Materazzi

Well, I am not in favor of violence, but Materazzi is widely known for being a real asshole, so probably he deserved that.

Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 10, 2006 2006

Mr. Zidane is, of course, best known among U.S. sports fans for having delivered that infamous head butt to the chest of his Italian antagonist Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy.

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His last Champions League fixture – Internazionale's semi-final against Barcelona in April 2010 – saw him throw his shirt at José Mourinho's feet and stalk down the tunnel for a confrontation with Marco Materazzi.

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Few fans will forget how star French midfielder Zinedine Zidane head-butted Italy's Marco Materazzi to the ground, got expelled and may have cost France the title in the 2006 cup.

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The World Cup is similarly opaque until it's over, and we look back and reinterpret the preceding events in hindsight: in 2006, the ageing Zidane drags a woeful French team all the way to the final; with ten minutes of his stellar career remaining, he erupts into rage and charges into the gadfly Materazzi with his head, and France crumble to defeat.

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Both men had already scored in the match, Zidane with an audaciously chipped penalty and Materazzi with aheader; Materazzi was also one ofthe five Italians who converted their penalties to secure victory in the shoot-out.

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The World Cup is similarly opaque until it's over, and we look back and reinterpret the preceding events in hindsight: in 2006, the ageing Zidane drags a woeful French team all the way to the final; with ten minutes of his stellar career remaining, he erupts into rage and charges into the gadfly Materazzi with his head, and France crumble to defeat.

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The Materazzi are clearly early renaissance Italian, whilst the story refers to York as one of their towns.

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Zidane did imply that Materazzi repeatedly made insulting remarks about Zidane's mother and his sister.

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