Despite their lack of knowledge on the subject they still knew who what this player was super human.Ī young Zidane, some say with the famous bald patch even then, first kicked a football in the square of his apartment block located on “the wrong side of the tracks” in Marseille. “The guy with the bald patch, the one that looks like a monk” those outside football would say, “isn’t he the best in the world now?”. When we football fans watched the great Zinedine Zidane step onto a pitch and turn it into his playground, we knew exactly what professor X was talking about.Īt every stage of his career, in any game he played, Zidane was a player who would inspire fans young and old to find their nearest football so they could try their best to mimic the tricks and flicks they had just seen the legendary Frenchman dazzle them with.Īn icon of the beautiful game, he was known world wide by not just football fanatics. The intro to almost all of the X-Men movies is monologue narrated by professor X informing us on the next stages of human evolution and that individuals with super human abilities may already be among us.
