Jeff Rusnak gives an interesting take on how he defines 2006.
My view is the trigger inside Zidane was set off by goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon’s inspired save of Zizou’s potentially game-winning header just moments before. Zidane had a history of on-field outbursts and knowing that his and France’s best chance of claiming a second World Cup had been denied may have set the blood boiling. Materazzi’s taunt simply caused the top to blow.
So maybe the last word on the World Cup and 2006 should be “Buffon,” for without his leaping, one-handed save in overtime, Materazzi’s insult might have been ignored, France would be world champion again, and Zidane would be memorialized instead as “immortal” and “beloved.”
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