Word: zizou
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Good for you, Zizou...
...Arab). Le Pen grumbled then, too, that the victors of 1998 were not "a real French team," but nobody cared: France had once again achieved the global greatness that had long eluded it on other fronts, and the architect of its triumph was a national treasure known as Zizou. But the continuing debate over the Zidane head-butt is a reminder that the harmony represented by the makeup of the French soccer team bears little resemblance to daily life in the French urban ghetto - of which the riots of late 2005 served as the harshest reminder...
...Whatever the words that provoked Zidane's last on-field head-butt, the rage it revealed may derive in no small part from the strain of being Zizou. He told an interviewer two years ago, "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. And, for me, the most important thing is that I still know who I am. Every day I think about where I come from...
...self-defeating reaction - especially at such a crucial time for his team and soon-to-be-terminated career. Especially given Zidane's comments earlier in the interview acknowledging neither he nor his teammates had experienced any problems with the Italians or Materazzi prior to the exchange that ended with Zizou's expulsion...
...much as the French love fashion, soccer took precedence last week in Paris. Even at the fall 2006 haute couture fashion shows, talk inevitably turned to Zinédine Zidane, or "Zizou," France's World Cup star. Some editors went so far as to sport les bleus--the team's cobalt blue jerseys--in his honor...