the thing with zidane was he made it look so easy, and he had a lot to his game, he could skin 3 players if he wanted to, or open up play, amazing passer, etc. sometimes by taking 1 player out he had created so much space, he never had pace, but used his skill to make his opponents literally trip up over themselves because they had no clue what just happened.
messi uses ball control and pace, ronaldo uses tricks, but mostly all of his tricks include pace, by knocking the ball away from him, zidane used ball control and skill/tricks.