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Bixente Lizarazu
Bixente Lizarazu (born December 9, 1969 in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) is a football (soccer) left defender and midfielder for Bayern Munich and France.
Lizarazu, a Basque, has been capped 95 times for France, and helped them win the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Football Championship. He won four Bundesliga championships with Bayern Munich, as well as the Champions League, three German Cups, and an Intercontinental Cup.
Before coming to Germany, Lizarazu played for Girondins de Bordeaux, where he played in the 1996 UEFA Cup final against Bayern; and Athletic Bilbao, where he was the club's only non-Spanish player since World War I. He had said he would leave Bayern in the 2004 offseason, and eventually signed with Olympique Marseille. However, six months after signing with Marseille, he returned to Bayern Munich in January 2005.
He has been threatened by ETA.
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