Zidane After Football
I’m guessing this is one of those articles where the translation didn’t quite travel the entire distance. From AP:
“Zidane to open health food factory in Bangladesh”
Hmm. That doesn’t sound like Zidane.
Read a little further, and you’ll see that “health food factory” isn’t quite referring to the same thing as here in the states. It’s not granola and sprouts, shipped to the US so rich Americans can buy them at Whole Foods. It’s actually a “nonprofit plant that produces cheap, nutritious yogurt.”
Something that actually could benefit the locals? That sounds a bit more like our Zizou.
And Zidane isn’t taking his savings and “opening a factory.” The factory will actually be operated by the French company Danone (Dannon) and by Grameen Bank — the micro-finance bank that was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this year. Zidane will “hit the pitch with young Bangladeshi soccer players and preside over the opening of [the]…factory…”
It all makes a little more sense now.
Gian Luca: My aren’t we cynical this morning. Might I prescribe some “cheap, nutritious yogurt.”
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United States
He did. Here’s a picture in one of our daily newspapers: http://www.ittefaq.com/get.php?d=06/11/09/w/n_zvkvmm
Also see: http://sport.indiatimes.com/Zidane_delights_Bangladeshi_villagers/articleshow/354067.cms
More: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/374345.cms
The whole thing is so unimaginable to me. I’ve watched so many Abahani-Mohameddan games as I grew up in Bangladesh, and I just can’t picture him playing on either side, LOL.
P.S. I’m a hardcore Italy fan
, but consider this a great honor for our country.
Bangladeshi, even Italy fans are welcome here. Just don’t dis Zizou, or we cannot be friends.
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United States
Uh oh:
http://www.eurosport.com/football/asian-cup-qualifiers/2006/sport_sto1004588.shtml
“I am not interested in playing here, but yes, I am interested in training the Bangladeshi team.”
It’d be a big waste of time for Zidane, LOL. Not that we can afford him anyway…
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A nice tax write-off for him and the big corporations behind it.