Bob just sent me the link to this video of Zidane and three of his boys playing soccer in the yard.
Three thoughts:
1) These kids are going to be AMAZING soccer players.
2) Wouldn’t you have loved a dad like this when you were a kid? and
3) I wonder if Veronique ever [...]

So where were you one year ago today?
Yes, it was a year ago. The World Cup final. We were all watching as the game played itself out, with all the drama and trauma and excitement and violence that the promoters had hoped for/feared.
I was down in Oregon for [...]

When I was reading this article, I kept looking for some Indian version of “April Fools.” But it seems to be legit. Or at least to believe it’s legit. From “The Hindu:”
Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi would step on the same pitch for the first time since the 2006 World Cup Final [...]

You know when your chronically unemployed relative (we all have one, right?) finally lands a series of interviews? And you don’t want to say anything, because everybody’s been disappointed before, plus you don’t want to jinx it?
That’s how I’ve been with Vikash Dhorasoo. There have been rumors in the French and [...]

A confession: I am generally not bothered by footy stars behaving badly.
– David Trezeguet paying blackmail to avoid publication of questionable photos? I’m sympathetic.
– Nicolas Anelka’s attitude? There is so much more to the guy!
– Wayne Rooney’s prostitutes? Well, yeah, icky, but let’s not go overboard in condemning the [...]

I just can’t make myself write any more about transfers and transfer rumors today, so instead I thought I’d share a fun Zidane commercial.
(In the end he says, “Perfect. I’ll take them.”)
Quand Zidane met des lunettesUploaded by lefigaro