To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEWhen your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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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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Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.
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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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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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Music was important. Football was the easy part.
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Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years. France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.
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Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
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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 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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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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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
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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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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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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 am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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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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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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It’s only natural to want to select your best players and there is no doubt for me that Paul Scholes is still in a class of his own. He’s almost untouchable in what he does. I never tire of watching him play.
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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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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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The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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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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Messi is the Mozart of football.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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