Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born 23 June 1972), nicknamed "Zizou", is a French retired footballer and current manager of Real Madrid. He played as an attacking midfielder for the France national team, Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus and Real Madrid. Renowned for his elegance, vision, ball control and technique, Zidane was named the best European footballer of the past 50 years in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth23 June 1972
CityMarseille, France
CountryFrance
Before it was hard to talk about certain things, especially if, like me, you came from a difficult area or an immigrant background.
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored
It was an exceptional game, like we had in 2000 with Portugal and Italy, ... In these two matches we managed to reverse the trend, and we did it again.
think -- and I stress my words -- about the consequences of voting for a party that does not at all correspond to the values of France.
The sooner we find the net the better. We know that we must slot a fair number of goals to compensate for a possible away victory by the Swiss.
We had a long discussion. I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.
I would not have come back otherwise. I did not only do it so we would qualify but because this team has the players who are capable of achieving something.
Marseille cannot have any regrets about this match,
I still have six months or maybe a year (left). At the best I have a year and a half. I'm closer to the end than the beginning.
We are back to being the old Real Madrid. If we keep playing like this then I'm sure we'll win something.
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.