Soccer Empire : the World Cup and the Future of France.

When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup finals, Zidane stunned the country by ending his spectacular career with an assault on an Italian pla...

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Main Author: Dubois, Laurent
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Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
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