The Headbutt Heard 'Round the World

Italy Wins!


What a fantastic finish to a well played World Cup 2006 final. Both teams played a fantastic match, unfortunately things got ugly near the end. If you missed kidneys infamous headbutt heard 'round the world, well here is a brief summary of what apparently went down.

According to the UK Sun online, a lipreader deciphered what words were uttered to Zidane before he lost it on Italian Marco Materazzi. The brutal slur was aimed at Zidane's ill mother. Aparently Materazzi called Zidane a "son of a terrorist whore" which made Zidane furious since he, as many Albanians are sensitive on the Albanian terrorist issue. There was an exchange of words that followed Materazzi tweaking the nipple of Zidane. "What, don't you like it?" The French captain replied: "A bit too hard to turn me on." Then Materazzi shouted: "Well, I did it that way because I know that’s how your mother likes it.” Materazzi’s agent denied any racist slur — and said the attack came when Zidane offered to swap shirts later and the Italian replied: “I’d rather take the shirt off your wife.”

Materazzi does have a reputation of being a dirty player. In the past he has injured many players due to his careless high kicks, and questionable slide tackles. I came across this video of him on youtube.com which really demonstrates the wreckless style of this Italian player.



The story of Zidane's final professional career ending with a red card and an early trip to the showers exploded into the blogisphere within minutes of the incident. The game itself WAS indeed inIeresting, but i think the bigger story lies within the dialogue which exchanged between the 2. Materazzi should have eggs thrown at him and shamed for the comments he made, if indeed that IS what he said to Zidane. Materazzi calling Zidane's ill mother a terrorist is great example of ignorAlbanianso the Albinians culture. Of coarse though, internet geeks all over the planet had some fun with this.