Who's the boss, Zinedine?By Graham Hunter Tuesday, April 20, 1999 http://www.geocities.com/juventusfootball/news/archived99/042099b.htmJuventus owner Giovanni Agnelli has delivered an astoundinginsult to Zinedine Zidane, his team's best player, on theeve of their delicately-balanced Champions Leaguesemi-final against Manchester United. The Fiat magnate has goaded FIFA's World Player of the Yearby accusing him of being hen-pecked by his wife Veroniqueand allowing her to bully him into leaving Juventus.Zidane's 15 million signature is being sought by ManchesterUnited, Marseille and Real Madrid after the midfielderadmitted last week that his wife wanted to quit Turin.Agnelli said yesterday: 'Zidane is not suffering fromhomesickness, he is suffering from being under the thumb ofhis wife. After what he said last week, I went up to himand demanded to know who wore the trousers in his house.'He could only say to me that because they now have twosons it is his wife who is the boss. Of course Juventuswould like to keep Zidane at this club but it is now clearthat his wife is a real problem. Also, I have no authorityover her.' Agnelli's broadside was the second personal attack onZidane in two days. Juve director Luciano Moggi deliveredthe first, saying: 'Luckily, we didn't sign a contract withZidane's wife. We signed it with him.' But Agnelli's very public slap in the face for Zidane insuch a traditional and macho Latin society as this willsend shock waves through the Juventus squad.Zidane, who was United's tormentor in the first leg and canturn a game single-handedly, is a quiet, modest man whosefamily happiness is of vital importance, particularly ashis wife gave up a successful career as a classical dancerto raise their children. United's chance of signing him seems slight as Veroniquewishes to move to either Spain or the south of France butthey, along with his other suitors, are bound to be amazedthat such a prized commodity should be treated with suchdisdain. Whether or not Agnelli's words prove to be a banana skin byadversely affecting Juventus's performance tomorrow nightremains to be seen. At least it affords United manager Alex Ferguson and hisplayers the chance to stay out of the limelight when theyarrive here - and it gives the impression of turmoil withinthe Juventus camp. But Agnelli did not stop there. Asked if Zidane would be inTurin next season, he added: 'I did not say that.'

Zizou tophttp://football.guardian.co.uk/Euro2000/Story/0,,338871,00.html If his team wins the European championship tonight, this immigrant's son from a Marseille housing estate is set to be his country's national hero - for a second time in two years. Yet he's more than just a footballing icon. His is the face of a new, multi-cultural France.Andrew AnthonySunday July 2, 2000The ObserverThere is a poster currently decorating the walls of many European towns, particularly in France, that shows a rather grey and grim council-type flat. The legend across the image, which promotes Adidas, says simply: 'Everybody comes from somewhere'. The undesirable apartment in the photo was once inhabited by Zinedine Yazid Zidane, or 'Zizou' as he is known in Italy and France, very possibly the finest football player on the planet.Today Zidane, already a world champion, will attempt to lead France to victory in the final of the European Championship. Having turned 28 just over a week ago, the French midfielder is in his prime and is firmly in the process of establishing his name alongside other world all-time greats such as Puskas, Pele, Cruyff, Platini and Maradona.A sportsman of uncharacteristic humility, Zidane tends to be embarrassed by those sorts of comparisons. Although hugely ambitious, his drive to get ahead has been tempered by a strong awareness of where he's come from. The bleak poster home was located in La Castellane, a run-down suburb in the Arab quarter of Marseilles, where Zidane lived with his Algerian parents, Smail and Malika, and their three other French-born sons, Jamel, Farid and Nourredine, and sister, Lila. Zidane moved his parents to a sumptuous villa soon after becoming wealthy. Of his father, he once said: 'He has been my guide in life. He has worked hard for very little return, but for him life is still about human relationships rather than money.'Often described as a no-go area, owing to the fear it inspires in the town's more conservative citizens, La Castellane is really a no-leave district. There are few opportunities for its largely North African-origin population to get out and make their mark. Which is why Zidane enjoys unparalleled cult status in the high-rise blocks that surround the old Mediterranean port.The footballer acknowledged the support a while back by paying for the clubhouse for a local football side, the Association des Jeunes de la Nouvelle Vague. If his constituency is La Castellane, his rule nevertheless extends right across France. The two goals he scored in the 1998 World Cup final against Brazil guaranteed him a special place in the hearts of his countrymen. That game - in which, to the disgust of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, France fielded a team from various ethnic backgrounds - also served to usher in a sense of a new multi-cultural France. And at its creative centre was Zidane, the son of an Algerian supermarket worker. After the match, his image was projected on to the Arc de Triomphe with the message: 'Merci Zizou.'But it nearly didn't happen like that. Zidane was sent off in the qualifying rounds of France 98 for stamping on the captain of the Saudi Arabian team. Doubters immediately turned to that old saw about being able to take the boy out of the ghetto but not the ghetto out of the boy.

It was a curious criticism because very often Zidane had been accused of appearing too cold and controlled. In fact, Zidane has long possessed an unlikely combination of street-toughness and a Zen-like calm. Jean Varraud, the Cannes scout who first spotted Zizou playing for his boys club, Septemes, recalls the promising teenager quietly walking across the pitch to head-butt an opponent.'I immediately saw this boy would become a great player,' recalls Varraud. 'He had an exceptional speed of foot that I've never seen before or since. Also he had this warrior side that you find in kids from underprivileged neighbourhoods. He was hungry.'One story has it that a director at Cannes was furious with Varraud for bringing the 16-year-old Zidane to the club. 'What are you thinking of?' he is supposed to have asked. 'Putting an Arab in the team? Are you mad?' But it was another Cannes director, Jean-Claude Elineau, who invited the youngster to leave the dormitory he shared with 20 other trainees and to come and stay with him and his family. Zidane later said that it was living with the Elineaus that he 'found equilibrium'.In school, according to his mother, he had been 'a bit distracted'. He practised judo and messed around on a skateboard but football was always his obsession. He used to watch games on TV and felt a magical exhilaration. 'I had an impression of another world, a world of dreams. I couldn't imagine one day it would be mine.'At Cannes he met his wife, Véronique, a dancer. Together now for more than 10 years, they have two boys, Enzo and Luca, names that have not entirely pleased the more militant Muslims among the player's hometown fans (Zidane see himself as a Muslim but does not practise the faith).A French sports journalist who remembers Zidane at Cannes describes him then as being 'very lean but with more hair'. A tall, well-built man today, with noble poise and handsomely genial features, Zidane is no friend of the over-head camera. From above, you can see the monkish bald patch that adds years to the already mature-looking man on view from the pitch. In an age of saturation marketing and total image, Zidane's alopecia may possibly have meant that he is lagging behind in the superstar stakes in comparison to, say, the tonsorially blessed (if shaven) David Beckham.Not that he would be concerned with such matters. Rather he sees himself, in the words of one French journalist who knows him, as a 'craftsman of football'. Certainly, while learning his trade at Cannes, he would not even have hallucinated thoughts of fame and riches. He was overjoyed to receive a L500 bonus on making his first-team debut one month short of his seventeenth birthday in 1989. He immediately sent the money to his parents. A year later he was given a red Renault Clio by the Cannes president and doubtless confusing it for a sports car, spent his leisure hours cruising up and down the Croisette.From Cannes he was transferred to Bordeaux in 1992 and made his debut for France two years later. He scored twice in that game and went on to be voted the young French player of the year. In 1996 it was time to move again, but this time abroad to Italy.

The whole package has left him indispensable to France. 'If he is not there,' said Aime Jacquet, the French manager during the World Cup, 'the team is not the same.'One of the ways that it is not the same is that it also tends not to include Zidane's great friend Christophe Dugarry. According to observers of the French national side, Zidane's influence rivals that of Didier Deschamps, the captain, and it said that if they do not rate a player, he does not make it into the team. Equally, many feel that Dugarry would not have made it into the World Cup squad in 98 without the bond he has formed with Zidane.Coming into the tournament, some wondered if Zidane, who admits to an almost poetic sensitivity, might have been adversely affected by the manner in which Juve needlessly lost the Italian championship on the last day. He returned to Marseilles for a while to recharge his batteries and to attempt to forget the Italian campaign. 'I tried to make myself feel better by telling myself that soccer is just a sport,' he said. 'However, this technique did not work.'Unusually for a professional footballer, Zidane is still boyishly in love with the game. Following a Juventus fixture on Sunday afternoons the whole team goes to a restaurant in Turin to unwind together. In Italy the the evening match is televised. As the rest of the players chat, Zidane will sit staring at the TV, the kid from La Castellane entranced by a game that no one else can play as well as him. Over last few days I got a little bit obssesed about Zidane-Deschamps friendship and found some nice comments about Zizou made by Didier and Lippi. Here they are:His former teammate Didier Deschamps, longtime captain of France, said: "Zidane achieves on the field what everyone dreams of doing just once. If I had trained day and night I would never have got there.""Talent"The best tribute to Zidane's career and character was probably made by Italy coach Marcello Lippi, who worked with him at Juventus from 1996-99. "When I saw him train for the first time, I told him, 'Don't worry about your place in the starting eleven - someone with your talent will never be on the bench here, or anywhere else for that matter'.""Cut above"Lippi's comments were echoed by Didier Deschamps, Zidane's captain when France won the World Cup on home soil. "I warned them but they did not believe me - after two training sessions, though, they understood that this player was a cut above. Italians enjoyed pulling the Froggies' legs, and that's why we refused to lose to them in 1998 [France defeated Italy on penalties in the quarter-finals] and 2000 [the UEFA European Championship final, won by a golden goal].""I was amazed at just how good he was with the ball at his feet," says Deschamps. "In training, I’d see him work on tricks that I’d never seen before. He simply plays the game on a different plane to everybody else, and I loved playing with him, for the simple reason that it was often thanks to him that I finished on the winning side."As Didier Deschamps put it so well, “Zidane can imitate anyone, but no one can imitate Zidane”.

zizou and lippi

Zidane can imitate anyone, but no one can imitate Zidane - soooo--------- right you are!

呵呵，dim喜欢英文旧闻，不如贴到天涯的粉丝贴里。我正在那里回顾1996年。

又是英语@_@偶只看懂了八楼的图,他咋跟里皮那么要好

里皮是他的恩师，当然好了！

对啊，我也很感激里皮栽培他啊。不知道那图是什么时候拍的

再贴1张你就看出来了

哦，汗！谁知道里皮当年为什么跑到国米一年？我记得那个赛季Zizou好像挺不顺的

里皮这老头还是挺帅的，一头漂亮的银发。

有时候会想，要是齐祖从没去过意大利踢球就好了，这样他就听不懂意大利语……

骂人的话可是很容易就懂的，更何况法文意大利文都是拉丁语系不过，我还是觉得他在意大利受益良多

howling zebra?

尤文的图我都放这儿吧

以前咱们在齐吧贴的：http://post.baidu.com/f?kz=137439419

一直想把那个贴搬来这儿放着。我的是ＧＥＴＴＹ的，要你有空能加个“解说”就更好了。

解说我可不行…… --b等我从青岛回来再找找，应该还有几张的