Nigel de Jong Is The New Zinedine Zidane

July 14th, 2010 | by: chris | View Comments

Well that sounds awfully wrong, doesn’t it? But it’s true, at least in one sense: Nigel’s taking over YouTube with his kung fu kick on Xabi Alonso’s xiphoid process. It’s garnering the same type of treatment that Zizou earned when he thrust his shiny dome into Marco Materazzi’s sternum.

The YouTuber variations are coming in slowly – it’s only been 3 days after all – but it at least seems everyone is in on the Street Fighter bit. Plus little girls are already copying his every move.

As we await the bulk of the internet’s creative genius to wow us with grainy tensecond videos, a couple of the earlier submissions (and the better Street Fighter edition above). Additions, as always, are welcomed.

Nigel de Jong’s mysterious training in youth:

Nigel defends Sparta:

And of course, the highlight reel from years gone by:

In about 3 weeks, Nigel will have a similar YouTube video to boast of. It must be good to be YouTube king.