The year 2006 will always be fondly remembered as the year when a Frenchman head-butted an Italian during a World Cup final. It even outshines Australia’s performance. Hehe.
THE soccer World Cup and Australia’s success in reaching the final 16 were the biggest sports stories of 2006, according to a poll of the nation’s sports editors.
Test captain Ricky Ponting was voted Australian sportsman of the year over US Open golf champion Geoff Ogilvy while basketballer Lauren Jackson was voted sportswoman of the year ahead of breaststroke champion Leisel Jones.
But it was the World Cup, particularly Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt which helped Italy to win the tournament and the Socceroos’ come-from-behind 3-1 win over Japan, that sports editors voted the best international and Australian sports stories of the year.
Zidane’s headbutt was described as “a crazy moment from one of the biggest stars in world sport in the biggest match of the year” by one sports editor.
Another said it was “one of the great brain snaps of all time, generated enormous interest and sparked a media race to find out exactly what set him off”.
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