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.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEZidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.
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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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Everything I have achieved in football is due to playing football in the streets with my friends
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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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Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He’s magical.
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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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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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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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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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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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I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.
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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 can’t get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.
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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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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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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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