Zinedine Zidane is a football player.
Association football , more commonly known as football or soccer , is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball . The FIFA 100 is a list of the world-renowned Brazilian striker Pelé 's choice of the `` greatest living footballers '' . The FIFA World Player of the Year was an association football award presented annually by the sport 's governing body , FIFA , since 1991 . The Serie A Footballer of the Year ( Migliore calciatore assoluto ) is a yearly award organized by the Italian Footballers ' Association ( AIC ) given to the footballer who has been considered to have performed the best over the previous Serie A season . Zinedine Zidane . He was Ligue 1 Player of the Year in 1996 , Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2001 and La Liga Best Foreign Player in 2002 .