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Zinedine Zidane was born on the 23rd of June 1972 in La Castellane, a neighbourhood in the 16th arrondissement of Marseille, France. He is the youngest of five siblings born to Algerian parents, Smail and Malika, who had immigrated from the village of Aguemoune in the Berber-speaking region of Kabylia in 1953.
Real Madrid paid a world-record fee of approximately €77.5 million (150 billion Italian lire) for Zidane in 2001. That fee remained the world record for the next eight years.
Zidane won the FIFA World Player of the Year award three times, in 1998-2000 and 2003. He also won the Ballon d'Or in 1998.
Zidane headbutted Marco Materazzi in the chest in the 110th minute of the 2006 World Cup final and was sent off. It later emerged that Materazzi had insulted Zidane's sister during the match. Zidane later said that twelve of his fourteen career red cards were the result of provocation.
Zidane became the only manager in history to win three consecutive UEFA Champions League finals (2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18). He also set the longest unbeaten run in Spanish football at 40 games and was the quickest manager in the history of the top five European leagues to win seven titles with a single club, achieving that feat in 19 months.
Italy won the 2006 World Cup final on penalties 5-3, with Zidane unable to participate in the shootout after his red card. The following day, FIFA awarded Zidane the Golden Ball as player of the tournament. Polls conducted in France immediately after the incident showed that 61 percent of French people said they had already forgiven him.