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Jul 2020
9m 33s

Zinedine Zidane

BLUE WIRE
About this episode
Imagine being a national hero, one of the greatest athletes to ever come around in the history of your entire sport. Imagine winning just about every single trophy you could possibly win over the course of a career that stretched almost twenty years. Now imagine that, at the end of it, one angry, ugly reaction became your most memorable legacy. That’s what happened to Zinedine Zidane. But the headbutt heard round the world wasn’t the end of his story, either.

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