A hush descends upon the boys standing in a neat semi-circle on a pitch at the Z5 sports complex in Aix-en-Provence. They are between six and eight years old and all play for La Castellane, the ...

To start our World Cup icons series, BBC Sport tells how Zinedine Zidane led a multi-cultural France team to 1998 glory. Back then they called him Yaz, the 10-year-old boy from the concrete high ...