Posted on 07/11/2006 10:25:59 AM PDT by Abathar
MILAN, Italy -- Marco Materazzi acknowledged he insulted Zinedine Zidane before the French captain head-butted him in the World Cup final, but repeated his denial that he called Zidane a "terrorist."
"I did insult him, it's true," Materazzi said in Tuesday's Gazzetta dello Sport. "But I categorically did not call him a terrorist. I'm not cultured and I don't even know what an Islamic terrorist is."
A Paris-based anti-racism group issued a statement Monday saying Materazzi had called Zidane, whose parents emigrated to France from Algeria, a "dirty terrorist."
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.
"I held his shirt for a few seconds only, then he turned round and spoke to me, sneering," the Italian defender told the newspaper. "He looked me up and down, arrogantly and said: 'If you really want my shirt, I'll give it to you afterwards."'
The 32-year-old Inter Milan player did not elaborate on exactly what he said to Zidane.
"It was one of those insults you're told tens of times and that always fly around the pitch," he said.
Also Tuesday, Algeria's president defended Zidane and said soccer fans shouldn't condemn the French star.
"We are just human beings, our duty is not to judge, our duty is to understand," Abdelaziz Bouteflika said in London after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
These lib types they say this cr-p, but when it comes to action they are the biggest fascists and fanatics--stopping at nothing to hurt the ones they judge and will never lift one pinkie to understand.
God judged; Jesus hated the sin. This manufactured BS is manmade hooey. Practice what you preach their brother. T'ain't he judging the judgers? Hypocrite.
Refresh my memory.
Rush Limbaugh always looks at any football matchup based on the political correctness of the teams' mascots rather than any strategy or skills of the teams.
And under the global media complex, this is always winning play.
Here.
As the son of two Algerian immigrants, the 34-year-old is proud of his North African roots, dedicating France’s 1998 World Cup win to “all Algerians who are proud of their flag and all those who have made sacrifices for their family but who have never abandoned their own culture”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,28783-2263995,00.html
If you mean 12th century BC, then you are correct. Muslims haven't made it to the 12th century AD, yet.
Thank you. That's instructive.
lol. Ok either one of us will win this one so let's just agree to disagree. I don't have that big a fight in this one...
"He was provoked and took the bait. "
A bad human being is a bad human being. I don't know if he's as good as you say he is at soccer, and don't care. I know he's a muslim, and islam produces evil.
If he's in pain... good. If he has more trouble in his future, I'll enjoy schadenfreude.
"Ahhh, yer ma wears army boots!"
Being euro-trash, probably more like, "yer ma voted for George Bush, twice."
I thought the French played a better game and deserved to win up until Zidane nailed that bastard in the chest. It doesn't matter what he said---there is no excuse for retaliating like that in a sport like soccer.Now, in a man's sport, like hockey, you could drop your gloves and beat the piss out of the bastard. But in a sissy sport like soccer---where every time they got touched, the Italians exhibited poorer acting skills than all the failed soap opera stars in New York City---you can't. So the best way to "get back" at the guy who calls your mother a terrorist, or suggests that he's going to bang your wife after the game, is to keep your mouth shut, keep your hands/head/feet to yourself, and win the game, so you can rub his face in it afterwards.
I heard that Matarazzi said some vicious, hateful, rascist stuff to Zidane. So much for FIFA's anti-racism stance. He deserved that head butt.
Now who is that!
Anybody believes that, stand on your head.
In order to justify their stance on PC behavior they can't differentiate between verbal assault and physical assault. To them they are the same at least, and a lot of them FEEL that what you say is even worse than what you do, because it proves you are thinking of them as different, which shows the intolerance of the speaker. Anger is justified by the PC crowd, speaking harsh words has no defense.
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