After a successful year winning both the UEFA Champions League and Copa del Rey, Zinedine Zidane became the coach of Real Madrid’s B team, Real Madrid Castilla.Greatest Sporting AchievementsIn 2004, Zinedine Zidane was named best European soccer player of the past 50 years by the UEFA Golden...
He remains resolutely unknowable and yet his story is one that is reflected by millions the world over. As David Goldblatt states in his excellent chronicle of modern day football,The Age of Football, Zidane’s silence on the controversy of his life has made him an “irresistible tabula rasa ...
as a genuinely world-class player at Madrid, McManaman has been shunned by Eriksson.Amid all his many achievements, the Swede's inability to get the best out of Macca for England represents his greatest failure.Eriksson is said to have been appalled by McManaman's casual approach to the ...