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Football: Riches offered by club football can't buy satisfaction of winning the World Cup
It's still the highest honour despite lucrative national leagues and Champions League
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Former French player Zinedine Zidane (holding trophy), with team-mates (from left) Bernard Diomede, Robert Pires, Bixente Lizarazu and Marcel Desailly, said winning the 1998 World Cup is "the most beautiful thing" to happen to him.
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SINGAPORE - His latest Champions League triumph is one of more than 100 team and individual medals, trophies and other accolades that fill his burgeoning cabinet, testament to his greatness as a footballer then and a manager now.
Other than the four Champions League gongs, Zinedine Zidane has won two Serie A and two LaLiga titles, the 2000 European Championship and the 1998 Ballon d'Or.
