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- dutchgoldtony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+83Italian footballer Marco Materazzi to French captain Zinadine Zidane in the last game of Zidanes career, the final of the World Cup, before he headbutted him in the chest - quality...
My quote of the tournament, when a random Parisian was being interviewed about the incident:
"Sometimes you just have to treat the Italians like that" - thirdman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+85He would have if his mother hadn't been rushed to hospital 24 hours before. Sometimes you just snap.
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -12/+85Okay, someone's been hiding under a rock.
Soccer (football, whatever) players, who were involved in an interesting altercation during the finals of the World Cup.
But you're obviously not interested and uninformed, so next time, just keep your comments to yourself. - JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+68Since he would have been throw out either way, he should at least have aimed for his face.
- CountryJustice, on 10/12/2007, -5/+55If Materazzi really did say that, then I say he got off easy with just a head-butt to the sternum.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+68why the hell are you commenting on something you dont know about?
dumb jackass - doofis, on 10/12/2007, -11/+53It doesn't matter what Materazzi said (and I wouldn't trust what's written in the Sun), Zidane shouldn't have done it. He's been in the game long enough to know that trash-talking goes with the territory. It was his chance to bow out of football with the greatest trophy, leading a French team to a result no one before the tournament predicted. Instead he blew it.
- numptydumpty, on 10/12/2007, -21/+59Right, where to start...?
Has anyone ever noticed how America's big sports are girly bastardisations of English Sports?
Baseball = Rounders (what girls play at school in the UK)
Basketball = Netball (also exclusive to women in the UK)
American "football" = Rugby (but with 30lbs of armor tp protect themselves... aaaaah - also love the way they call it football when they run with the ball in their hands) - szelij, on 10/12/2007, -7/+35This is reported by the BBC...so its valid even though the webbie you're giving us is to the Sun which is a piece of crap *****.
And i agree with the quote. - sixlocal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Way more entertaining? You mean all the commercials you watch that take up 50% of time spent watching the sport?
- mrhahn, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32To be honest, I think professional footballers get this all the time on and even off the pitch. You'd expect a player like Zidane to just shrug it off and get on with the match.
- V3X3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23"Alex Hayes, London correspondent for French sports newspaper L’Equipe, said: “On that day, with his mother being unwell, it wasn’t a clever thing, or the right thing to say.”
What made it worse is the fact that Zidane's mom is dying almost which makes it even more of a sensitive subject. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26All things considered, the comment came at what will probably prove to be the most intense moments in Zidanes life. Matterazi knew it too. Players are trained to draw penalties, and Zidane didn't disappoint. Was he right to do what he did? Maybe, but either way, they both got what they deserved, Matterazi, a head butt to the chest, and Zidane, a red card.The most disappointing part is really that Zidane couldn't stay cool headed enough to walk away, and probably cost France the game.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22Unlike Baseball, right?
- dbstovall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@drw
I understand your position but the fact of the matter is that you don't know what the hell you are talking about. Most of my fellow Americans ideas about soccer are based off of what they remember from playing it as a kid on the playground or in a youth league. And of course, that is about as much like real soccer as pop-Warner is like real football. The truth is that soccer is a very demanding sport and there is a lot of contact in the game, but it is of a different nature than what we are used to in American football. I don't think many Americans would call professional basketball players pansies, but their sport is no where near as physical as football. However, it does have a very tight set of rules that determine exactly how physical you can be in the course of a game without committing a foul. Still in basketball there are all kinds of strategies around when to foul, how hard, in what circumstances, and even *gasps* how to "draw a foul".
Soccer is no different. It is a contact sport that tightly regulates how violent and dangerous the contact can be. Not every foul results in a card, even some terribly viscous ones. So, players and teams have developed strategies around how they can "draw fouls". Besides you can't have it both ways, you can't call someone a pansy for getting hurt over the tiniest contact in one breath, and then in the next say that they were faking it and get up start playing right away again. Either they are wimps and are hurt, or they are faking it. Since we know that most of the time they are embellishing for some reason maybe you should use your head and try to think about why they might be doing that. Maybe there is some sort of strategy involved? Maybe there is a purpose?
Or maybe your head will explode if you try and think about it to much. So, since your knowledge of soccer is obviously extremely limited, and you basically have no idea what you are talking about why don't you just STFU. - catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19"and never score."
surely you can sympathise? - Iconoclast5000, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19I'm with you with regards to The Sun. An expert on the BBC's 10 o'clock news gave this alternative translation:
"Materazzi's first word to Zidane was "no" before he then told him to "calm down".
He then accused him of being a "liar" and wished "an ugly death to you and your family" on the day the Frenchman's mother had been taken to hospital ill. This was followed by "Go f*** yourself". "
Which of course is insensitive (presuming he was aware Zidane's mother was ill in hospital, I wasn't) but far less dramatic and nowhere near as sensational as The Sun's report. To be honest I trust the The Sun's journalists about as far as I could throw the building they work in.
The English tabloids seem determined to paint Zidane as a hero over this whole affair. They are seriously playing up the idea he was defending his ill mother's honour. Which is a load of old rot. This wasn't some young player doing something rash in the heat of the moment. This was a veteran who made a calculated assault on another player, waiting till he thought he was unobserved before acting like a despicable thug. He was a truly gifted footballer but his career has been peppered with violent incidents. In the final he showed his true colours, at heart he just a thug. A thug with no respect for his sport at that. - BeerLover, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Soccer is short for associated football.
That is the name it was given when they developed the rules in 18th century universities.
The pilgrims who first went over to America shortened it to soccer, the rest of the word carried on calling it football. Not sure why Canada and Australia followed suit.
American Football evolved from rugby and has nothing to do with football. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18Living in England, I am well aware of the validity of The Sun newspaper. It literally makes up stories to gain 'exclusives'.
Frankly, believe nothing you read on that site.
Marked as innacurate. - mrhaines, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Agree...Zidane just went up in my list of people I respect...not down.
- jumbopongo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@ doofis
However, Zidane DID bow out with being awarded the best player of the tournament.
When you look at the big picture, Zidane was the reason France even had a chance of winning the game / entire World Cup. He may have blown it for himself, but certainly didn't blow the game for France. - Ulrezaj, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18Gee, they're only throwing insults at each other every 15 seconds or so, but that one was bad enough to warrant getting yourself booked on the grand finale of the world cup and your career? I wonder how Zidane would react to a 5 minute session in a chatroom with some 12-yr olds...
- vuzman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12You had me until you ended your sentence with "lol", instantly labeling yourself as an idiot.
But I agree, football as name is much better suited for soccer than for american football. - teleporter, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Materazzi in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGcUr0S-FU
The headbutt may not have been justified at that moment, but he certainly deserves it at some point in his career. Maybe that's what Zidane was put on this earth to do. - lesosso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12try saying a comment like that to a hockey player. You better like the taste of your own teeth!
- Platypus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11No matter what Materazzi said, Zidane's best revenge would have been to stay in the game and win.
- whereswaldo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11drw: Because you never personally attack others? From an earlier comment you posted-
"LOL, what does a guy who dugg "Final Fantasy 3 box art", "Ajax", "PHP", and other nerdy stuff know about "scoring".
Pathetic."
Do us a favor, and shut your hypocritical mouth the ***** up. - JangoFett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'd watch golf if there was a chance Tiger was going to hit someone with a golf club.
- xymor, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19I don't know about you, but if someone called my mon a "terrorist whore", I'd rip off his balls and shove up his ass.
That doen't justify what Zizou did, but certainly explains it. Anyway, I don't think any less of him. He's a genius, headbut or not. - Ikioi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"I wonder how Zidane would react to a 5 minute session in a chatroom with some 12-yr olds..."
Or in a Digg thread about himself. ;) - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12"The lip-reader claimed the Italian had said:"
I mean, seriously... - indijay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Sick spoilsport bastard, all that I can say to Materazzi's action. In fact, you could see his murmuring on telly!!
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I have to disagree here. Bombing is alot harsher than a headbutt. It's like saying spanking a child when they have done somthing wrong is the moral equivalent of committing genocide because someone looked at you funny. Context and severity are major factors in morals, and every single persons morals differ.
And the bbc version has already been linked to half a dozen times already... - tukes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8no. if zidane had really hurt matterazzi, like a truly violent headbutt to the face, he would probably face charges.
zidane did the right street smart fighting thing to do. (aside from actually beating italy ON THE PITCH) and that is take the wind out of the italian. a blow like that one, to the chest, leaves the person completely out of air. irl, in the street, zidane would have done that and then kicked the guy while he was down. - JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I saw and Dugg this one before, but you have to admit that this one is much more direct. :P
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"He was making such a glorious stand why did he wait till he thought no one (of consequence) was looking for before doing it?"
He didn't wait dumbass. - rolosworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7OMG he is doing the Shao Khan knee move!! LOL
- amnezia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Grief... it's fusbol, football, soccer adn god knows what in other languages - all the same game. It's called soccer in Australia, soccer in South Africa, soccer in the US, soccer in Canada. No point in getting upset about it.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Still not confirmed. But anyways, knowing Zidane, that italian had to say something that made it fking deserve it. In perspective, it's like watching Tiger Woods all of a sudden wack another player with a golf club. You're kinda sure something really mean was said.
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7lmfao @ the flash game!
IMHO, and I usually don't condone violence at all, Materazzi deserved it, and more.
I'm impressed Zidane could restrain himself enough not to headbut Materazzi in the face, and Materazzi obviously dove, a head to the upper chest hurts, but not as badly as Materazzi made it look. - Allometry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Materazzi is a wanker! He had it coming to him.
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10@drw2583.
Yeah because 'Soccer' isn't a contact sport is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdEw6g0XSXY&search=s - hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6More entertaining? Hahaha. Sorry, us Americans aren't drawing the 2 billion person crowd every year. Join me and step off the USA nationalism pedastal.
Yeah, I can't defend Baseball, Stickball, Rounders. From George Carlin:
- You play in a park
- You're just trying to go home
- You want to be safe on a base (like the Army)
- If you ***** up, no problem, that was an error - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6That ***** deserved a kick in the face. Go Zidane!
- bs0l, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sure Zidane was angry, but to headbutt a player on another team? There are people of all ages watching this around the world. Besides making himself look like a fool, he's not being a very mature adult or role model for kids.
- ZenTaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"if you follow soccer then you will know that Zidane is fairly calm player, he usually tries to solve things "the other way" (calm way)".
If you'd followed the game closely you'd know that Zidane has been sent off fourteen times during his career. One of those was for a headbutt in a Champions League game in 2000 which got him a five match ban. He also got sent off for stamping on a player during the 1998 World Cup. Do those sound like the actions of a calm player to you? He was a wonderful player, but with a nasty streak. - moke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7One thing is for sure, if you follow soccer then you will know that Zidane is fairly calm player, he usually tries to solve things "the other way" (calm way). I believe that Italian player (who has a history of violence) provoked Zidane enough for him to react that way. I'll say ... he deserved it. It's not the right way, finals, his last game, 1:1 ... but hey if he said what he said ... Italian player is lucky.
- Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"Looks like Zidane's mommy and daddy forgot to teach him, "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.""
Don't tell me you believe in nursery rhymes? How old are you? xD
Zidane laid the smackdown on matarazzi and showed him whose boss. He defended his honor. - SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/5169342.stm
BBC coverage. Also confrims Materazzi did issue an insult. - anguijm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How can you not like soccer(I mean football) with drama like this.
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