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Article: European Football: The trophy that is bigger than ever As the accountants become king the Champions' League has usurped the World Cup as the tournament to win
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2002
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AS SYMBOLISM goes, nothing could have been more revealing of a new
pecking order in the glory game of football than two dramatic images
of the world's greatest player, Zinedine Zidane.
In one he is scoring the tumultuous, mesmerising goal which
delivered a ninth European Cup for his club Real Madrid at Hampden
Park last May. In the other, a few weeks later, he is standing
bewildered and covered in sweat on a World Cup field as Denmark over-
ran his belief that he could score one of the most stunning doubles
in the history of the game.
Zidane was a god in Glasgow. He was a hard-run, broken down horse
in Korea. It is the way now ordained by the calender and the
imperatives of the game in the ...