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Marseille. "A Star Among the Unemployed": Zidane Always "a Model" in La Castellane, Her Childhood City

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Zinédine Zidane, a future breeder of the Bleus, is an idol in La Castellane. Reportage in the city of the northern districts of Marseilles where the Ballon d'or 1998 spent his childhood and where he kept ties. His former neighborhood remains gangreneeded by the drug traffic.

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The designation on Tuesday of the 1998 world champion as a team selector of the French team makes the inhabitants of the neighborhood where he was born happy. They want to salute the player and the coach to the already exceptional career.

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Zinédine Zidane, a future breeder of the Bleus, is an idol in La Castellane. Reportage in the city of the northern districts of Marseilles where the Ballon d'or 1998 spent his childhood and where he kept ties. His former neighborhood remains gangreneeded by the drug traffic.

It's a name that everyone knows. A familiar face for every resident of Castellane. Zinedine Zidane is the child of the neighborhood. And it's impossible not to tell. At every foot of a building, the old one...

Zinédine Zidane's appointment to the position of player of the men's football team in France arouses a strong expectation in her original neighbourhood, the Castellane, in Marseille, where the former player remains a major figure for the local youth.

After his childhood in Marseille and his youth in the south of France, the legendary footballer of the 1990s moved to a Madrid villa.

Before becoming a legend of French football and being known all over the world under the nickname ‘‘Zizou', Zinédine Zidane was simply Yazid for her loved ones. A name that still seems to have a special place in the life of the former World Champion 1998. This is in any case what one of her childhood friends who knew her well before the glory. In a long portrait dedicated to her young years, The Sunday Journal went to meet those who saw the futu…

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closermag.fr broke the news on Monday, July 27, 2026.
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