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“It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.”

Source: Interview with Andrew Hussey, “ZZ top”, Observer Sport Monthly, 4 April 2004

Context Profiled during his Real Madrid years, he spoke of his father Smaïl, an Algerian Kabyle immigrant who worked as a warehouseman, often on night shifts, in Marseille.

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Zinedine ZidaneFrance / Algeria · b. 1972
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