In the summer of 1996, 24-year-old Zinedine Yazid Zidane departed Girondins de Bordeaux for Juventus, but as he left the shores of France for the boisterous atmosphere of Turin, the Frenchman would have laughed hysterically if a stranger suggested he would be sharing a dressing room with Chelsea’s future manager.

Naturally bald, won multiple trophies together in the famous Bianconeri strip, yet Zidane and Antonio Conte now have more in common than they did as team-mates in the late 90s; the former Juventus midfielders have now gone from the most popular managers in their respective leagues to the most troubled and horrified.

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