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Does Zidane drink? Kronenbourg think so.

August 23rd, 2006 Zeid Nasser (Admin)

Zidane Kronenbourg

To begin with, I typically never blog about alcohol advertising.

Our blog is, after all, called Ad Blog Arabia

However, I will make one or two exceptions a year, and this is one of them.

Just look at this Kronenbourg Beer advertisement. If you were living on the face of this earth on 9 July, then you will have witnessed the now famous ‘Zidane Heabutt on Materazzi’ in the World Cup 2006 Final.

Well, Kronenbourg show you what Zidane did in the dressing room afterwards to cool-down.

Next question: Does Zidane drink? Should Kronenbourg have sought his permission for this ad?

Via Advertising/Design Goodness.

Entry Filed under: Controversy,Events,International

http://www.thearabobserver.blogspot.com/ The Observer

You said it yourself, it is Ad Blog Arabia, not Ad Blog Islam!

It isn’t just that you can find people following other religion than Islam while being Arabs, but you can also find many Arabic muslims who are not really religious and would find some interests in Alcohol ads.
Khaled

well a muslim who drinks is not really a muslim. i never considered zidane so long ago. i have no prob with christians drinking or jews drinking, its normal for them. but shame for a muslim who drinks. anyway hope Allah open their eyes and guide them to real islam.

a muslim that drinks is such a shamful figure. sorry to see that.
Riz

Zidanne is proud French and then anything else. I am sure he drinks Kronenbourg after all it is one hell of a beer. Crisp, ice chilled – oooo can’t resist…..reaching for my fridge now.
http://www.thearabobserver.blogspot.com/ The Observer

Khaled, you said “well a muslim who drinks is not really a muslim”!

How can you judge people like this?

Are you a perfect muslim?

Do you follow all of the rules and have never sinned?

Do you consider Zidane drinking alcohol more shameful than his barbaric attitude of attacking the Italian player with his head in front of millions of people around the world?
http://www.jazarah.net/blog Samer Marzouq

Are we sure that this is Zidane? Look closely at his face he might someone who looks like him.
Aymen

It’s obviously not Zidane but a look-alike. Zidane is a believer in Islam as he told to the French press, and he also would ask for a lot of cash to be on any advert.
Kronenbourg should have asked his permission to picture an obvious impersonnification of himself.
http://www.thearabobserver.blogspot.com/ The Observer

Ayman, how many Islam believers who drink alcohol are there?

The are plenty, as there are plenty of Muslims who do other mistakes. No one can take his whole religion literally and follow every aspect of it. It doesn’t make him a fake Muslim.

If you like to continue our discussion abut Muslims drinking alcohol, you can go to my blog, I wrote a post about it:
http://www.thearabobserver.blogspot.com/
http://www.adblogarabia.com Zeid Nasser (Admin)

FINALLY !

Yes, AdBlogArabia is a site where we can discuss the influence of religion on advertising, but not launch into a full scale discussion of ‘who is a Muslim’.

You will note that I let the conversation go on, without removing any of your comments…. but, now it’s time to take this chat somewhere else.

Unless, of course, you want to say something about Zidane not giving his persmission to Kronenbourg (like Aymen’s post)!
http://www.thearabobserver.blogspot.com/ The Observer

Sorry Zeid, you are right. It is a total different subject. It was just triggered by your words of trying to avoid Alcohol advertisment because your blog name is AdBlog *Arabia*.

Anyway, if anyone wants to continue this discussion can more to my blog.

Have a nice day…
The Informer

Two notes: Although Islam and alcohol do not relate, they are interrelated in the modern world. Turks break their fast with beer in Istanbul (and elsewhere I’d bet). Christians are not supposed to drink either, but with time comes evolution and many point out that Jesus did make wine from water, etc… but thereâ€™s a huge chunk of Christians that say no to alcohol.

But more to the point here, that does look an awful lot like Zidane’s head, it’s hard to mimic. I think there is something afoot here. When this head-butting thing happened there was lots of speculation as to why. Maybe some folks in France wanted to hear Zidane sing out some “He offended my faith song” as to why he reacted as he did. I suspect there was a thought that maybe they’d just kick that Algerian to the curb now that he’s retired, ugly as that is.

Add into that this thought: I’m betting that you can “parody” a famous figure throughout Europe. It’s common in the West. You don’t need to seek permission if it’s a famous figure.

Here, we have Zidane the “hot-head” head-butting footballer cooling off after the match. So, it’s parody.

But maybe some were curious to see if Zidane would react much as he did on the pitch: angrily. And maybe heâ€™d sing out: “you are offending my religious values” with your parody.

As far as I’m aware he did not, much as he did not bring religion very far into comments regarding his actions in the match.

It could seem a bit like they are dangling a red cloth in front of the bull — at least I’m betting some were thinking that — curious to see if they could upset him.

I think, if taken on the surface, the ad is amusing and enjoyable. It’s good not to dig too far into Zidane’s response that day. It was what it was.

Seen on the deeper level — that it could almost be regarded as a taunt in some fashion: Are you European or are you a Muslim — it’s a bit more disturbing.
http://www.LikeZidane.com Alex

LikeZidane.com displays the act of the World Cup of Soccer Headbutt heard around the world by French player Zinedine Zidane on Italian player Macro Materazzi.
The site contains comical and real media, videos, files, games, and more on the event.
http://www.pheras.blogspot.com Pheras

So Zidane does practice Islam, he can still drink alcohol you know? One can be a proud Muslim yet drink alcohol, how hard is it to accept that?

Anyway, it’s non of anybody’s business, now the man has got to be judged for his private life? He’s achieved so much already, and people still want to stop and question if the bloke drinks beer or not. Crazy really.

At least he’d be considered a moderate Muslim this way…which reminds me, HAPPY HOUR JUST STARTED HERE! WOHOOO!
Myriam

Well, Zidane is a non practising muslim. I dont think he drinks.
Victoria

Zidane is secular. He was born into a Muslim family, but he doesn’t practice Islam. So yes, he drinks alcohol, there is nothing wrong with that.
halil

I have seen late but informer said Turks break their fast with beer. How can u say that. I am a Turk and I daresay there are Turks who drink alcohool like other Muslim countries but I have never seen or heard that any Turk breaks fast with beer. This is ridiculous. Besides, lots of them quit drinking during ramadan.
Abdullah

Just to clear things up with the user named “the observer.” A lot of people rip the word “Muslim” completely out of context. To be a “muslim” means literally “one who believes” (namely in Allah). If one chooses to drink alcohol, then they disobey the word of Allah. Allah asks his creation to fear him. If his creation doesn’t fear him, then he/she doesn’t believe in him clearly. Therefore, they are not a Muslim.
what

Hey look he is covering his face who know he could be someone else just try to ruin his name or get money look at the bottle it really high up so you can read the brand if you wanted hey I am not say it is not him but i am just saying it could be some else
pippy

it’s not zidane at all. don’t you people see that? look at the eye lid!
btw, i am a muslim but i don’t like to tell people what to drink, what to wear, what they should be.
zeinab

i dont thinks in the picture its zidane lokk closely its not zidane im sure mabe its somone ho lokes like him !!!!
yasmin

muslims shoulent drink alcohol who everthey are even if they are the best. i dount thik Zidane drinks but if he dous i hope one day he will stop drinking. because he knous that it is not islamicly to drink.
lol

guys zidane could just cooling his head off with a cold beer. how do no hes drinking it? der are no pics of him doing that
observer

zidane is fu*ked out of his ti*s. too much stress!
sajeen singh

hi,

I love zidane too much .
unknown

i think dat its not zidane bt a lok a like ….. hes not dat stooopid…aniwayz hes a muslim….yea …dats alll
mumtaz akhtar

this is not good for zidane.i am also football player but i never drink any thing.because i am muslim and muslim people cannot drink in their religion.it is ashame for us.
ahmad

what a shame zidane drinks really muslim don’t drink like this man
i used to like him but now no at all
Maha

hey , i never thought that Zidane was really a muslim by action i thought it was only by words but now im pretty sure its only a word in his vocabulary.
Bobby

Hey listen there very little people on earth who follow their religion 100%. Im Muslim Turkish i drink sometimes whats wrong with that
as long as you believe in god that is it.
Dave

ZIDANE WOULD NEVER DRINK>>> and ye are just selfish, jealous people, who say that.
Bythe way what he did with Materazzi, was the bestthing he could do
nagash

thats only fake pictures….never look like zidane….there’s only somebody same likes zidane……
mohannad

look at the picture and what is the color of the t-shirt that Zidane is waring its white and black and in the finals france were waring the white and blue..
And there is only tow lines on zidanes showlder and the first one is red but its supos to be blue…
Time

I don’t thinkt the man in the pic is Zidane.
Only one detail prove it.
Just take a look at his left hand, no wedding ring there!
younes

he does not drink because he is muslim. born in algeria and raised in france. point final. morocco is the best at soccer
http://www.ajuakber.swebby.com aju

I sure that as a muslim he will never drink alcohol.
ramy

zidane as we all know fellow morocans and tunisians and all over the world that zizou is 1 of the best football not if best in the world his capacities are far beyond expected and can complitly change the rhytme of a game as he has done in the euro 2004 in portugal vs england but when it comes to personal things such as commercials and advertising the the only thing i can say is that you cant judge a book by it cover…
momo

who drink s after a soccer game.its oviosly not zidane annd from where did he got he beer? the coache?! wake up people its not zidane dont belive this pic its fake
zizou_forever

too bad this whole debate is absolutely pointless since all you are clearly blind. it’s not zidane, look at his face you monkeys.
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Majeed

First of all this picture is of a look alike zidane. The real zidane has a receding hair line and this guy has a full head of hair and just shave his hair.
Second of all there is not getting around it Muslims dont drink. If zidane drinks then its his personal choice. Whether or not he conforms to islam is his choice. I dont drink but i know alot of Muslims who do.
Third Arab does not = Muslim.
Third zidane is not barbaric, everyone has limits most nationalities are greatly offended by any references about their mothers or sisters, arabs/ french are not excluded from the equation.
Last Fighting over the internet is like the special Olympics if you win your still retarded.
AHMAD

its imposiple that is zizou drink some thing like this
http://got__haleebhotmail.com Laily

You guys Zidane doesnt drink. Gawd. After he headbutted Martazzi (or whatever his name is) He needed something cold to put on his head. If I bump my head and I put frozen meat on my head then that doesnt mean I am eating frozen meat. Who ever made this “blog” is just trying to start stupid rumors.
blah

Its not even ZIdane in the ad, Look at his head. Its clearly not his, their is shaved hair all the way around, but Zizou doesn’t have any on the very top of his head and the shirt isn’t even right.
http://www.myspace.com/jose Arab4Life

It is Zidane.
OK so Zidane drinks…what is the big deal anyway? He is a muslim but doesn’t go to the Mosque every friday, brag like a hypocrite about praying and fasting, or tell his wife to cover her face. No one cares if you think whether others should follow “Islam” because its not your religion but the type of person you are. Why is it OK for Christians/Jews to drink but not for Muslims? do you think you are better than them? I’m arabic (my dad is muslim) and I sure as hell don’t think that anyone is better than others due to his/her religion. If you think so then shame on you, move to saudi arabia, pray and fund terrorism, get 72 virgins (its remarkable that the virgin trick works). Its the type of person YOU are not what you claim to follow, wake up and shave.
Zidane is a legend and beat Brazil in ’07. Materazzi is a horse faced worldclass diver. Yes they both held the worldcup: except one scored two goals to earn it, the other dived.
Vira

do not forget zizou is best football playar ever, better than Maradona and pele, so i dont care if he drink
http://www.friendster.com/h4yu HaYu

Mymind said that Zidane only put the cool bottle on his head, to cooler his mind.
And whatever happend he is still my favourite.

Salam to Zidane
——-h4yu——–
Robert

DONT EVER MESS WITH ZIDANE!!!!! HES THE BEST SOCCER PLAYER EVER . He is a real French-man. Vive Le ZIDANE
asanbay suranov

muslims don’t drink alcohol so i think he also knows this rule
ziz

if u look closelly it is not zidane.. !

and so what if he does drink !!!

i mean lots of muslims do drink .. im not saying its not sin it is ! but we cant say hes a bad person just becouse he drink !! are we forgetting that he is french !! not ARABIAN !!
helmi

He’s not zidane. Just make a gossip. about muslim and drunk?,whatever because muslim different with islam. Love and Peace
NANA

Here is the thing, ZIDAN RULES!!!! whatever anyone says, becides look at the pic it’s not Zi if it was you’ll see the part on his head that’s getting bold!!! ANYWAYS HE’s still my HERO!!!!

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