Three weeks after France’s World Cup final soccer defeat, the song inspired by captain Zinedine Zidane’s fateful head-butt on Italy defender Marco Materazzi has hit number one in the nation’s singles chart. This sure beats whatever rhinoplasty Toronto can dish out.
“As of today, it’s No. 1 in the French charts. It has had an exceptional start, better than we could ever have hoped for,” said Thierry Chassagne, president of Warner Music France, which distributes the song.
Coup de Boule, the French for “head-butt”, was written by the three associates of Plage Records, a small label specializing in jingles and sound effects, the day after France’s July 9 defeat in Berlin.
Zidane, one of the finest footballers of his generation, was sent off for head-butting Materazzi after exchanging comments with the Italian defender in extra time with the score at 1-1. Italy won the final after a penalty shoot-out.
Missed the birthday date by a few days (let’s just say that we had a crisis with the monitor during that time) but is it not amazing that two football stars, Patrick Viera and Zinedine Zidane share the same birthday date (23rd June)?
Various faces of Zinedine Zidane. Its quite a funny video actually, I am sure that fans will enjoy it. At least they didn’t show him going for a Miami botox. LOL.
Celebrity pictures, they have as well. This is a blog that I came across recently which talks about Hollywood celebrities and celebrity news. Frankly I would prefer to see football stars in all their photographic glory but I just thought I’d mention this blog here because I find it interesting. Before this I was not really interested to know who is Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan or Anne Hathaway but these names keep cropping up all the time. So I decided to read up a little and now know a little bit more about them.
I guess you can say that celebrities — whether they are actresses or football stars — do share a common trait after all, and that is they are always in the limelight, no matter what they do.
