Zidane Is Only a Man After All
After fretting for a day about France’s lost last night (and almost a whole week after the defeat of England), I come to realize that Zidane is actually a perfect modern-world role model. This is of course is based on several factors:
- He came to France as a descent of Algerie immigrants. Life as an immigrant, even in a country that is lenient as France, is not an easy thing to do. Just ask any outcast that lives in your school / college / neighborhood. They usually, in the end, become the bigger person than people around them.
- He was once lives on the street of Marseilles where eye is always paid with eye and fist paid with fist. It’s a very harsh life living on the street but of course it also gave us the simplest glimpse of the simplicity of human life. And as for point 1, it’s not easy living on the street.
- He gave France hope. Okay, by World Cup 1998 and Euro Cup 2000 he’s not the captain of the national team (Didier Deschamp is if I’m not mistaken). However, he’s always at the heart of its achievement by supplying briliant pass and superb play. He also gives everything he got for his team by winning Serie A, La Liga, and Champions cup in which he always play the key role of the team.
- The famous head-butt.
The #1 and #2 gives a strong background of Zidane’s struggle to what he is now. This quality usually can be found on any modern role model you can name of. Gandhi, Elvis Presley (well not for his drug abuse anyway…), John Nash, and many many more.
The #3 is what propelled him to his stardom career but what actually makes him a perfect modern-life role model is #4, the head-butt incident. It shows that role model after all is only human and human are allowed to snap.
I know that there will be alot of people that don’t agree with my previous statement but nonetheless, Zidane is only human and human does indeed sometime experience their own moment of insanity. That what gave Zidane a human face, the ordinary common people face.
Plus, here’s some take on what makes Zidane lost his control and release the fury. You can read it here and here. Me my self would have snapped on that comment.
Thank goodness an “eye is always paid with eye and fist paid with fist” did not apply to Zidane’s head-butt.
I still retain my opinion on the whole situation, and I would comment further on this entry, but I know that my comment will have the possibility of being analysed due to certain aspects about me, so I’ll just keep it to myself for now.