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Your diary title does read - BREAKING - Zidane back in French National Team
Les Blues meant to play as TEAM. It's disrespectful for your teammates when you let them play the qualifying games for the 2006 World Cup. Return of Zidane, will cost a fellow teammate his position on the pitch. I respect his abilities and his honors as European and World Player of the Year. I also believe in a man's word to retire from the National Squad. It's odd to return. Flawed choice by coach who has been under much criticism.
~~~ 'Sapere aude'
For the record, I'm a supporter of the French side since the 1998 tournament - and had to feel rather bad about their 2002 World and 2004 European 'success'.
But, since France won both the UC-22 and UC-19 championships this year, I think afew's modification of that English saying might well stick in the coming years. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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Golden Boy Messi
He's extraordinary talented and all-round - individual action, making openings and passing for assists and a goal getter. His abilities are potentially in realms of world class player like Zinadine Zidane. Messi has signed long-term contract `til 2012 with Barcelona and played in yesterday's 9-0 romp over China's champions, scoring two goals. Watch for him coming season in Spain and CL games, has a professional mindset, also similar to Zidane.
I don't know any team in the world that can afford to let Zidane, Makelele and Thuram aside. So now, depending on the choices of Domenech, we're basically back for the qualification to the next World Cup.
But I don't know if it's such a good thing in the long run considering that we - French - will still have to learn to play without Zidane.
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