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To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.

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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
Incredible
Whole
Country
Recognised
Massive

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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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It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.
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Messi is the Mozart of football.
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If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is
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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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Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.
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Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them.
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I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
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I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
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Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.
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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 have decided to come back for Les Bleus.
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It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.
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Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.
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In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.
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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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