Zizou credits his comeback to voice from very far

Now we know what prompted Zinedine Zidane’s return to international football — but we don’t know who. It was a ‘‘my...

By: Reuters
Paris | August 10, 2005 12:00 AM IST

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Now we know what prompted Zinedine Zidane’s return to international football — but we don’t know who. It was a ‘‘mysterious voice’’, says the French star.

‘‘One night, at three in the morning, I woke up suddenly and then I talked to someone’’, Zidane told French magazine France Football.

‘‘It’s somebody you will probably never meet. I can’t explain that encounter myself. That person really exists but it all comes from very far. And then, during the hours that followed, I took the decision to come back.’’

Zidane decided last week to resume playing for France to help them in their bid to win the World Cup next year. He’d retired from international football in 2004.

‘‘I was dumfounded before that force that was guiding my behaviour and I had something of a revelation’’, Zidane told the magazine.

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