Well, talk about being creative. Looks like some people are still taking advantage of the head-connecting rammer. LOL.
An Italian fashion designer has put out a range of leisurewear infiltrated of Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt on Marco Materazzi in this year’s World Cup final.
The logo on Alessandro Ferrari’s new line of t-shirts and fleeces features a man headbutting another man.
The two figures are set beside a target symbol made up of the colours of the French and Italian flags, signifying the coming together of the two nations after the final.
“The idea came to me on a wave of emotion after Italy won the World Cup,” Ferrari was quoted as saying by Italian news agency Fidest.
“After Zidane’s headbutt on Materazzi I thought of turning that unsavoury act into a positive social message aimed at the youngsters, and at the same time offering a trendy product of high quality.
An interesting opinion on the choice of Cannavaro as the FIFA World Player of the Year 2006.
Italian Fabio Cannavaro became the first defender to ever capture the FIFA World Player of the Year award recently.
The honor is usually reserved for a dynamic striker who has made a habit of hitting the back of the net, or a dazzling playmaker in the midfield who blends both creativity and an all-around game to make his team better. Every once in a while, an incredible year between the posts will earn a deserving netminder a nomination as a finalist for the hardware, but not a defender.
I wouldn’t have picked Cannavaro, but I understand.
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (born 23 June 1972 in Marseille, France), popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a former French football player of Kabyle ethnicity, whose parents immigrated to France from Algeria. Zidane starred for both the French national team and four European club teams, concluding with Real Madrid, during an eighteen-year career in which he was listed as one of the greatest players in football history.
In the 1998 World Cup final, Zidane attracted international attention with two headed goals against Brazil that won his country’s first ever FIFA World Cup title. He contributed to his teams’ victories in the Euro 2000, the UEFA Champions League, and domestic championships in Italy and Spain.
Zidane was elected FIFA World Player of the Year a record-equalling three times (1998, 2000, 2003) and was named European Footballer of the Year in 1998. The world-record fee of € 66 million for his transfer to Real Madrid in 2001 remains unparalleled. In 2004, he topped the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll on Best European football player of the past 50 years, and was included in the FIFA 100, Pelé’s list of the 125 greatest living footballers. At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he played an inspiring role in his team’s advancement to the final and was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament, receiving the Golden Ball, although he was sent off in the final game.
Continue reading ‘Zidane in brief’
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Zidane headbutting in a Final Fantasy game interface setting. Wacky!
What provoked Zidane into head-butting Italian defender, Marco Materazzi, in what was his final match as a professional footballer in the World Cup? The Daily Mail believes that it has the answer:
It is the question on every football fan’s lips. What did the Italian footballer say to prompt Zinedine Zidane’s shocking headbutt in the closing moments of Sunday’s World Cup final?
The answer, it has emerged, was a vile stream of racial and personal abuse.
The full story can be read here.
And of course Zidane’s story is in the rankings, at position no 2. What a way to end a career 
No. 2: Zi-Damn! What did Italian defender Marco Materazzi say to provoke French captain and soccer icon Zinedine Zidane to deliver that fateful if impressive head butt in the waning minutes of the World Cup Final? Speculation ran rampant following the Azzurri’s penalty kick win. Some insisted Materazzi went racist, linking Zizou’s Algerian heritage to terrorism. “I did not call him a terrorist,” said Materazzi. “I don’t even know what the word means.” Zidane would say only that Materazzi had insulted his mother and sister.
Not so, countered the Italian: “I lost my mother when I was 15, and even now I still get emotional talking about her.” There were even rumblings about a nipple twist! Zidane eventually owned up to letting his teammates down. Sort of: “I apologize. But I can’t regret what I did because it would mean that he was right to say all that.” While the “experts” were busy reading lips (their best guesses are at right), Materazzi copped to insulting Zidane’s sister, then lost no time cashing in, publishing What I Actually Told Zidane, a cheeky list of 249 possibilities that lets readers guess the true zinger. Our favorite: “Since Foucault died, French philosophy has sucked.” Touche!