There's absolutely nothing impressive about that post. It was just a load of vacuous guff. Lad is even claiming Hazard isn't a playmaker because his starting position was out wide as if Zidane didn't also play wide left for the majority of his Madrid career LOL.
Quality over quantity breh. Stealing posts from other forums to sound intelligent is about as low as it gets.
First I'm going to taper this by saying I don't rate Zidane that highly. Most people on the old Real Football section will know this. He was an outstanding player and fantastic on the eye but he was a big game bottler.
You couldn't be further from the truth. Forty-two years after Puskas had produced possibly Madrid's greatest - and, in truth, football's history - individual performance in Hampden Park, Zidane rose to meet that level, and it's viable to suggest he surpassed it, in the very same stadium. His volley was of the highest possible quality and on the greatest possible stage. It was a perfect example of transcendental ability, which was accustomed to his success.
The curiosity you pose of Zidane’s career is bizarre in that his quality still seemed to lack that kind of confirmation. He has somewhat universally been branded as the greatest footballer of all time - particularly on the international stage. Sure, he never quite consumed the mentality that saw other great players dominate on a consistent basis. In truth, he had a temper we all saw in the 2006 World Cup final and a series of other red cards. But the fact that they were isolated instances is also representative of his career positively on a large scale. However, it was in the biggest of games, if you will, that he brought out his cool, controlling presence aside from that moment of madness against Italy. Astutely, Rob Smyth described him as a "cerebral genius" and a "avant-garde footballer". And, along the same lines, Alex Ferguson once said that Zidane "didn't hurt teams" - which I believe relates to your interpretation that he's thought of too highly. While those views would appear to be criticisms at first, it was more so a reference to the fact that Zidane would tend to withdraw and dictate teams rather than decide them. As Thierry Henry said, “he is the guy we can always count on, the one who really takes control." That particular trait of his was explosive in the greatest games of his career. Zidane saved the most decisive moments for the most demanding occasions: the 1998 World Cup final where he lead France to the title; single-handedly ripping apart the second-best Selecao side ever, the entirety of Euro 2000 (where, once again, he was voted as the best player), the last couple minutes of France's Euro 2004 group game with England and the knock-out rounds of the 2006 World Cup.
@D10S I think I read when you 1st posted a source from it, because I remember seeing you post that maybe 8-9 months ago and that's dated June so was probably only a little while after you read it.
Yeah he was really doing some good translation work. Only other stuff I found about the Juventus team was two brief Italian blogs.
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There's absolutely nothing impressive about that post. It was just a load of vacuous guff. Lad is even claiming Hazard isn't a playmaker because his starting position was out wide as if Zidane didn't also play wide left for the majority of his Madrid career LOL.
Quality over quantity breh. Stealing posts from other forums to sound intelligent is about as low as it gets.
http://footballpantheon.com/2011/09/the-100-greatest-players-of-all-time/12/
@Samuel pls
edit: nvm i never saw Gil's post was confused
http://www.reddit.com/r/chelseafc/comments/3003ed/zouma_and_rlc_why_the_latter_isnt_ready_to_be/
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Yeah he was really doing some good translation work. Only other stuff I found about the Juventus team was two brief Italian blogs.