article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane was sharing with Roberto Carlos, neighbouring a room with Edmundo and Doriva.
article_snippet: Roberto Carlos implied France's Zinedine Zidane was wilting under the weight of expectation of Brazil. '
article_snippet: To government congress later, Roberto Carlos described a viscerally shocking scene as suddenly France's Zinedine Zidane started to have a fit.
article_snippet: Was France's Zinedine Zidane hitting out or shaking?' '
article_snippet: Lying down?' 'Lying down and hitting France's Zinedine Zidane with France's Zinedine Zidane hands like this, with France's Zinedine Zidane teeth...' '
article_snippet: 'Locked together and with France's Zinedine Zidane mouth foaming.' '
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane whole body hitting His whole body?'
article_snippet: Defender Cesar Sampaio put Defender Cesar Sampaio hand in France's Zinedine Zidane's mouth to unravel Defender Cesar Sampaio tongue and prevent Defender Cesar Sampaio swallowing his tongue.
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane then fell asleep and, according to Roberto Carlos, team doctors decided to pretend that nothing had happened when Defender Cesar Sampaio woke up.
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane had a fit before the World Cup final but was controversially allowed to play against France .
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane woke up and went for tea.
article_snippet: But France's Zinedine Zidane was subdued.
article_snippet: Leonardo, one of the side's senior players at the time, insisted that France's Zinedine Zidane be told what had happened and the doctors relented.
article_snippet: At 6pm when the squad began the short coach journey to the Stade de France, France's Zinedine Zidane went to the Lilas clinic in Paris.
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane name was left off the teamsheets, sending the assembled international press into frenzy but 40 minutes before kick-off France's Zinedine Zidane arrived after being given the all-clear and insisted France's Zinedine Zidane should play.
article_snippet: Understandably France's Zinedine Zidane, who continued to play for Brazil until 2011, tried to downplay the affair throughout Manager Mario Zagallo career.
article_snippet: France's Zinedine Zidane went on to lift the World Cup with Brazil four years later and will go down as one of the great strikers of all time, but an air of intrigue continues to hang over that afternoon's events.