Materazzi Insult to Zidane.

[Zip]

You are joking? He did nothing wrong. Thats part and parcel of football. Can't take stick? Don't play football.

Where do you want this stick?


I dont see why you say this? Most other sports have been cracking down on sledging and racist coments for years.
IIRC ther have been cricketers that have been suspended for it.
If soccer/football trully is the world game then they need to crack down on any racism and personal sledging

 

[Bubo]

I think Matterazzi was mocking Zindane for not being hard enough to get the part of Juggernaut in X-Men 3 when he auditioned. Zindane was laughuing this off as he walked away, but when Matterazzi reminded him he lost out to Vinne Jones of all people Zidane lost it and decided to show the film going public just what they were missing, big style.

 

[cheets64]

6 ) Zidane should have let it slide

Half a dozen ) Materazzi shoudlnt of said what he said.

 

[vanpeebles]

he said his momma had a peg leg with a kick stand

 

[Chong Warrior]

From an article in observer sport monthly - http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1183761,00.html

Sunday April 4, 2004
The Observer

“One of the theories about Zidane as a player is that he is driven by an inner rage. His football is elegant and masterful, charged with technique and vision. But he can still erupt into shocking violence that is as sudden as it is inexplicable. The most famous examples of this include head butting Jochen Kientz of Hamburg during a Champions League match, when he was at Juventus in 2000 (an action that cost him a five match suspension) and his stomping on the hapless Faoud Amin of Saudi Arabia during the 1998 World Cup finals (this latter action was, strangely enough, widely applauded in the Berber community as Zidane's revenge on hated Arab 'extremists').

Zidane's first coaches at AS Cannes noticed quickly that he was raw and sensitive, eager to attack spectators who insulted his race or family. The priority of his first coach, Jean Varraud, was to get him to channel his anger and focus more on his game. According to Varraud, Zidane's first weeks at Cannes were spent mainly on cleaning duty as a punishment for punching an opponent who had mocked his ghetto origins. “

 

[G|mp]

He aint as hard as Eric

 

[Hinchy55]

On the football against racism website:

Zinedine Zidane, France Captain
”Every four years we experience a unique time in which people congregate together, take part together and celebrate together. Racists are not invited."

I guess if the rumours are true.. Materazzi is not invited!!

There's so much support for Zidane because of the kind of player he is. He doesn't normally have the same level of aggression as people like Rooney for example. And so an action like makes it obvious that the provoking was slightly more serious than a baldy joke.

Materrazzi isn't so innocent himself. I recall a game against Villereal this year where he decided to elbow an oppoent with a fair bit of conviction.

 

[JohnnyG]

There's so much support for Zidane because of the kind of player he is. He doesn't normally have the same level of aggression as people like Rooney for example. And so an action like makes it obvious that the provoking was slightly more serious than a baldy joke.

Chong's post above says he does have a lot of aggression

 

[atpbx]

Of all players, I would never expect Zidane to lose it like that. You rarely even see him going in with a dangerous challenge, hes just not that kind of player..

He was sent off for stamping on a player a few years ago.
He's a dirty ****.

 

[Morba]

Yes that was me and i was shocked to see my post quoted

SCM

good work micks mate

 

[SCM]

good work micks mate

Ta Morba as very surprised i did get used as that topic had 800 replies by last night, so i assume a mod there liked my post and used or suggested it.

SCM

 

[Zip]

According to French 'sources' Materazzi said "I hope Jean suffered".

Jean Varraud was Zidane's first trainer and Zidane considered him his second father. He died from a long cancer battle just before/during the World Cup.

He definatly shoulda gone for the face

 

[AJUK]

From an article in observer sport monthly - http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1183761,00.html

He is punchier than an England fan after 20 pints of Stella and a Creme de Menthe.

 

[Moonpie2]

As far as I am concerned there is no sentance on earth that should make a proffessional footballer, a captain, a grown man, a role model, an experienced athlete react like that infront of one billion people.

Racism, xenophobia, insulting the dead, who cares... Zidane should have known they were just words designed to get a rise out of him.
And he fell for it like a school child.

Well done Zidane, you may have lost your country the world cup on your last game

 

[FeFiDoh]

blah blah blah blah blah at all the people saying he shouldnt do it because of this and because of that. If its true about guy saying "hope he suffered" and some 1 said it to you about your dad im pretty sure you wouldnt just walk away. So what if its infront of a load of people he layed the smack down and the guy deserved it!

 

[Chong Warrior]

According to French 'sources' Materazzi said "I hope Jean suffered".

Jean Varraud was Zidane's first trainer and Zidane considered him his second father. He died from a long cancer battle just before/during the World Cup.

If that's true, I'd have either ignored him totally... or broke his face... totally. I certainly wouldn't have head butted him in the chest.

Saying that if I was as talented as Zidane I'd have tried my best to hurt him real bad... by scoring again?

 

[Hlebio]

According to some guy on the news, Materazzi called Zidane's mum a whore. Worse considering she is very very ill and she got worse on the morning of the final.

 

[duc999]

Imagine you just watched your best friend die of cancer and some idiot said to you during a game ' I hope he suffered ' what would you do ??

If you would turn the other cheek then well done , personally speaking I would dismember the sick **** there and then.

Some things are bigger than just a game , for me thats one of them. I'm not condoning what Zidane did, but if these reports are correct I can understand why he did it.

Theres a line and it was crossed.

 

[JohnnyG]

However bad the insult, telling him that you will chin him after the game & doing it is a much better course of action

 

[G|mp]

Aye he should have played out of his skin and scored again and then glassed him in the bar afterwards