Remarks at The Visit of Zinedine Zidane in Indonesia

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REMARKS
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
AT THE VISIT OF FORMER INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER,
ZINADINE ZIDANE’S IN INDONESIA
GAZEBO PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
6 JULY 2007


Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are honoured and very pleased to have your visit today especially a great man Mr. Zidane. You are very famous here in Indonesia. You have a lot of fans here who admire you. So once again, I would like you welcome you all to Jakarta, Indonesia.

I do hope that you with your visit will increase your understanding on Indonesia and I have to be thankfull also that you are visiting here with a great mission, great task for humanity, for culture, and for the children.

A lot of your friends in Indonesia want to know more about you that why in this fine occation, I would like to ask you to share your views, your messages to us to the Indonesia Football Association to young generation the soccer players who are present with us also today. And we will learn from you a lot and hopefully by listening to your advice, Mr. Zidane, we could do better in promoting to the performance of our football team, our national team.

I congratulate you for your many achievements so far, you are player of the year of many times, holder of golden pearl in 2006 World Cup and many other achievements. We are very proud of you, Mr. Zidane. And I do hope that we could continue our friendship and cooperation in the future.

So I would like to give the floor to you to share your views, your works, you thoughts on many things specially on improving the quality, the performance of football most part your sport in Indonesia.


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