Back home in La Castellane, Zizou asked “not to go to PSG”

“Mom, take the picture, I can’t, there are too many people! “Like dozens of people, this little girl came this Friday morning to the foot of a tower in the city of Castellane, in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille, to admire the idol of an entire district, of a city, and even a country: Zinédine Zidane. But in front of this crowd of very great days, no chance for her, from the top of her forty meter, to immortalize this moment as rare as it is precious. His mother, who stayed on the floors of this tower, is finally the best placed to try to photograph the idol.

The prodigal son is back in his neighborhood for a project close to his heart: the inauguration of a digital medical center to facilitate access to care for the 7,000 inhabitants of this neighborhood who lost their last general practitioner there. two years old already. To the point of making a speech, he who “is not used to it, but who cares”. “I’m from Castellane, I grew up here with my parents. I love her, even though things have changed. Our heart is still there, even if we are gone. This fantastic project is going to improve the lives of people and the life of this neighborhood and that is the most important thing. ” He pursues :

It is not possible to allow inequalities in access to care to widen. I hope that this device can be deployed in all the neighborhoods that need it. »

An oh so important project for these territories that are too often forgotten. But if the cameras and the inhabitants are there, it’s good for “the greatest footballer of all time”. Some rush to give a phone to two young people, the best placed, thanks to the branches of a tree, and mothers ask journalists to take a photo or a video for their social networks.

“It’s reassuring to see that he hasn’t forgotten us”

“Film,” Hayden asks his nephew perched on his shoulders. “But I’m scared uncle,” replies the little one who prefers to cling to his shoulders. “We are here because it is Zidane, it is the idol of Marseille. It’s amazing to see it, it’s the first time in my life. It’s too good, it’s too much joy. I was able to film, take a picture of it, all I need is a dedication for my nephew, ”rejoices the 29-year-old young man, who came with his family.

“I’ve seen it two or three times when I was little. I’m not someone who runs behind the story, but frankly I’m too happy. He is known all over the world, and it is reassuring to see that he has not forgotten us. Thanks to him, it is a pride to say that we come from Castellane like Zidane, ”says Azed, 22.

Once the speeches were over, we had to push back the dozens of people waiting for a photo or an autograph to finally be able to unveil the inaugural plaque of the medical house. A few minutes later, it was the big brothers of the city who framed the moulon [le regroupement pour les non-amateurs de Motchus] for an impromptu autograph session. It was at this time that some residents took the opportunity to give him a nice reminder shot. “He mustn’t go to Paris,” says a young man.

For a few weeks, rumors have sent him to the bench of the Parisian club for the next season. “He was told not to go to PSG. Frankly, it should not, it would scratch his image. But frankly it’s affordable, I was able to take a photo and get an autograph,” said Ahmed, 33. And Hayden to abound: “If he goes to Paris, it would hurt too much. It would seriously piss me off. Azed, the youngest, would “not blame him. You can understand him, he has his reasons. A question of age surely.