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Originally posted by Plump Funk sorry to be the one who breaks it to you guys http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foo...als/3548572.stm one of the best players to ever kick a ball Zinedine Zidane retires from international football, i guess its after the conflict between him and Henry and after blaming each other for losing the euro.

No its because he is old

lilian thuram also retired,Lets see if the next generation of french players will miss these guys alot

Zidane has won everything in football that you can win with your national team so i don't see a point in him playing anymoore..

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How in gods name can henry even consider saying anything about zidanes performance in euro 04. Henry was the biggest disappointment of the whole tournament. Whereas Zidane deliverd the goods.

As for his reasons for retiring i'm sure it's due to his age.

I don't know what Henry said but he was poor himself at Euro 04.

Zidane will be 34 going into the next world cup so you can see why he made this decision. IMO the best player in the world over the last ten years.