On the eve of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, France specially invited the Chinese team to warm up before the game in order to meet the South Korean team in the same group, hoping to take this opportunity to adapt to the Asian team's style of play, this game is also the last warm-up game of the French team before the World Cup.
About 10 minutes into the game, French star Cisse tripped over Zheng Zhi's right foot during a scramble with Zheng Zhi, the captain of the Chinese team, and was forced to leave the field due to injury when he landed. caused a lot of losses to the French team in the front line, although they reached the final, but finally lost to Italy and won the runner-up!
Cisse's sporting career was "quite tortuous", and before he fractured his right leg, in October 2004, not long after joining Liverpool, Cisse was kicked off his left calf in a Premier League game against Blackburn. The injury against the Chinese team also made Cisse's two legs suffer from injuries, because of this game, Chinese football put on the hat of violent football, and the stalks of "Zheng Zhi" and "Zheng Zhihua" also spread, and every time Cisse was mentioned, Zheng Zhi would be ridiculed.
After suffering a second leg break, Cisse's athleticism suffered a "devastating" blow, leaving Liverpool in the Premier League and moving to Marseille, Sunderland, Lazio, Queens Park Rangers and other teams, each team did not stay for long, and it was difficult to return to the top of the form, in October 2015, the 34-year-old Cisse announced his retirement.
But two years later, on July 4, 2017, Cisse announced his comeback to join the Swiss third-tier club Yverdon Sport. He went on to play for Vicenza in Italy and Panathinaikos Chicago in the United States before announcing his retirement for the second time in July 2021.
In addition to football, Cisse has also worked as a fashion designer and DJ, and in the field of acting, he has contributed wonderful acting skills in many movies such as "Taxi Express 4", "The Return of the King", and "As Long as the Sun Is Dancing". In 2023, Gibriel Cisse will also participate in the French version of "The Masked Singer", which can be described as versatile.
In an interview with Chinese media, when talking about the accident, Cisse said: "Zheng Zhi didn't mean it, it was just a simple injury in a football game, I hope Zheng Zhi is all right now, and I wish his family all the best, and I hope that one day if I can meet Zheng Zhi again, we can have a good chat about it, because there is really no grudge between each other." ”
Today, Cisse is a striker coach at the French club Auxerre, and the Auxerre club is also a club with a Chinese-funded background, which may also be the indissoluble bond between the French striker and China!