I was just watching videos of Zidane in the 2006 World Cup and the composure of him and the vision and dribbling was superb. Just to think is there any players that currently plays like him now ? I think the closest was Pogba

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    1 year ago

    Hard to say, because there is no place for players like Zidane in modern football, at least on the top level. Zidane was quite slow, inconsistent, free role player and didn’t participate in systemic defense, which he himself admitted

    Zinedine Zidane : “Football today, physically it has changed a lot. In my time you can be less well physically it was not a big deal you could get out of it with your technique. Today, physically, it might have played tricks on me.”

    So, I guess the modern adapted version of Zidane style would be some kind of deep-lying attacking playmaker, someone like Szoboslai, which is still quite a rare type.