July 10, 2006
Goodbye, Zizou
I'm sure everyone knows this story by now, but I'm going to inflict it on you one last time. Once upon a time, there was a child born into an Algerian/French family, in a poor part of Marseille. He grew up to be a muslim, though he describes himself as "non-practising". He turned out to be pretty good at football, and after a few years in the French league, moved to Italian giants Juventus, then got bought for €66,000,000 by Real Madrid. For France, he played over 100 games, and scored two decisive goals in a World Cup final, against no lesser team than Brazil. 3 times he was elected as FIFA's world player of the year. But as he retires from football (his final game was today) he gave the world something much less impressive to remember him by.
It's a real tragedy, but this is now Zidane's legacy. What a terrible end to a great career. Football fans across the world will miss this great talent, I'm sure.
Posted by James at 01:01
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