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Legends

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Zinedine Zidane, Attacking Midfielder, an elite playmaker, renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, Zidane was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll in 2004. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

At club level, Zidane won the La Liga title and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A league championships with Juventus and an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned teams. His 2001 transfer from Juventus to Real Madrid set a world record fee of an equivalent €75 million. His left-foot volleyed winner in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final is considered to be one of the greatest goals in the competition’s history. On the international stage with France, Zidane won the 1998 FIFA World Cup, scoring twice in the final, and UEFA Euro 2000 where he was named Player of the Tournament. The World Cup triumph made him a national hero in France, and he received the Légion d'honneur in 1998.

Zidane was named the FIFA World Player of the Year three times, in 1998, 2000 and 2003, and won the 1998 Ballon d'Or. He was Ligue 1 Player of the Year in 1996, Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2001 and La Liga Best Foreign Player in 2002. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100, a list of the world’s greatest living players compiled by Pelé. Zidane received the Golden Ball for player of the tournament at the 2006 World Cup.

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Ronaldinho applauded by Real Madrid fans in standing ovation, 2005

On 19 November, 2005, Ronaldinho scored twice as Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3–0 on the road in the first leg of El Clásico. After he sealed the match with his second goal, Madrid fans paid homage to his performance by applauding, so rare a tribute only Diego Maradona had ever been granted previously as a Barcelona player at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.

 Ronaldinho stated, “I will never forget this because it is very rare for any footballer to be applauded in this way by the opposition fans.”

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Pele, during the 1970 World Cup.

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Dani Alves: "When we beat Barcelona in the Champions League, I walked up to my brother Neymar and gave him a hug."

Alves: "Neymar was crying, and a part of me felt like crying, too.”

Alves: “Was I disrespected by the board of directors before I left the club last summer? Absolutely."

Alves: "That is simply how I feel, and you can never tell me any different."

Alves: "But you cannot play for a club for eight years, and achieve everything that we did, and not have that club in your heart forever."

Alves: "Managers, players and board members come and go. But Barça will never go away."

Alves: “Before I went to Juventus, I made a final promise to the board at Barcelona. I said: ‘You’re going to miss me.’"

Alves: "I didn’t mean as a player. Barça have plenty of incredible players. What I meant was that they were going to miss my spirit."

Alves: "They were going to miss the care I had for dressing room. They were going to miss the blood I spilled every time I put on the shirt”

Alves: "I remember during one training session, Messi was doing things with the ball at his feet that defied logic."

Alves: "Of course, that is what he did every day. Only this time, something was different."

Alves: "Now, I need to remind you, this was an extremely intense training session. We were not messing around."

Alves: "Messi was dribbling through the defence and finishing like a killer."

Alves: "And then as Messi is running past me, I look down at his boots, and I'm thinking to myself, Is this a joke?"

Alves: "Messi comes running past again, and now I'm sure what I'm seeing. His damn boots were untied. Both of them."

Alves: "Messi comes running past again, and I think, No, it's impossible."

Alves: "This guy was playing against best defenders in world, just floating around pitch, and he was acting like it's a Sunday in the park."

Alves: "That was the moment when I knew that I was never going to play with someone like Messi ever again in my life."

Alves: "Three months ago, when Barcelona made their incredible comeback against PSG in the CL, I was watching every moment from my couch."

Alves: "You might think from reading the newspapers that I was hoping my old club would lose."

Alves: "But when my brother Neymar scored that beautiful free kick? I jumped up from my couch and was screaming at the television."

Alves:"And when Sergi Roberto performed a miracle in the 95th minute? Like every other Barca fan in the world, I was going absolutely crazy"

Alves: "Because the truth is that Barcelona is still in my blood."

Alves: "When I had to play against Barca in the next round, it was a very weird feeling."

Alves: "Especially in the second leg at the Camp Nou, I felt like I was home again."

Alves: "Right before the match started, I went over to the Barca bench to say hello to my old friends."

Alves: "And they were saying, "Dani, come sit with us! We saved your seat!"

Alves: "I went sprinting back to the field, and I could hear my old manager, Luis Enrique, laughing his ass off."

Alves: "Pep would tell you exactly how everything was going to happen in a match before it even happened."

Alves: "Against RM in 2010, when we won 5-0? Pep told us before the match, "Today, you're going to play like the football is a ball of fire"

Alves: "It never stays at your feet. Not even half second. If you do that, there will be no time for them to pressure us.We will win easily"

Alves: "The funniest thing was if we came in at half-time and the game wasn't going well. Pep would sit down and rub his forehead."

Alves: "You know how he rubs his head? You've seen it, right? Like he's massaging his brain, searching for the genius to come to him."

Alves: "He would do this right in front of us in the dressing room. Then, like magic, it would come to him. Bang!"

Alves: "Pep was the first coach in my life who showed me how to play without the ball."

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Cristiano speaks about the legendary game that changed his life and inspired his new boots. 

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Cristiano Ronaldo presents the Ballon d’Or to the fans at the Bernabéu - 7.1.2017

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Ronaldinho vs Atletico Nacional

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