Almost a prophet in his country. Here is how we can qualify Zinedine Zidane for football fans given his legacy with France 98 in particular. However, Zizou has not lived in France since 1996 and his departure for Turin. Installed in Madrid where he met the journalist Frédéric Hermel who had become his friend, Zidane told him that he could not see himself one day living in Marseille… unlike in Paris.
Zinedine Zidane is a local child who has never worn the jersey of theABOUT. And yet, the native of Marseille was close to joining the Marseille club in 1992… before the Girondins de Bordeaux does not derail the operation as Zizou revealed it in an interview with The Team in June 2022 as part of its 50th anniversary. “ OM was on me. I also had this possibility. But we go to the Girondins of Rolland Courbis, who had also taken Éric Guérit and Jean-François Daniel from AS Cannes.”
“If I went back to France, I could live in Paris, but not in Marseille”
From, Zinedine Zidane settled in Turin, then Madrid where he still lives. However, after leaving Marseille for Cannes during his teenage years, the world champion admitted to Frédéric Hermela confession transcribed by the journalist in the biography of the French football idol published in 2019, that he would not be able to set foot in the Marseille city again to settle there for the long term. “ If I went back to France, I could live in Paris, but not in Marseille.”
“People’s love is too great, their passion too overwhelming”
Idol of the city, Zinedine Zidane is so loved that he is one day expected by many supporters of theABOUT in order to have a possible role in the club. Which might not happen given the somewhat overbearing passion towards him in the city of Marseille. “If it were only my loved ones it would be simple but there, at home, the love of the people is too great, their passion too overwhelming. It would be stifling.”
