Zinedine Zidane
Zidane in 2011, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Zinedine Yazid Zidane
Place of Birth: Marseille, France
Date of Birth: 23 June, 1972
Ethnicity: Algerian Kabyle Berber
Zinedine Zidane is a French professional footballer, coach, and manager. He played as an attacking midfielder, and was a playmaker. He is considered one of the best ever in the history of the game. Zinedine has played for Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus, and Real Madrid, and the French national team, and has coached and managed Real Madrid. He won the Ballon d’Or in 1998. He is known as “Zizou.”
Zinedine is of Kabyle Berber descent. His parents, Smaïl and Malika, emigrated to Paris from the village of Aguemoune in the Berber-speaking region of Kabylie in northern Algeria in 1953 before the start of the Algerian War.
Zinedine is married to Veronique Fernandez, who is of Spanish descent. The couple has four children, professional footballers Enzo Zidane, Luca Zidane, Théo Zidane, and Elyaz Zidane. Zinedine has described himself as “a non-practicing Muslim.”
No big deal, I’ve seen a blue eyed pale Berber before from Algeria. They are Caucasian people. Most are “Arab” looking though.
They are arab looking because they arent pure berebers, they probabbly have 20% or more of semitic blood.
DUMBASS.
are you blind? or stupid?
you are frustrated. your afrocentric theory has proved wrong. he is a living example of that.. your reactions is similar to what I see in many others forum.
“he look black” or mixed. lol
you cannot pin point any kind of black feature in him. he hardly look Italian.
Berber are not native from Africa but they are descends of muslim moor from Spain…
Moors from Spain!!!!! Moors were BLACK people as were all North Africans before white people came along! just as the “typical” American before the europeans were not white!!!!
No, Berbers dont descend from the Moors, they’re the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa. Yeah Moors were Black as Afrocentrists and our friend Fuzzybear keep saying..of course!
The indigenous inhabitants of North Africa,were called moors first.This happen long before the arab INVASION.Berber was just another derogatory name,that europeans attached to people who were not like them.
(Black as Afrocentrists and our friend Fuzzybear keep saying..of course!)
Wait,it wasn’t just me and Afrocentrists.It was all those White(authors and historians) that I provided you with,that stated the same thing.
Moors/Mauri were people from Mauritania. Berber is more a recent term. In Europe it’s popular “Maghrebian”
@Andrew
(Moors/Mauri were people from Mauritania)
Well yes that’s true,but it’s obvious that you didn’t bother to find out where Mauritania/Mauretania was in antiquity,the time in question.If you had,you would have seen it’s old location in North Africa:
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/North_Africa/Roman_Africa.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Mauretania_Tingitana_SPQR.png
http://explorethemed.com/images/maps/RomanAfrica2.jpg
ancient Mauri/Mauretania:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Roman_Africa.JPG
Moors were not necesarily blacks. Many Moors in Spain were light-skinned, even blondes. Being Moor was more relationed with Muslim religion in Spain not about race. Many Moors in literature of the time are described as light skinned, you can see pictures of them where they appeared with other Europeans and those Moors don´t look different to those Europeans. Many important Moorish historical figures were described as blonde(blonde, not light brown). so all not Moors were blacks.
@marjanel
Well what you said is true, not all moors were black. Seeing how they came to convert the infidels not replace them. They did this for centuries, so yes you’ll get blonde hair ones, either blood related or converts. As for those Moors not looking different from those Europeans , is probably because they were European converts.Now I don’t know of many Historical ones described as blond, although in 800 yrs, there would probably be some. To be honest I’m kinda bias, and focus mainly on the black ones or those I know to be black.
meant 700 yrs
no 800 is better
HE LOOKS LIKE A LIGHT-SKINNED BLACK MAN!
:’DDDDDDDDDDD
sure…
yeah you’re clearly blind as fuck
100% White Berber.
he does not look arab, that’s for sure he could easily pass for European perhaps eastern European would be befitting to his appearance but north Africans are still white so his ethnicity isn’t an immense shock
he’s Berber, different from Arab
I’m aware, but a lot of berber’s could easily pass for arab hence why I said he doesn’t look it, then I said north Africans meaning arabs and berbers are still white so it’s not that big a shock
A lot of North Africans are Berber and Arab mix. A lot look more Arabic then anything else. He happens to be an exception. Remember, barbarians invaded north Africa. So their blood is in a lot of people. But Berbers and ARabs are not European for you “ignoramuses” out their. Arabs are dark people.
@apachi74
I am well aware arabs and berbers aren’t European and I don’t appreciate being called an ignoramus for merely pointing out that he could pass for a European from his appearance thank you very much. arabs and berbers do carry similar genetics to Europeans as they’re still white Caucasians, hence why I said his appearance isn’t an immense shock, not to mention Europeans did colonise parts of north Africa and would have mixed respectively. as for “arabs are dark people” that is not necessarily true, many arabs have light skin and some even possess fair skin which is common in Europe not to mention light hair and eyes can be found amongst them too. some arabs are dark but in general they are still white Caucasians.
North Africans are all mixed with various ethnic groups from centuries of invasions. Amazigh (Berbers) are indigenous to North Africa since recorded history. Their Y dna originates in East Africa not the Caucasus. The barbarian rule lasted 300 years during the B.C. However during the Barbary slave trade there were 1.25 million Europeans enslaved. I’ve seen many blonde haired,blue eyed Kabyles yet still having some “African” features. Yo me they remind me of Louisiana Creoles or “high yella” . Really look at their President.
He does look arabic in my opinion and arabs are not dark they are tan i’ve never seen a black arab tbh i mostly see pale arabs or tan, my dad is from morocco and he has pale skin and blue eyes so i know what i am talking about