From memory .. When Zidane taught the Brazilians a lesson in ball arts!

How enormous superheroes we envy when we are young in our homes, watching them save the world and using their limitless superpowers to save humanity from the bad guys, how we envy the superman, a muscular man with a laser beam that can divide those he does not like into two halves, he can fly better than birds, and more A handsome from David Beckham. We grew older and that perfect image gradually began to recede in front of us, because the man saves the world but faces the danger in order to protect us, the muscles are muscular but he certainly exhausts himself for long periods in the gyms to reach that perfect structure, he can fly all the time but he is mostly alone in the sky Without a companion talking to and sharing. Yes, the Super Man often envied us for his strength, but very little we realized the depth of his tragedy.

Philip Barreno woke up on a pleasant morning in Frankfurt, Germany, to the sound of his friend Douglas Gordon's computer, which he shared with a room in a hotel near the Commerzbank Arena in one of the summer of 2006. Of course, Barreno was able to distinguish that sound easily because it was the soundtrack of their film Little documentary. Pareno kept staring at the ceiling of the room a lot, suffering from headaches, not knowing exactly what caused him, perhaps because he remained awake until late at night, or because he kept worrying all the time about the reactions of everyone about that movie that was released a month from now, and on the side The other side of the room sits English artist Douglas Gordon and seems to have been awake for a few hours already.

Parino saluted Doug but the latter did not pay attention to him, he seems to be engaging in watching the film, Philip rose from his bed and went to Gordon, the music continued for about ten minutes, all that time and Barreno became engaging with the film as well as Doug. The two separated from the world, yes, watching Zidane close up playing a great thing, but putting Zidane in a real match and 17 cameras from all corners of the field depicting him, he is only alone, it was like madness, but it happened in that movie that Phil is following Now Doug, which is their creation and released about a month ago.

Our super hero appears in the staff throughout the movie moving left and right, asking for the ball, running as if he is fighting for survival. Our vision for the match changes that time and we can see it from the main camera to transfer matches, a cross from outside the penalty area that Beckham sends from the right to Zidane on the left. Zidane receives the ball, tries to dodge but does not know, fools everyone and sends a wonderful heel ball to the back, Roberto Carlos, hijacking the crow's shouts, along with a shout issued by Pareno when he saw that shot.

The ball bounces and goes to Zidane again, receives the ball and dodge and then launches a powerful shot that hits Villarreal defenders and exits outside the field. Zidane continues to move, to watch, to talk a little with his colleagues, to stand alone most of the time. Zidane continues to move, spins and turns, his touches of the ball are very few, Zidane remains alone, and the sound of music increases more and more. The shooting angle brings us back to the main top camera, Zidane complains to Raoul about something, we do not know what it is, Raul turns away, Zidane moves forward, the sound of music rises more, the ball moves away from Villarreal's penalty area, Zidane returns to his unit again.

Doug closes the movie, and the two then start looking at each other in amazement, Doug remembers that he did not have to salute Parino for him when he woke up: "Good morning, Pareno", then the two remember that the match has only three hours left, dressed, and although Parino was basically French, because he didn't wear his national team shirt. They go out of the room to find themselves on the pitch, or this is what they initially thought, because of all these people who wear the Brazilian shirts and the French national team shirts, one passes by them wearing Ronaldinho's mask, the other one wears the Zidane mask, prepares for Doug that he saw someone like Ronaldo phenomenon He passed by, then re-looked at him to find that he was just someone like him who had cut his hair in the famous Brazilian style of the 2002 World Cup, the atmosphere was unusual in the stadium, or hey hey, it is the hotel lobby is nothing more.

The duo set out to the match court, the Combertsbank Arena, in an unusual atmosphere on the streets similar to the ones they experienced at the hotel, and although the surrounding hustle and bustle could not be easily avoided, what they saw in their room remained suspended in their heads all the way, they saw that movie For a great number of times, but that particular time, with that music, and a few hours before the movie star's fateful match against Brazil in the World Cup quarter-finals, she had magic that they did not know its source, they did not talk much all the way, not even when they reached their seats in the stadium .

The purpose of the movie in the first place was to show the greatness of Zidane, to show his way of thinking and expressions throughout the game, how he moves, how he touches the ball, how he prepares the soles of his foot to pass the ball, and how he prepares his face to shoot a shot, that was all they wanted to deduce from the 17 The camera that sent them to the Santiago Bernabeu two years ago from now, but here in Germany, with that music, it became clear how much isolation and unity Zidane lived throughout the film; Absurd face most of the time, a mouth that does not speak much, and a cadre that only has Zidane alone for an hour and a half. It turned into the eyes of Phil and Doug from a movie about the life of a sports hero to a philosophical issue and a dramatic crisis that do not exist every day in the cinema.

"I just want to say that I will retire from football after the World Cup." Those words are what made Phil and Doug appear here that night. In the beginning, it was like seeing one of the game's superheroes one last time because he could no longer do more, because he wanted to retire at the best possible level, but it turned out that she might be Farewell to a person fed up with the loneliness and isolation that he suffers from inside that green rug, those thoughts have been chasing an elephant and a dogg while sitting in the stands, and only one thing has interrupted him, the players leaving the tunnel.

Small steps were present in the face of the tunnel leading to the pitch, 10 minutes remaining before the start of the match, and a bald man bearing the number 10 wearing a blue badge on his left arm, holding a small song in his hand, placing a head on his head, sitting on one of the stairs, music coming out From his head to the point that we were able to distinguish it, it was not any music, it is that we heard in the room of Phil and Doug at the beginning, it is the soundtrack of the movie, the team members began to sequence out one after another from the changing room, Zidane puts his record recorder in the room Then he returns to them again. Now Zidane is ready, now Zidane is ready to have some fun.

"This is probably the best performance he's ever seen in the last eight years."

              (Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Pereira on that night)

There was a special magic that night that you could feel in the air. An elephant and a dog from the top were watching and feeling it too, and in 34 seconds, he made sure of that, when Zidane took the ball in the midst of both Roberto and Ricardo Kaka, to put the ball behind them with heels He went and moved with her, moving away from them, to find Gilberto Silva in front of him trying to understand what was happening, to dodge him Zidane before he absorbed anything, it was a strong worded warning from Zidane in the first minute, and everything that the Brazilians were trying to know that night was one thing, how would they stop this the man?

Zidane runs on the field, Zidane touches the ball, Zidane passes to his teammates, Zidane signs every attack made by the French team, Zidane plays with an ideal that we have never seen before, the music suddenly appears, it is inside the mind of Zidane now. Zidane receives the ball, then passes it to his teammates, returning to isolation as we saw in the movie Phil and Doug, but he does not prolong it because the ball returns to him again. The music gets louder, Zidane plays the ball his last possible match, and plays it much better than expected. The ball is now to the left.

The ball jumps confused between Zidane and Kaka, Zidane puts his body in front of Kaka and isolates him completely from the ball, taking it with the face of his right foot and then makes it jump on his right thigh, then passes his left to his colleague Gallas, screaming Pareno from the stands because of the beauty of that shot. The ball returns to Zidane via his compatriot Abidal, Zidane stands in front of the right-back Kafu, Abidal went from behind Kafu without the ball, and Zidane quickly pulled the ball with his right foot back and at the same moment he sent it left to Abidal. Cafu went with the wind, the fans sounded much louder than the music that time.

Zidane's touch to the ball that night was a strange amount of pleasure, despite its simplicity most of the time, and although he was doing simple and not very complicated things like that of Ronaldinho, for example, but he used to do it quietly and emotionally steadily, adding to his touches luster. Unmatched. What added to the whole thing is much more joy and beauty than usual to Zidan that every touch he made had a goal in the interest of France, every move he made was like the lung that the French team used to make his attacks that night, the simplest example of this was in the forty-fourth minute From that match, when the sound of music rose again.

Zidane stood watching Brazil's attack, the ball is now with Cafu who passes it to Ronaldinho, Ronaldinho gives it back to Cafu, who sends a cross quickly dispersed by Gallas, bounces and goes to Zidan. Zidane runs the ball quickly with a promising counterattack to France, just passed by Kaka and Juninho. Now Lucio fell before him on the ground, then Gilberto Silva passed after him in a split second and also fell on the ground. Parino and Douglas shouted from above in the stands and interacted with the ball, some saying they saw Parino shed tears when he saw that shot.

Zidane continued to run for two seconds and reached the halfway field before sending a pass to Vieira that put him in a solitary position before being blocked by Brazil defender Joan at the edge of the penalty area. Zidane is rushing towards the match referee, protesting that snapshot that Joan spoiled the promising attack of the French team, the referee does not give him attention and gives a yellow card to Joan, a free kick in the last minute of the French team, on the implementation of Zidane and Henry, paid by Zizou to crash into the human wall, and with it she goes The referee's whistle.

Parino and Doug calm down a little by the end of the first half, it was a good opportunity to catch up, "Parino, I know it's an inappropriate time but I have a surprise for you," so Doug finally broke the silence that lasted all day between the duo.

- And what is Doug?

= I woke up early this morning on my phone ringing, the call was from Paris, congratulations my friend, our little film César was nominated for Best Documentary.

Parino silence and smiled lightly, the two hugged each other and were happy with that achievement, then Parino replied, saying:

-Oh, it's great, really cool, let's see what our superhero on the pitch will end up doing today, and then we'll go celebrate whatever the outcome.

Then the pair looked back to the stadium, the two teams went back to the green carpet again and the second half started, the start of the half was quiet for Zidane, much less than its counterpart in the first half, Zidane cut off a lot of his comrades, became moving everywhere but the ball does not reach it, So the situation lasted for ten minutes, isolation was similar to the one we saw in the movie, but it is strange that this time that the sound of music that we have had over the past period did not exist.

Zidane started moving until he reached the center circle, it was about 55 minutes, when Zidane suddenly received a header ball from his compatriot Vieira. The ball hit the ground and rose slightly with air, before rising again, affected by Zidane's right foot, but this time not only above the ground, but also On top of the phenomenon Ronaldo himself, then he passed the ball to his head to Abidal, who in turn passed it to Malouda, who was able to gain a violation against the Brazilian leader Cafu, and then the voice of Zidane himself appeared, but in his mind, with those words he said to Barreno and Gordon when he met them before filming the movie.

Zidane stood on the ball, looking at his comrades inside the penalty area, Vieira and Thuram next to each of Abidal and Gallas, watching with six players from the Brazilian team, to avoid Zidane's cross from all those heads and feet, and now the picture is as follows: the ball is in the air, Zidane is looking at her, Henry is running Behind everyone and put it with his quick and strong right over the Brazilian goalkeeper Dida, the French crowd collapses with joy and everyone on the field runs and celebrates, Phil and Doug hugging each other and jumping in their places, chanting one word: "Zizou ... Zizou" without stopping, and behind all that joy, Zidane stood Alone away from that noise at the technical staff of his team, he looks at her smiling, thanking the sky and then returning to the middle of his court.

"I can hear someone coughing, I can hear someone whispering in the ear of his friend who is sitting next to him, I can imagine that I am listening to the sound of the clock ticking."

The task of the national team after that in the remaining half an hour was very simple, just keep the ball out of France's goal, pass the ball to Zidane and he will know what to do, and this is really what happened; Zidane passes the ball and transfers it between his colleagues, Zidane keeps the ball between his feet, Zidane roulette and dodges his biggest victim tonight Gilberto Silva, Zidane arrives in France until after the ninety minutes to safety and crosses them to the semi-finals of the tournament, and prolongs his career in the stadiums another game Further, Zidane celebrated quietly with his companions, and as he was leaving the stadium he spoke to himself with those words that he ended his dialogue with Phil and Doug just before filming their movie:

"When you're on the field, you're never alone."

Now Phil looks at Doug crying, saying: "Well, my friend Gordon, congratulate us on our nomination for the Cesar Prize, but nevertheless they were crushed. If she had 17 cameras today, we'd get the same Oscar." The two laughed, got out of the stands, and returned to their country. Then, months later, they met du Theater de Châtelier, who did not receive a prize for her day, but at least they made sure of two things. The first is that this is what they saw on the night of the first of July, perhaps the best individual performance in the history of the World Cup, and the second, they confirmed that during Zidane's presence on the pitch throughout his career, he was never alone.