NOTEBOOK: ZIDANE HEROICS THRILL MINORITIES IN FRANCE.Byline: Daily News Wire Services France's winning team is as racially diverse as France's spontaneous demonstrators. Two of the goals were scored by the French team's top playmaker play·mak·er n. A player in a sport with goals, such as a guard in basketball, who initiates offensive plays. play Zinedine Zidane “Zidane” redirects here. For other uses, see Zidane (disambiguation). Zinedine Yazid Zidane (IPA: [ˌzineˈdin jaziːd ziˈdan]; born 23 June 1972), popularly nicknamed Zizou , whose North African North Africa A region of northern Africa generally considered to include the modern-day countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. North African adj. & n. Adj. 1. origins made two Algerian women who gave their names as Nadia and Farida proud to be among the victory celebrants on the Champs Elysees Sunday night. Gabriel Muller, a young black man who had watched the match in a bar in Montparnasse, said he came to the avenue because the bar had become too crowded. Soon, so was the Champs Elysees, a mile-long avenue of eight lanes that is the place to see and be seen. It was filled entirely with flag-waving pedestrians half an hour after the game ended at 11 p.m. And the 164-foot-high Arc de Triomphe Arc de Triomphe Largest triumphal arch in the world. A masterpiece of Romantic Classicism, it is one of the best-known monuments of Paris. It stands at the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, at the western terminus of the Champs-Élysées. was emblazoned with blue laser signs proclaiming, ``Thank you, Blues.'' Sorrow in Rio: On Copacabana beach in Rio, the giant stage had already been erected, with the festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. for Brazil's fifth World Cup victory celebration lined up. Thousands of fans, many wearing green and yellow for the national flag, gathered on the sand to watch the game, undeterred by the winter rain. But as day gave way to night, Waldir Alonso, one of those who had come to watch, fought off pessimism as France scored. With the last goal in the final seconds of the game, Alonso stared at the screen and fought back tears. ``Our party's over,'' said Alonso, 49. By the numbers: How big was this World Cup? The French organizing committee released some figures that show it was very big. Among the statistics, the CFO See Chief Financial Officer. said that France 98: Broadcast at least 5,760 hours of television coverage of matches, with a total worldwide audience of 37 billion, a 5 billion-viewer jump from 1994. The audience for the final was expected to be 1.7 billion. Employed 1,768 boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. to chase down balls that went out of bounds. Received 250 million hits on its official Internet site. Installed 1.2 million miles of fiber-optic cable for telephones, TVs and computers, enough to circle the Earth 50 times. Used 10,000 tables, 33,000 chairs and 35,000 hangers. Sold 2 million drinks in stadiums, everything from sodas to mineral water. |
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