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Mariel Soberon Pez Antonio Medina Grade: 7th Group: A Roll Number: 19

Friday, Septemeber 14 2012.

Zinedine Zidane
was born in June 23 1972. Is a retired French footballer who is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. Zidane played as an attacking midfielder, and was the leading figure of a generation of French players that won the 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship. He later participated to the 2004 European Championship where France finished in the top of their group, but they were eliminated by the eventual winner of the competition, Greece, in the quarter finals. After these disillusions, he briefly retired from international football but returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player. At club level Zidane won the La Liga and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A league championships with Juventus and an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned sides. Zidane was voted as FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions (1998, 2000 and 2003), a feat matched only by his former Real Madrid team mate Ronaldo, and also won the Ballon d'Or in 1998. Zidane retired from professional football after the 2006 World Cup. He currently holds the post of Real Madrid Director of Football, filling the role previously held by Jorge Valdano On 31 July 2012, Real Madrid announced that as soon as he completes management qualification, he will begin training to be a coach whilst at the same time coaching Real Madrids youth academy.

Early Life.
Zidane is of Algerian Kabyle Berber descent. His parents, Smal and Malika, emigrated to Paris from the village of Aguemoune in the Berber-speaking region of Kabylie in northern Algeria in 1953 before the start of the Algerian War. The family, which had settled in the city's tough northern districts of Barbs and Saint-Denis, found little work in the region, and in the mid1960s moved to the northern Marseille suburb of La Castellane. On 23 June

1972, Zidane was born there as the youngest of five siblings. His father Smal worked as a warehouseman at a department store, often on the night shift, while his mother was a housewife. The family lived a reasonably comfortable life by the standards of the neighborhood, which was notorious throughout Marseille for its high crime and unemployment rates. It was in La Castellane that Zidane had his earliest introduction to football, joining in at the age of five in football games that the neighborhood children played on the Place Tartane, an 80-by-12-yard plaza that served as the main square of the housing complex.