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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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Zinedine Zidane
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 23
Association Football Manager
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Marseille
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Zinedine Yazid Zidane
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