The former French international supposedly was the man behind France's original change of tactics.
Former France international Zinedine Zidane discussed the tactical plans of Les Bleus with Patrice Evra, Franck Ribery, Thierry Henry and William Gallas ahead of the World Cup clash with Mexico, according to a report in Liberation.Zidane supposedly urged the experienced France players to speak with national team coach Raymond Domenech in order to discuss the players' preferred formation for the match against Mexico and make some tactical changes.
The four convinced Domenech to play in a 4-4-2 formation against the Mexicans instead of in the usual 4-2-3-1 set-up. Additionally, Yoann Gourcuff and Sidney Govou would have been dropped in favour of Thierry Henry and Matthieu Valbuena.
However, Domenech opted to stay with his original tactics after finding out that Zidane was the man behind the tactical revolution, though Gourcuff was shown the door. France were eventually beaten 2-0 by Mexico in their second match of the group phase and need all results to go their way on matchday 3 if they are to make it to the first knockout round.
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