Zinedine Zidane is a sports idol in the public domain. We who praise him need not know how to defend him.

The volcanic character of him is very punctual, but decisive. Maradona is as iconic disfiguring English people at the Azteca as he is being arrested completely drugged after who knows how many days of partying and surrounded by cameras. We fans are closer to the party of that department of Buenos Aires than to theAzteca. It is the other side, the inexplicable or the unexpected, that elevates an idol to a legend.