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.
ZINEDINE ZIDANEIt’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 one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
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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’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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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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Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
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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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A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
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Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
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When your own fans whistle and jeer, then you have a big problem.
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All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class.
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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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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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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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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 have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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