How did he manage to become
one of these guys? And these are just a small sample of guys richer and more famous... Either way, it's amazing!
Posted on 07/10/2006 1:28:36 PM PDT by Caravaggio
Berlin — Was it something he said?
With France and Italy tied in extra time of Sunday's World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi in the chest and was ejected. France went on to lose on penalty kicks.
The day after, still no one knew what the Italian defender might have said to the French star.
"The Italians did everything they could do to provoke Zidane," France defender William Gallas said.
Seconds before, Materazzi had grabbed a handful of Zidane's jersey just as a French attack on goal passed harmlessly by. The two exchanged words as they walked back up the field, well behind the play. Then, without warning, Zidane spun around, lowered his head and rammed Materazzi, knocking him to the ground.
The Paris-based anti-racism advocacy group SOS-Racism issued a statement Monday quoting "several very well informed sources from the world of football" as saying Materazzi called Zidane a "dirty terrorist." It demanded that FIFA, soccer's world governing body, investigate and take any appropriate action.
FIFA, which reviews all red cards at the World Cup, would not comment on the specifics.
"This is a disciplinary matter now. I can't give any statements now," FIFA spokesman Markus Siegler said.
Materazzi, meanwhile, was quoted as denying the terrorist comment
"It is absolutely not true, I didn't call him a terrorist, I don't know anything about that," the Italian news agency ANSA quoted Materazzi as saying when he arrived with his team at an Italian military airfield.
"What happened is what all the world saw live on TV," the Italian player said, referring to the head-butting.
Zidane's agent, Alain Migliaccio, was quoted by the BCC as saying the France captain told him the Italian "said something very serious to him, but he wouldn't tell me what."
Whatever it was, it was enough to infuriate Zidane.
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You can see Materazzi's grab in this clip.
Real classy if the guy was talking smack about Zidane's mamma in the hospital.
a frenchman attacking something?
Whilst what he did was stupid I ask anyone here how they would have reacted under the same provocation?
You finish the game, play hard, and drop the guy like a bad habit after the final whistle.
That's awesome! I'm going to play that all day in the office.
He's a punk.
Maybe the realization hit him...he's a thirty-odd year old "man," who wasted his youth playing a game normally reserved for pre-teenage kids.
You bet.
There's a tennis game I was addicted to during the fortnight of Wimbledon.
"Break" cleaned up the sight so I can now post links here if I want or send them to family and friends without all the smutty advertisements/personals on the sidebars.
And became one of the planets wealthiest and most famous atheletes in the process.
nope that aint it
How did he manage to become
one of these guys? And these are just a small sample of guys richer and more famous... Either way, it's amazing!
With the exception of Jordan I have no idea who any of them are and I only know him because it says so on the vack of his shirt.
Richer? possibly but not by much.
More globally famous? not even close
Richer? possibly but not by much. More globally famous? not even close
Salary-wise Alex Rodriguez (the baseball player pictured in sunglasses) is one rich fellow. Last I heard, he was the highest paid team sport player in the world, including soccer. And while American football doesn't have much worldwide following, I wouldn't underestimate the fame of baseball players internationally. Baseball is not a worldwide game to the extent soccer is, but it's not the single country sport many of its baseball-igorant detractors think it is.
Wasted? It cost 73 million Euros for Real Madrid to get him.
Cetainly NOT more famous, maybe in your corner of the world
Then I feel sorry for you and your totally isolated life. How do you manage with the Internet?
And that was a waste of money...funny money, true, but a waste nonetheless.
Of course, I was talking about the IslamoFrog wasting his life playing a kids' game, but why should we let that tiny difference bother you?
I guess you are right because you say it's a waste. Why don't you run for office since your ideas must be right because you thought them.
I would never get elected. I would bring no-nonsense solutions, and that's something a lot of voters don't want.
First solution would be to eliminate succer.
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