The Onze d'Or is an association football award given by French magazine Onze Mondial since 1976. The award honors the best player in Europe, with any player in a European league eligible. Since 1991,
Lionel Messi has won the award a record four times.
Zinedine Zidane has won the award three times.
Former Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger has won the award a record four times.
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the head coach of the France national team. Wi
Onze d'Or
…to have won the award on four occasions (2009–2012, 2018). Only two other players have won the Onze d'Or three times: Michel Platini (1983–1985) and Zinedine Zidane (1998, 2000–2001). At the 20th anniversary of the magazine in 1995, a Super Onze d'Or was chosen among the previous winners (1976–1995); French legend…
La Castellane, in the northwestern edge of Marseille, where Zidane was born in 1972
Zidane's Juventus jersey (center) at the Juventus Museum next to kits of (from left to right) Edgar Davids, Pavel Nedvěd, Roberto Baggio and Michel Platini
Zidane with teammate David Beckham in 2003