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Algeria: Long live Zidane

Algeria: Long live Zidane

French footballer Zinedine Zidane toured an earthquake-hit village east of Algierson a visit to the heart of rebel country in his troubled ancestral homeland. "Zizou", as he is known in France won a hero's welcome in Sidi Daoud village where a project he helped to fund has built a school and training centre following an earthquake in 2003. The 2003 earthquake in the Boumerdes region of northern Algeria killed 2,300 people, 100 of them in Sidi Daoud, and left at least 100,000 homeless. To shouts of "Long live Zidane", he shook hands with teachers, administrators and pupils. Zidane's Algerian parents moved to France in 1962 where he grew up. Although he rarely visited Algeria, he is seen by many Algerians as a symbol of hope in a country where the jobless rate among people under 30 is estimated to be about 70 percent.

Web Video | December 16, 2006Watch more videos from Web Video

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