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It all boils down to the fact that France lost their 4th top player when Zidane made this foolish mistake. Vieria had already been subbed for injury, and Domenech took out Ribery and Henry from what I can only imagine is fatigue. Zidane had taken every penalty kick for France to that point, and scored every time. Whether it be bad coaching, to put the game in the hands of the like as Trezeguet was not the smartest play.

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I am sure that Zidane's tears also encompassed the fact that he let his team and country down just when they needed him. As the title below suggests I do understand how people can become heated. There were probably some things said by the Italians that made him really angry (a tactic that he fell for).

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JB said:

Zidane will make an statement in few days about the incident. It was mention that the Italian player told him something very serious and he reacted. Based on his last coach, Zidane reacts quickly to things. In any case, there are two organizations that are going to investigate into the matter. It seems like the Italian told Zidane "dirty terrorist". The Italian player totally denies saying that.
It's interesting that FIFA besides what happened awarded him as the best player of the World Cup.

https://www.courant.com/sports/sns-ap-soc-w...eadlines-sports

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* Blatter said that he is waiting for the results of the investigation about the incident with Zidane to decide whether or not they would take away the award as best football player of the World Cup. He said that the award is not given by FIFA but by a group of journalists but if FIFA sees some unethical behavior, then they need to intervene. Zidane will give a press conference today.

* Klinsmann is leaving his job as Germany's coach and will spend 6 months of vacation with his family that lives in the US. He said he does not have the strenght to continue.

* Argentina is number 3 in the FIFA ranking now. Here is the top ten:

1- Brazil 1630 points
2- Italy 1550 points
3- Argentina 1472 points
4- France 1462 points
5- England 1434 points
6- Netherlands 1322 points
7- Spain 1309 points
8- Portugal 1301 points
9- Germany 1229 points
10- Czech Republic 1223 points

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I am looing forward with curiosity as to what Zidane will say.

Trinidad & Tobago also fell all the way to the 60s from the 40s, so they are not doing well.

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MOTHER, SISTER INSULTED, ZIDANE SAYS

French soccer star Zinedine Zidane says insults about his sister and mother provoked him to head-butt Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/worldcup2006/stor...-head-butt.html

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This is the finality (hopefully) on the Zidane issue, Zidane says he will give three days to FIFA as community service since he is already retiring:

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Zidane would not have even bothered head butting Matterazi had the referee in previous games had any class. Australia was so robbed by the "big player" syndrome it's not funny.

France were the best team. Italy didn't even deserve to be there. We were all over them.

I'm an Aussie through and through. Sure, we weren't "expected" to make the second round. I've always said we were good enough and quite frankly we were the only team that ever looked like beating the boring Italian defence.

The Italians can have nightmares knowing the only way they won the world cup was through Grosso's 8.7 point dive. How pathetic.

Quite frankly, Argentina was by far the best football team at the world cup and were defeated by nonsense refereeing, lazy tactics and nothing else.

Edited: arvhic on 28th Aug, 2006 - 12:51am