"I owe him everything."
So speaks of his wife of twenty years Zinedine Zidane, world champion, Europe and now ex-coach of the prestigious Real Madrid.
It was on the occasion of the latter's departure from the Spanish club that
Paris Match
devoted its front page to the Zidane couple.
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In the columns of the magazine, we thus learn that the discreet and unknown wife of the footballer would have confessed: "If I had known that he was going to become such a star, I do not know if I would have married him".
In other words: Véronique had to deal with her husband's celebrity.
Véronique and Zinedine met in a home for young workers in 1989 before uniting five years later, when Zinedine took his first steps in the tricolor jersey.
For twenty-four years, their couple has remained an exception in the football world, the life of Véronique Zidane resembling more that of an expatriate woman rather than that of Victoria Beckham in the 2000s.
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“School first, football later”
No front-row, social evenings, or compulsive shopping sessions broadcast on social networks... Véronique Zidane is an anti-WAG (for "
wives and girlfriends"
of athletes).
Because to light and glitter, the Frenchwoman of Andalusian origin prefers the shade and discretion of her Madrid house in Parque del Conde de Orgaz, the local Neuilly.
Not the most imposing residence in the neighborhood, but an ultra-protected cocoon.
A nest where, the one who gave up dancing to devote herself to her couple, would reign supreme and ensure that their boys, Enzo, 23, Luca, 20, Théo, 16, and Elyaz, 12, follow well their private lessons after school.
Because if they want to follow a sporting career, like their father, the boys had to or must pass their baccalaureate before.
“School first, football after”, would repeat the mother.
A woman of influence
"They seem very much in love, always very attentive to each other", tells
Paris Match
the director of the yoga center where the couple takes lessons.
A love, a confidence, an influence and a devotion which would make the recipe for the success of Zinédine Zidane.
And for good reason: if "Zizou" signed in 2001 as a player at Real Madrid for 75 million euros, the Spanish press did not headline about him, but about his wife: "The new boss of Real".
Rumors at the time were that the wife was behind the negotiation of her husband's transfer, the biggest in history at this time.
In other words, a female player who has a sense of arbitration.
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