Personally, I know he is retiring, but FIFA should send a message to the soccer world and ban Zidane for life anyway. If they want to slap the Italian guy for being a provocateur, then so be it.
In other words, if you want to win, running around the field with an Israeli flag is not the way to do it....
Funny, I've heard from a few Euros, especially those of French extraction, that the Italians play a dirty game.
This is nonsense. The game is played with the same amount of ehtics and or histrionics by all the teams and players.
The Italians won it. They just won. Four years of bragging rights (esp from my Roman 'Azzurra' wife).
Canavarro was the best player in the tournament, not Zidane. I understand his defence of his honor, but don't feel he should be thrown any bone here. (No one cares that Matarrazzi talked some smack to him, nor whether he might have called Zidane a terrorist, which he assuredly has heard a thousand times before.
Just a note: Italians call everyone a terrorist. They lived with the Brigate Rosso long before many of us even had the word in our lexicons. I can hear my father in law screaming in tyhe car as he swerved side to side at 100 mph to the Ferrari that menaced and passed him in a shot "Guarda la terrorita!"
Life ain't easy for a boy named Blatter.
Viedo clip of Zidane's headbutt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc
I think a lot of the voting for this award was done before the end of the game and before he was sent off.