In honor of Zinedine Zidane’s new monument outside the Pompidou Centre in Paris, we bring you ten more somewhat less-than-glorious images from the beautiful game that need to be cast in bronze.
1. I’d love for future civilizations to dig this bad boy up:
2. And while we’re on the subject of great German goalkeepers, maybe they can put this next to it, if only as something for visiting Americans to deface:
3. He is all that is man:
4. And so is he. It’s a little blurry, but you get the idea:
5. Liverpool really should look into this one:
6. Surely there’s already one of this somewhere:
7. The degree of difficulty for this image of Rashidi Yekini is high, but the finished product would be well worth it:
8. Not all great soccer moments happen on the field:
9. Going back to the Zidane statue, if it’s violence they’re after:
10. But if they’re really trying to compose a monument to defeat, may I make a suggestion:
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