For a couple of Zinedine Zidane’s five seasons at Real Madrid, the main camera angle for the coverage of the Spanish giant’s home games made the French midfielder look like he had gone for a trim with a picture of Friar Tuck in his hand, looked at the barber and asked, “One of those please, mate.”
It was the in-between time; after his bald patch had moved unforgivingly towards full-on baldness, but before he had embraced the shaven look that currently complements his intimidatingly sartorial air.
With the camera perched up in the rafters of the Santiago, the hair he still possessed around the sides of his head gave him the look of a man who had chosen to forego worldly pleasures and commit his life to the service of God.
He had not shut himself away in a rural monastery, fortunately for us, but the ecclesiastical hairstyle was appropriate. For Zizou had dedicated himself to mastering the holiest of arts: the first touch.
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