this summer:
1 v Getafe (16/04/06)
2 v Málaga (23/04/06)
3 v Osasuna (30/04/06)
4 v Racing (03/05/06)
5 v Villarreal (07/05/06)
6 v Sevilla (14/05/06)
7 v MEXIQUE (27 mai 2006)
8 v DANEMARK (31 mai 2006)
9 v CHINE (07 juin 2006)
10 v SUISSE (13 juin 2006)
11 v COREE DU SUD (18 juin 2006)
12 v TOGO (23 juin 2006)
13 World Cup 2nd Round (24-27 June)
14 World Cup Quarter Finals (30 June-1st July)
15 World Cup Semi Finals (4-5 July)
16 World Cup Final (9 July)
There we have it. if he is to retire this summer these are the games in which he could feature. personally i think out of these he will play about 10.
all this could be irrelevant if he honours his contract until the summer of 2007
and here is the great man in action : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8451296196135992907&q=zidane&pl=true (probably the best compilation ive seen)
Tony the French
17 Apr 2006, 12:11 PM
Great Video !! Cool !!
sl7vk
17 Apr 2006, 01:01 PM
You can download it here if you are interested.
http://rapidshare.de/files/3652107/ZidaneFinal.wmv.html
gaijin
19 Apr 2006, 05:26 PM
I'll bet you any money he finishes his career in France with Marseille.
ANY money. You just know it'll happen.
Nanbawan
19 Apr 2006, 05:51 PM
I'll bet you any money he finishes his career in France with Marseille.
ANY money. You just know it'll happen.
Until Cyril Rool or another Ligue1 last poet breaks his legs...
sl7vk
19 Apr 2006, 05:56 PM
Until Cyril Rool or another Ligue1 last poet breaks his legs...
That's what happens when a Corsican tries to play soccer.
gazzad_5
20 Apr 2006, 10:46 AM
I'll bet you any money he finishes his career in France with Marseille.
ANY money. You just know it'll happen.
he did say he wil never do that
but i would love him to :D
gazzad_5
20 Apr 2006, 08:49 PM
if anybody is interest. news around Real is that he has called a press-conference for 26/4. apparantly he is expected to announce his retirement after the WC.
i was alerted to this news int he real madrid forum, where there is a thread on it
Substance
21 Apr 2006, 09:03 AM
its a pity that he's going to be retiring.
u see a lot of great players continue into their late 30's
i reckon his move to real madrid ruined his career
he shouldve stayed @ juventus.
ruudgullit
21 Apr 2006, 10:04 AM
its a pity that he's going to be retiring.
u see a lot of great players continue into their late 30's
i reckon his move to real madrid ruined his career
he shouldve stayed @ juventus.
Highly agreed, I think he would've been better off staying at Juve.
gaijin
21 Apr 2006, 10:41 AM
And what a better way to finish your career than to win another World Cup for your country. :p ;) :o
gazzad_5
21 Apr 2006, 11:02 AM
Highly agreed, I think he would've been better off staying at Juve.
i agree to a certain extent. i have just said on the thread in the RM forum that i think he should have left a few seasons back, and with heinsight he deffo would have done. same with ronaldo.
the early days were good. undr del bosque, and before the whole galatico era really got going. they were winning thigs, and were stable as a team. at that point the move seemed perfect. his football was sublime.
however once the whole 5 coaches in 2 years started he has never looked the same, cobined with him getting older it has seen the sad decline of a great man.
i think we will see him play well again in the summer. hopefully for him france can win the world cup and give him a fitting send off
sl7vk
21 Apr 2006, 11:08 AM
Never won the C1 at Juve. Real Madrid was a good move for him. He wouldn't even be playing for Juve at this point.
Psychosis hsv
21 Apr 2006, 11:10 AM
france will take so many years to find his true and worth replacement
sl7vk
21 Apr 2006, 11:11 AM
france will take so many years to find his true and worth replacement
Don't worry. There isn't a single person in the Hexagon that doesn't understand his true worth. The whole damned country begged him to come out of international retirement............
ruudgullit
21 Apr 2006, 12:03 PM
his football was sublime.
however once the whole 5 coaches in 2 years started he has never looked the same, cobined with him getting older it has seen the sad decline of a great man.
I've kind of wondered if maybe the Madrid training regimen/ lack there of isn't what took its toll on him. In the DVD "Comme Dans Un Reve", I think it mentions something about the Juventus training being very rigorous and some of the most difficult he had been through...interestingly enough he played some of his best football while there. Of course age adds, but it's just a thought.
Substance
21 Apr 2006, 12:18 PM
maybe so...
but if you think about all the great players in the past, their skill and status died down slowly...over many years....look at teddy sherringham...he aint the player he used to be, but god damn he can still play on his day...plenty of other examples...
but with zidane, it seems that he has gone from one extreme to the other.
from being the best to being totally off-form.
and this was achieved in the space of a few short years.
like i said, it all started going a-wall when he left juventus for real madrid.
sl7vk
21 Apr 2006, 12:29 PM
maybe so...
but if you think about all the great players in the past, their skill and status died down slowly...over many years....look at teddy sherringham...he aint the player he used to be, but god damn he can still play on his day...plenty of other examples...
but with zidane, it seems that he has gone from one extreme to the other.
from being the best to being totally off-form.
and this was achieved in the space of a few short years.
like i said, it all started going a-wall when he left juventus for real madrid.
You're smoking crack. Please tell me how these numbers have diminished for a man turning 35 this summer!
http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/fo/profiles/4112.html
In 5 years at both Real and Juve here is how his domestic numbers look
Juve 151 games 24 goals .16 goals per game
Real 151 games 34 goals .23 goals per game
He also won the Champions League in 02 with Real on perhaps one of the greatest goals in the history of the final.
Don't be revisionist historians just because of the nostalgia you once had for the man. His skills have not declined nearly as quickly as I thought they would. If anyone would have told me that he would have been anchoring France's midfield at the 06 World Cup in 98, I would have chuckled.....
Substance
21 Apr 2006, 12:42 PM
well thats the way i see things
he's still a great player and ill alway see him as one of the best.
and im so glad ill get to see him in the world cup.
he just aint the player that he used to be, and i feel his decline is faster then others.
either way, i cant wait to see him do some fancy move on some poor togo player :D
sl7vk
21 Apr 2006, 02:10 PM
http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/21042006/1/real-madrid-zidane-va-annoncer-sa-retraite-mercredi-selon-la.html