This is a disgrace - FIFA need to actually do something for a change.
You can't have players making slurs like this against a fellow pro.
From Soccernet: -
Since Sunday evening the whole world has been debating what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to Zinedine Zidane to make the retiring Frenchman react in the way he did. The French captain, in his last ever professional game, thrust his head into Materazzi's chest in Sunday's World Cup final resulting in a red card and eternal shame for Zidane. Today, with the help of Italian lip-reader Arturo Belladini, we can reveal what drove Zidane to self destruct.
Materazzi was seen to hold Zidane's shirt on the edge of the penalty
box in extra-time at which point Zidane said:
"If you want my shirt so bad you can have it."
Materazzi responded:
"I don't want your shirt you m***** f*****. You're a f****** old man."
As they jog away Zidane is seen to laugh at this.
Materazzi then hit a volley of abuse:
"You should've quit 2 years ago, you're a f****** has-been you m*****
f*****!
Your mum is a f****** Muslim terrorist and you are to, f***
you old man, f*** you."
Zidane still not that bothered carries on jogging away... and then the
explosive one liner from Materazzi that caused him to explode:
"You're only good enough for Tottenham now."
The rest, as they say, is history.
You can't have players making slurs like this against a fellow pro.
From Soccernet: -
Since Sunday evening the whole world has been debating what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to Zinedine Zidane to make the retiring Frenchman react in the way he did. The French captain, in his last ever professional game, thrust his head into Materazzi's chest in Sunday's World Cup final resulting in a red card and eternal shame for Zidane. Today, with the help of Italian lip-reader Arturo Belladini, we can reveal what drove Zidane to self destruct.
Materazzi was seen to hold Zidane's shirt on the edge of the penalty
box in extra-time at which point Zidane said:
"If you want my shirt so bad you can have it."
Materazzi responded:
"I don't want your shirt you m***** f*****. You're a f****** old man."
As they jog away Zidane is seen to laugh at this.
Materazzi then hit a volley of abuse:
"You should've quit 2 years ago, you're a f****** has-been you m*****
f*****!
Your mum is a f****** Muslim terrorist and you are to, f***
you old man, f*** you."
Zidane still not that bothered carries on jogging away... and then the
explosive one liner from Materazzi that caused him to explode:
"You're only good enough for Tottenham now."
The rest, as they say, is history.
