“Zidane dégouté” meme: meaning, origin and common card

What does the “Zidane dégouté” meme mean?

The picture conveys silent disappointment, the kind that is not spoken but read on a face. The card’s caption, “a father’s disappointment in his son”, sets the tone: not anger, but a heavy, almost affectionate weariness. People use it to react to a loved one’s poor performance, an absurd choice or a letdown of a result. The meme works because it says everything without a word: the look alone means “you shouldn’t have”. It also suits joking about your own failures.

Where does the “Zidane dégouté” meme come from?

The meme features Zinedine Zidane, the former French international footballer whose facial expressions have often fueled French-language internet memes. The image is captioned as a father’s disappointment in his son, so it fits any situation where someone lets down a close one. It circulates as a reaction in conversations and under posts, often with a line naming the blunder. Its strength is immediate readability: one face, one emotion, no explanation needed.

How to use the “Zidane dégouté” meme

• Reply with the image when a friend misses an obvious play.
• React to a disappointing sports result.
• Caption a relative’s blunder.
• Express your own disappointment with humor.

The “Zidane dégouté” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 1813
Rarity	Common
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3496
Recycle value	5 MemeCoins (15 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@matteouss

How to get the “Zidane dégouté” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Zidane dégouté comes out of the Memes FR pack as a common card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 5 MemeCoins.

The reprints of the “Zidane dégouté” card

The “Zidane dégouté” card was reprinted as Rare (No. 2,015) and Epic (No. 4,325). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was common. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

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