World Cup: Materazzi Admits He Insulted Zidane

The Indy Channel ^ | July 11, 2006 | AP

[Abathar]

""I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is.""

LOL Excuse of the year!

[Wolfie]

Yikes. Pegged the BS meter with that one.

[Finop]

Sticks & Stones... LOL

[2banana]

Zidane and Materazzi exchanged words in extra-time of Sunday's final in Berlin. Seconds later, Zidane lowered his head and rammed Materazzi in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Zidane was ejected from the match.

For someone who took the word "terrorist" as such an insult - he sure did act like one...

[pabianice]

"But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is."

Muslim. Blows-up women and children. Wants to kill all the world's Jews. Believes the world should be enslaved under Islam and dragged back to the 12th century. Any questions?

[lysie]

I was thinking more along the lines of :

I'm rubber, you're glue. Anything you say bounces off me and sticks on to you.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

World Cup aftermath ping.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

whatever he said was probably mild by nfl or nba standards..IMHO the italian did exactly what he wanted to do which was bait the opposing teams number 1 penalty kicker in case it came down to that, which it did..

[oldleft]

HEY! Wait a minute! Who said anything about ISLAMIC terrorist! BUSTED!

[Chi-townChief]

Probably something about Zidane's mama and goats.

[mikrofon]

Materazzi ain't no Maserati...

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Europeans have little skill in assimilation/integration. Zidane is a Frenchman, not an Algerian. How come the Algerian president is making a comment about a foreign soccer athlete? (rhetorical).

[Dazedcat]

Well terrorist or not, the guy was a total idiot for doing what he did. The Italian guy tried a strategy and it worked. Good for the old country of my heritage and tough luck for good old France.

I was half expecting the French team to surrender just on general principals anyway. But I got an unexpected bonus; another middle eastern moron making a total jackass out of himself in front of a global audience.

Viva Italia! Life is good.

[ichabod1]

I heard on the news this morning it was something along the lines of son of a terrorist ho.

[wideawake]

I love how the press is spinning it so that the guy who committed the assault is the victim.

[r9etb]

Well, whatever he said, Zidane sure took the bait.

It was an impressive feat, actually. Trash talk is supposed to take a guy's head out of the game. Materazzi found a way to use Zidane's head to get the rest of his body out of the game.

[CygnusXI]

"But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is."

Either:

A. He's a liar

B. He really did deserve the headbutt.

[Sabatier]

"I categorically did not call him a terrorist."

Just called his mother a terrorist. That's different.

[eyespysomething]

I read on some message board (and of course this is rumor) that M. told Z. he wanted his wife's shirt later.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

..another middle eastern moron making a total jackass out of himself ..

Algeria [N. Africa] is not the middle east.