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Bixente Lizarazu
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Bixente Lizarazu (born December 9, 1969 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Saint-Jean-de-Luz: saint-jean-de-luz (basque donibane lohitzun) is a commune of the pyrénées-atlantiques...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , France (France: A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) ) is a football (soccer) (football (soccer): more facts about this subject) left defender (left defender: more facts about this subject) and midfielder (midfielder: in association football a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between...
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Lizarazu, a Basque (Basque: A member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain) , has been capped 95 times for France, and helped them win the 1998 World Cup (1998 World Cup: more facts about this subject) and the 2000 European Football Championship (2000 European Football Championship: more facts about this subject) . He has won four Bundesliga (Bundesliga: more facts about this subject) championships with Bayern Munich, as well as three German Cup (German Cup: the german cup (official german title: "dfb-pokal") is an annually held elimination football...
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Before coming to Germany (Germany: A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) , Lizarazu played for Girondins de Bordeaux (Girondins de Bordeaux: fc girondins de bordeaux is a french football (soccer)|football team, playing in the...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , where he played in the 1996 UEFA Cup (UEFA Cup: a second tournament took place between 1958 and 1960, all tournaments since have been held on a...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) final against Bayern; and Athletic Bilbao (Athletic Bilbao: more facts about this subject) , where he was the club's only non-Spanish player since World War I (World War I: A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) . He had said he would leave Bayern in the 2004 offseason, and eventually signed with Olympique Marseille (Olympique Marseille: olympique de marseille is a football team that plays in ligue 1, the top level of the...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) . However, six months after signing with Marseille, he returned to Bayern Munich in January 2005.
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