The Blizzard: Brazil 0-1 France, 2006
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 31 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
For our latest episode of Greatest Games, we’re joined by football writer and broadcaster Tom Williams as we take a deeper look at the 2006 World Cup quarter-final between Brazil and France. This match, despite being awash with some of the greatest players in history, was completely dominated by the balletic and utterly irresistible Zinedine Zidane.
After two poor seasons with Real Madrid, many—Zidane included—felt his star was on the wane. So pervasive was this sentiment, that he announced his retirement ahead of this tournament. What followed however, against Spain in the Round of 16 and against Brazil, was a final glimpse of Zidane at his best in all his former glory. This Joga Bonito-inspired Brazil side, featuring some of the nation’s greatest attacking talent ever, could do nothing in response. Zidane left his mark on this game in broad, beautiful strokes and cemented himself as one of the greatest midfielders football has ever seen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to greatest games on football Ample Daily in association with the Blizzard. |
| 0:07.0 | I am very happy to have you here. |
| 0:14.0 | I am very happy to have you here. |
| 0:21.0 | And that is kind of the same. |
| 0:24.0 | That is the same. |
| 0:25.0 | So don't you have heard that kind of theory only? |
| 0:28.0 | Joining myself, Mark Aspelis and Jonathan Wilson today is Tom Williams, contribute to bleach |
| 0:33.6 | Europa, ESPN, Independent and many others. |
| 0:36.6 | And the author of Do You Speak Football Tom, lovely to have you with us. |
| 0:39.6 | Thank you, Marcus. |
| 0:40.6 | Lovely to be here. |
| 0:41.6 | We are traveling back to the 2006 World Cup quarter final between Brazil and France. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, Tom, why have you chosen this game? |
| 0:50.6 | So the thinking behind choosing this game was that it gives us an opportunity to talk about Xenadine Zidane. |
| 0:55.6 | This was arguably his finest performance in a French shirt. |
| 1:01.6 | Coming right towards the end of his career, we saw Zidane at his sinewy, balletic, elegant best. |
| 1:09.6 | And there was occasionally a criticism of Zidane. |
| 1:12.6 | I think this is perhaps more after his career than the one it was ongoing, that he would decorate games without ever really running them. |
| 1:18.6 | And this game, he bosses from start to finish, from his first touch to the ball to the final whistle. |
| 1:24.6 | In so doing, ends the World Cup careers of some of the most decorated Brazilian footballers of recent times. |
| 1:31.6 | So yeah, a chance to wax lyrical about Zidane, which is always a pleasure to talk about the unexpected blossoming of that France team. |
| 1:40.6 | And also to talk about Brazil and the fact that they went into that tournament thinking they were going to be able to just blow everyone away |
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