When Guy Roux first took charge of Auxerre, John F Kennedy was president and the Berlin Wall was yet to be built. Over 40 years later, he was still there
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Marcel Desailly sat down with These Football Times to look back on his career – the highs and the lows – and his greatest memories
Before hanging up his boots for good after the 2006 World Cup, two moments, across six years of this particular decade, defined Zinedine Zidane
There are few players who define a generation as adroitly as Thierry Henry, the man who reinvented what it meant to be a striker in England
Before Eric Cantona moved to England with Leeds United, he had enjoyed a mixed career in France, one punctuated by controversy on and off the pitch
Widely considered one of the greatest attacking talents in history, Raymond Kopa led Stade de Reims and Real Madrid to unprecedented heights
For a man of David Ginola’s spectacular talent, 17 national team caps do him very little justice. But then there’s perhaps a very good reason why
Vikash Dhorasoo was a tremendously talented player, but one who spent his entire career in search of the love that ultimately rarely came
Ginola was an enigmatic footballer who played with his heart on his sleeve – and his charisma and talent would see him become a true cult hero
He’s been a mainstay in Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, solid and consistent, but Aymeric Laporte remains one of the game’s most underrated stars
Year on year for seven solid seasons, Lyon were the toast of France, dominating at home with a revolving door policy that was unstoppable
Playing exciting, fast football, Senegal would conjure up all their might to unforgettably dispose of France in the opening game of the 2002 World Cup
Lethal at Marseille and unstoppable for France, the only thing that stopped Jean-Pierre Papin from becoming a worldwide legend was the timing of his career
Having had controversy follow him for much of his career, Florian Thauvin is finally blossoming into one of France’s best players at Marseille
Once described as the “best talent of his generation”, Gaël Kakuta was predicted by many to achieve greatness for Chelsea and for France
The son of a single mother and migrant from Guadeloupe, Thuram was raised in Paris and became Les Bleus’ record cap holder and a legend in calcio
This feature is part of Virtuoso If only they’d waited. In 2005, a film crew led by Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon decided to study Zinedine Zidane’s every movement during a game.…
This feature is part of Virtuoso The thing about the emergence of greatness is that when you see it, you know. It will not initially manifest to the full order of magnitude…