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By Grey Whitebloom “In my team, the numbers go from one to 11,” Real Madrid president Florentino Perez told Zinedine Zidane after he signed for the Spanish behemoths in 2001. “There are no 35 or 40 on the jerseys!” Zidane was happy to accept the lowest available number, making five such an iconic figure in Madrid’s history that Jude Bellingham rang up Jesus Vallejo to ask for the digit when he moved to Spain’s capital two decades later. Kylian Mbappe, the heir to Zidane’s throne at the summit of French football, is poised to begin his own negotiations for squad numbers after finally agreeing a…

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