In our impression, the movement of The Marseille Slalom was invented by Zidane, but some people may wonder why Zidane did not play in Marseille, nor was he born in Marseille, so why is this action called Marseille Slalom. The reason is that this action was actually the original of Zidane's idol Uruguayan legend Francescoli, who once played for Ligue 1 giants Marseille. Zidane was also affected after watching his ball that year, forming his own flowing style.
Today we will introduce Zidane's idol, Uruguayan football prince Francisco, Enzo Franciscoli was born in 1961 in Montevidea, the capital of Uruguay, this thin teenager, from an early age has an unparalleled talent for football. Before his birth, Uruguay had already won the World Cup twice, especially the 1950 World Cup, when Uruguay won the victory over Brazil in a reversal at the newly built Maracanã Stadium, which made the 200,000 Brazilian fans desperate, and July 16 became Brazil's national disaster day. But that day inspired many Uruguayan teenagers to embark on the road to football, and Francisco Rio is one of them.
It is said that At that time, Francisco Li belonged to the supernova level, and in the middle school, Penarol and River Plate two clubs came to want to sign him, but when he saw FrancescoLi's small body, he hesitated, how thin like a monkey, can he play professional football? So he didn't sign with Francescoli, but Francescoli said he didn't sign because he was young and wanted to finish high school before he planned to play football. After graduating from high school, 18-year-old Francisco Joined Montevideo Rangers, where he played three seasons, scoring 20 goals for the team. He even chewed gum when he was playing, and his calm and dashing style of play was called a prince by his teammates at the time. At the 1981 World Youth Championships, Franciscoli played for the Uruguayan youth team, scoring a quarter and being eliminated by Romania, but performing well, so in 1982 Francescoli was selected for the Uruguayan national team.
River Plate, who had observed Francescoli for years, finally made a move in early 1983, and they signed the genius for $310,000. At that time, River Plate was in a low period, it was not a strong team in Argentina, and Francescoli's first season was more about integrating into the team, or looking for confidence.
The 1983 Copa America came just in time, when Francisco Scoli led Uruguay all the way to the final, and they faced Brazil, which was a home-and-away format. Uruguay beat Brazil 2-0 at home and drew 1-1 away from home, Uruguay won the Copa America for the twelfth time and the 22-year-old Francisco Scorley won the Copa America MVP. He has since become better at River Plate, scoring 24 goals in the league in his second season, earning the titles of Top Scorer in the Argentine First Division and Best Young Player in South America.
In 1986, Francescoli celebrated the most important year of his life, and in the final round of the league, he scored twice, helping River Plate to a 5-4 victory over his opponents to win the coveted league title, and he was once again awarded the title of top scorer. With such a good mood, the Uruguayan prince embarked on the stage of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. At that time, he had become a spokesperson for puma, just like Maradona.
However, the Uruguayan team in '86 and Francescoli's dashing style of play were completely incompatible, and they were the dirtiest team in football at that time, and it is said that the promotion to the World Cup finals was based on punches and kicks, malicious fouls. In the World Cup, Uruguay's Batista set a record for receiving a red card in the opening 56 seconds of the group match against Scotland. In the end, Uruguay won two draws and an embarrassing 1-6 defeat in the group stage, which was not due to West Germany, but to the more physical Danish team. Surprisingly, they actually became the fourth best group and advanced to the knockout rounds. However, as the worst team in the round of 16, they faced Argentina, who owned Maradona, in the quarter-finals, and eventually lost 0-1.
After the World Cup, Francisco, who had already made a name for himself in South America, decided to go to Europe, choosing the unknown Ligue 1 team Paris Athletic. He was joined by West German star Litbalski and France international Fernandez. Although Francescoli did his best to score 14 goals in the league, Atlético De Paris, with limited strength, only ranked 13th in the league.
In the 1987 Copa America, Uruguay regrouped and ushered in a chance to prove themselves, their biggest goal is to avenge the World Cup elimination of their Argentina team, in the semi-finals, Franciscoli returned to his former home monumental stadium, where Uruguay defeated world cup champions Argentina 1-0 to advance to the final, in the final, they defeated Chile, defended the Copa America, Francescoli became a veritable king of South America.
In the 87-88 season, Francescoli, who returned to France, suddenly found that his club had changed its name, and the owner of Atlético de Paris renamed the club Athletic Matera. Matra is a well-known Industrial Enterprise in France, involving automobiles, military industry and other fields, that season, the team achieved an unprecedented seventh place in the league, which made the boss overjoyed. But Francisco's performance also piqued the interest of Serie A giants Juventus, but Francisco Scorley rejected the transfer after much deliberation.
However, gold dollar football will always meet richer people, in the 88-89 season, Matera Athletic will be relegated in Ligue 1, and there is another French tycoon Marseille boss Tabi in that season, his team after three years of building, has become a Ligue 1 champion, so in the summer of 1989, he gave Francescoli an unavoidable preferential treatment, Francisco Coli also successfully put on the Marseille team's No. 10 jersey, that season, he scored 11 goals for Marseille, Helped the team defend their league title, but in the Champions League semi-finals, Marseille was eliminated by Benfica for scoring away goals.
In that season in Marseille, Francescoli, who had an elegant style of play, also captured the heart of a young man who was still playing in the Cannes B team at the time, he was Zidane, it is said that Zidane would run to the Marseille training ground to watch Franciscoli train, and from Francescoli, Zidane learned a lot, Francisco Li often used to pull the ball when playing in Marseille turned around, and was later carried forward by Zidane, and was named Marseille Boomerang.