Zinedine Zidane said on Monday that France will head to Germany as frontrunners for the 2006 World Cup title. "Yes, we are going to Germany to win the World Cup," the Real Madrid playmaker told sports daily L'Equipe. "It is a wonderful and magnificent journey, that is to say and even to repeat it: we can win," the 1998 World Cup winner added. Zidane scored twice in the 3-0 win over Brazil in the 1998 final to give France their first World Cup title on home soil before helping Les Bleus to the Euro 2000 title. The 34-year-old midfielder retired from international football following France's Euro 2004 quarter-final exit, which was preceded by a group stage elimination from the World Cup finals in Korea and Japan two years earlier. However, the former Juventus player came out of international retirement to help France reach the Germany finals.
Zizou is the driving force for Les Bleus "I'll be 34 in Germany. When one has won the World Cup and lost it four years later, winning it back is an magnificent and imperious obligation," the France captain said. Zidane insisted no team would measure up to France in the finals, with the exception of Brazil, he noted. "If we are at 150 percent on D-Day, I don't see which country could trouble us apart from Brazil, obviously. "They are the only fearsome team as they have always been," he added. France were drawn to Group G alongside Switzerland, South Korea and Togo.
