Izmedju ostalog:
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Eight years ago, when the peerless Zinedine Zidane led France to a historic World Cup triumph on home soil, Les Bleus were held up as a metaphor for a harmonious, multicultural French society.
There was Zidane, the maestro, pulling the strings at the heart of the team. He was the midfield genius of Algerian extraction who grew up in the tough streets of Marseilles, the man whose two goals in the final set up the 3-0 win over Brazil.
There was Patrick Vieira born in Dakar, Senegal; Lilian Thuram, from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe; Marcel Desailly, whose family origins were in Ghana; midfielder Youri Djorkaeff, of Armenian antecedents; and the Basque defender Bixente Lizarazu. There were the black strikers Thierry Henry and Sylvain Wiltord, and the Argentine-born David Trezeguet.
There was Zidane, the maestro, pulling the strings at the heart of the team. He was the midfield genius of Algerian extraction who grew up in the tough streets of Marseilles, the man whose two goals in the final set up the 3-0 win over Brazil.
There was Patrick Vieira born in Dakar, Senegal; Lilian Thuram, from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe; Marcel Desailly, whose family origins were in Ghana; midfielder Youri Djorkaeff, of Armenian antecedents; and the Basque defender Bixente Lizarazu. There were the black strikers Thierry Henry and Sylvain Wiltord, and the Argentine-born David Trezeguet.
