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6 unusual facts about Zinedine Zidane


Arcachon

On the other side of the Bassin d'Arcachon is Cap Ferret, a popular resort for celebrities including Zinedine Zidane and Jean Pierre Pernaut, who have holiday homes in the chic resort.

Isle of Wight Festival 2004

The mood was further soured when England ultimately lost 2-1, with a brace of last minute goals by Zinedine Zidane.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin.

Leadership development

Just as people are not all born with the ability or desire to play football (soccer) like Zinedine Zidane or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, people are not all born with the ability to lead.

Marseille turn

A number of famous footballers have been known to use it, including Nenad Marcetic, Zinedine Zidane, Alessandro Del Piero, Lionel Messi, Ronaldinho, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, Kaká and Ronaldo.

Travers Park

Among great soccer players, on March 3, 2008, Zinedine Zidane and Steven Gerrard visited the park as an Adidas-sponsored movement to advance soccer in the US, filming a section from the commercial string 'Dream Big'.


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2000–01 Juventus F.C. season

It was also Zinedine Zidane's last season with Juventus as he was sold for a world record fee to Real Madrid, but the Italian club compensated his loss with four new players during the summer, with Gianluigi Buffon and Lilian Thuram coming from Parma, whilst Pavel Nedvěd and Marcelo Salas came from Lazio.

Football in Berlin

France's Zinedine Zidane was sent off in his last-ever match, for headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi's chest in retaliation to verbal insults.

Juan José Narváez

Since arriving at the Madrid Youth academy, he became close friends with Enzo Fernández, the son of Zinedine Zidane.

Julian Uccello

In June 2009, Uccello began to be noticed by Canadian fans when he played the first half and scored a goal at BMO Field in a Zinedine Zidane charity game, called "Zidane & Friends All Star Match," in which world soccer veterans took on the Canadian All-Stars.

Mats Magnusson

He accepted an invitation from old club Benfica to take part in a charity match to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake, on 25 January 2010, which also coincided with the 68th birthday of club legend Eusébio: his team, Benfica All Stars, consisted of both retired and current Benfica players, which played "against" Zidane XI, a team consisting of players hand-picked by former French legend Zinedine Zidane.

Ottmar Hitzfeld

This time Borussia prevailed 3–1 in Olympic Stadium Munich against the team from northern Italy which featured Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps, and Christian Vieri amongst others.

Real, The Movie

The movie stars Raúl, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, David Beckham, Guti, and many other present and former figures from the Spanish Club.

Santiago Solari

After a poor first season, he became a regular for the Merengues albeit as a substitute; in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League final, in which he played the full 90 minutes, he was involved in the play that led to Zinedine Zidane's wonder strike against Bayer 04 Leverkusen, in an eventual 2–1 win.

Yeah Ghost

The album features vocals by ESKA (on "Mr McGee", "Medicine Man", "Sleeper", and "The Road"), Martha Tilston (on "Pop Art Blue"), Binki Shapiro (on "Swing" and "Ghost Symbol"), Rowdy Superstar (on "Sleeper"), and Binns himself (on "Everything Up (Zizou)", an homage to French footballer, Zinedine Zidane).


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