Varane had completed football at 25. He moves on three years later having achieved all that he could in Madrid. It is the right time for fresh targets and the Premier League will have its own challenges. But Karanka is convinced that he will ...
Zinedine Zidane is not the first sportsman to have been wound up by an opponent and suffer the consequences.Verbal jostling is an inherent part of the game with opponents always seeking to gain some sort of psychological advantage.Not all react in the same way as Zidane, of course, who ...
Zinedine Zidane claimed that the terms No 9 or No 10 did not do him justice, he was a bit of everything. It was what he did but also where he did it, creating space for Ronaldo. Another old coach, Jose Mourinho, said it was no coinciden...
This is the biggest Football World Cup controversy ever. It was 19 minutes into the extra time of the final match of the 2006 world cup when Zinedine Zidane, one of the best soccer players of all time, left the whole world in awe. In one sudden move, the French head-butted Marco Mate...
Former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane is mentioned by German media. But it seems uncertain if the 46-year-old three-time Champions League winner feels like taking over a struggling team after he retired in Madrid. Former Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuettl lacks experience as he never worked with...
When Varane was unveiled at Old Traffordvideo “In 2011, I hurtled down on the train from Euston to Lille to sign the young French defender Raphael Varane,“ Ferguson wrote. “David Gill was getting into the finer points of the contract with Lens, Varane’s club, when Zinedine Zidane g...
The draw at Old Trafford was just the second game of his reign but it was enough to prove to his players, and to the fans, that Otto Rehhagel was on to something. "The first thing he taught us was that the national team had to come first," says Fyssas. Greek football is fier...
Football is the universal language In despatches from home, my wife describes a friend, recently arrived in the UK and with little English, bringing his family to meet ours last weekend. With no need for words, his 10-year old and our grandson s...
Though they are learning words at 10 months old, infants tend to grasp the names of objects that interest them rather than whatever the speaker thinks is important, a new study finds. And they do it quickly. The infants were able to learn two new words in five minutes with just five pre...
we're all professional footballers and we're used to criticism, so it's up to us to make him happy.'And it seems the 22-year-old is beginning to make Mourinho happy. There was a time when Hazard's form and Mourinho's comments suggested he might struggle to adapt to his new manager...