The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’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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Football boots are very technical and have lots of specific requirements.
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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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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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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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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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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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To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Music was important. Football was the easy part.
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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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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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Everything Iniesta does impresses me. He could even play as goalkeeper. He’s magical.
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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
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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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My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
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