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Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends

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Zinedine Zidane
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 23
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Soccer Player
Marseille
France
Zinedine Yazid Zidane
Football
Playing
Friends
Everything
Achieved
Dues
Streets

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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.
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The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.
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It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.
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Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.
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Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He's magical.
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Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.
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If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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You rarely come across the complete footballer, but Scholes is as close to it as you can get. One of my regrets is that the opportunity to play alongside him never presented itself during my career.
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