A hush descends upon the boys standing in a neat semi-circle on a pitch at the Z5 sports complex in Aix-en-Provence. They are between six and eight years old and all play for La Castellane, the ...

A version of this piece was published in 2020. It has been updated to run as part of our special World Cup: Reconsidered series… This is a series re-assessing famous individual or team ...

Zinedine Zidane to the rescue. Widely regarded as one of the best soccer players in the sport's history, Zidane is responsible for 31 goals in 108 international appearance for the French national ...

Zidane knows the immense esteem I have for him, like all French people.” On Sunday, Le Graet had said Zidane was on the radar and had plenty of support but stood no chance of replacing Deschamps.