Zidane on his way to Old Trafford

April 22, 2010

Zinedine Zidane is coming to Old Trafford.

The legendary French international will top the bill at a star-studded match in June for Soccer Aid.

Zidane retired in 2006 but the former three times World Player of the Year will return for his first visit to Old Trafford since 2003.

Seven years ago next week the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship winner was part of the Galactico Real Madrid side who, though losing a sensational 4-3 semi final, knocked United out of the Champions League on aggregate.

Zidane, who also played at Old Trafford for Juventus, will be part of an illustrious celebrity line-up for Soccer Aid including Robbie Williams, Gordon Ramsay, Ricky Hatton and ex-United stars Teddy Sheringham and Henrik Larsson.

The match will take place at Old Trafford on Sunday June 6.

Call 0844 576 2010 or visit itv.com/socceraid for tickets.

Who is the best player you have ever seen play at Old Trafford? Have your say.

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jordy, Middleton (22/04/2010 at 14:37)

The best players I've ever seen play at Old Trafford, Top 5, 5. Keane, 4. Robson, 3.v. Nistelrooy, 2. Ronaldo, 1. Cantona.There's others but you could never pick just the one without adding others along the way!

Gilly, Belgium (22/04/2010 at 15:45)

Cantona and Ronaldo and van Nistelrooy to name a few , the others will follow ! ................

bissau777 (22/04/2010 at 15:53)

George Best, Bobby Charlton, Dennis Law, Cantona, and Ronaldo!

BigumRF, Denmark (22/04/2010 at 16:08)

Ronaldo! .. Just Youtube it and you'll find plenty of proof!

chris, oxford (22/04/2010 at 16:24)

Sign him up!

paul evans (22/04/2010 at 23:54)

zidane the greatest footballer of all time FANTASTIC PLAYER to watch

john coulias (23/04/2010 at 06:35)

As a Manchester United fan of Fifty Years I had the privelege to see George Best at his best and believe me no-one comes close the man was a footballing GENIUS!
He could dribble.run,shoot with both feet,head and if he had not been from Northern Ireland I am sure that he would have been considered as good if not better than Pele.Maradonna etc.
I have never seen a player who excited fans the way Bestie did and I probably never will.
Thanks for the memories George.

Red Bill, Salford (23/04/2010 at 09:17)

Quite easily the best I've seen at OT was a young lad they called Big Duncan. The next was a young lad called Bestie.

phil columbine (23/04/2010 at 13:25)

Jordy, Middleton, Luis Figo (you didn't say it had to be a United player)over Roy Keane,anyday. Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, The REAL Ronaldo, who hit the best hatrick i've ever seen in my life. so good, it even had the UNITED singing his name. Cantona deffinatly, and the one and only Van Nistlerooy.

jordy, Middleton (23/04/2010 at 20:33)

Phil Columbine at 13:25, yes your right, it didn't say a United player. I was there that evening when Brazilian Ronaldo hit that hat trick. Indeed, he was rightly applauded off by us. I remember Figo getting nutmegged in that match by O'Shea, so I mark him down on that alone! Still Keane for me, pulled us out of some tight situations as did Robson.

jordy, Middleton (23/04/2010 at 20:47)

Reading that article again, it was a quarter final, not a semi final.

WesBrown6, Raaholt, Norway (25/04/2010 at 08:47)

Now I'm just glad I can't get to that game. I would never pay money to see Zidane play, he's just not good enough.

Isaacamy, New Zealand (26/04/2010 at 20:43)

Duncan Edwards was the best player to wear the United shirt - awesome!

Bill of Bury, Lancashire (26/04/2010 at 21:39)

It just has to be Duncan Edwards. My younger brother was installing "crowd balustrading" at OT , it was perhaps eleven o'clock in the morning, maybe Monday. Suddenly there comes forth this booming singing voice - "I'd love to go a wandering along the mountain track"..... and our kid looks up and big Dunc appears, sees our kid, stops singing, turns bright red, smiles meekly, waves to him and disappears below the stand! Great Great player - greatest by a country mile!

Bill

E of E (Excellence Of Execution), (27/04/2010 at 14:47)

For a non-United player, people will always bang on about players like Messi, Zidane and Ronaldo (R9), the 'skills' player. I've always liked the under-rated, though. I'll go for arguably one of the most important/influential performance seen at Old Trafford since 1999. The year is 2000, and his name is Fernando Redondo. A superior performance to Keane in Turin, he dominated him at the height of his powers.

If we're going to talk about great players coming to Old Trafford, it has to be my favourite all-time player, Roberto Baggio- I remember being delighted when I learned United had drawn Inter Milan in 1999, while he was there, and although I wasn't able to make it to the game, I was fortunate enough to at least manage to catch it on tv. At this stage, he was into his 30s, but still, it was a moment I treasure more than most in football. Trophies aren't, and never will be everything.

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