Boasting the young but brilliant talents of Zidane, Lizarazu and Dugarry, Bordeaux, languishing in Ligue 1, would end AC Milan’s greatest era
Tag: bordeaux
Boasting spectacular natural talent, Enzo Scifo could’ve been one of his generation’s greatest, but was often misunderstood at the highest level
You can’t trust black goalkeepers. So said the prevailing wisdom for much of the last century. Black players, the story went, are untrustworthy – fine on the wing but lacking in fight.…
The French know how to do a dynasty. The Merovingian’s ruled from 428-751, the Carolingian’s took over, ruling until the mid-10th century, and the Capetian dynasty ran the show for just over 800…
It was a goal that was impossible to ignore, the kind of high-level showboatery that’s worth the price of admission alone. On a misty January evening inside the Stade Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux,…
From a simple life as the son of two Algerian migrants to the peak of football, we celebrate the genius and madness of Zinedine Zidane and his career as football’s ultimate big-game player.