Player Profile: Samir Nasri | American Soccer Reader

AmericanSoccerReader posted 6/26/2008 from americansoccerreader.com [flag]

Samir Nasri was born in Marseille, France 21 years ago today. Now an attacking center midfielder for France and Arsenal (though that’s still unconfirmed), Nasri is about to jump from Le Championnat’s Marseille to the English Premiership. While typically a transition a player of his age is given time to adjust to, Nasri’s price (£15.8 million) and hype (labeled as the next Zinedine Zidane) has rais [link]

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