Zinedine Zidane and Quique Setien quickly shook hands before going their separate ways. It was late on a Sunday night of retrospective significance at the Estadio de Gran Canaria, Spain, in mid-March, ...

As part of our buildup to the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, we are publishing excerpted chapters from The Soccer 100, The Athletic’s definitive book on the 100 ...

Is Zinedine Zidane the best soccer player in the world? Definitely. But is he a legend of the modern game? Not quite. The last 15 years have offered up two players who, in one way or another, ...

The repercussions of the 2006 FIFA World Cup final between France and Italy were felt long after the July match after ...

The France national team is enjoying stability on the pitch but plenty of noise off it. The debate over the future of the ...

Zinedine Zidane brought Real Madrid's outcasts in from the cold and they repaid him with a win over Celta Vigo on Saturday but La Liga's title race could well be over after Atletico Madrid were beaten ...

A few months ago, Zinedine Zidane made a comeback. For the third time, a waxwork statue of him was unveiled at the Musee Grevin in Paris. In contrast to the previous versions, which celebrated his ...