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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:02 pm
by MKJ
first you insinuate he didnt 'help' the team much since he didnt socre for 75 minutus, then you claim he carried france to the finals.
what?
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:04 pm
by losCHUNK
nah, point i was making was wether he wouldve stayed on i couldnt see him making much of a diff
but, i do not intend to insult him as he as a great player
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:11 pm
by tnf
and I'm not saying he should have butted him for what the guy said...someone might deserve a good headbutting, but when you are your teams leader its sheer idiocy to pull that shit off in the closing minutes of a game that big. talk is part of the game.
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:53 pm
by Dr_Watson
its bad form when you're the captain of the team and have younger guys looking up to you.
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:02 pm
by tnf
I coach my golf team to call the other players mothers terrorist whores and whatnot. I don't see the problem.
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:21 pm
by chopov
I do see a problem in this: it's plain tasteless and has nothing to do with sports. My opinion.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:25 pm
by Deji
Okay, so Italy netted all the penalties, but with the exception of Trezeguet's very near miss (1-2cm lower and it would have bounced in like Zidane's penalty), the French hit their penalties in aswell.
I don't see why Italy was "going to win anyway."
They won by 2cm, literally.
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:57 pm
by Dr_Watson
2cm and a bad offside call.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:11 am
by mjrpes
So my only question is... why did Zidane headbutt the guy? Why not just punch him in the face? Is a headbutt a more effective pain inducer... or something?
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:34 am
by Dr_Watson
have you seen his scrawny chicken wings?
+ he's been a footballer his whole life, he probably can get some wicked power behind that skull. throw in the hardness of the crown of a skull, and you've got a pretty good weapon.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:32 am
by Eraser
LOL
http://medievalzidane.ytmnd.com/
Verily I bestow upon ye a crimson scroll!
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 7:38 am
by Massive Quasars
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:07 am
by diego
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:he's was the best player in most people's opinions including mine, 'zall i'm saying. all this crap about what the Italian guy was saying is pure speculation too, so what.
Until it actually can be proven, Italy stays Champion. Undeserved.
Calling somebody's mother a terrorist whore on a soccer field is tasteless and reeks of idiocy. It proves that italian soccer is acting on every level possible. What a bad team they are and I am laughing at Juventus being at least in the 2nd division.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:10 am
by Fjoggs
Trezeguet (w/e spelling) would have missed the penalty regardless of Zidane netting the one he was to take.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:15 am
by Captain
Fun thing is I called the PK shots with about an 80% accuracy rate. I knew Trezeguet would miss
He always buckles under pressure anyways.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:24 am
by Eraser
Fjoggs wrote:Trezeguet (w/e spelling) would have missed the penalty regardless of Zidane netting the one he was to take.
No because if Zidane stayed in the game, he would've activated his super football powers in the last minute and solo-ed the ball from the middle line right into the 16 meter and scored it.
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:25 am
by Massive Quasars
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:48 am
by Ryoki
It's certainly smile-worthy
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:47 pm
by Fjoggs
Eraser wrote:Fjoggs wrote:Trezeguet (w/e spelling) would have missed the penalty regardless of Zidane netting the one he was to take.
No because if Zidane stayed in the game, he would've activated his super football powers in the last minute and solo-ed the ball from the middle line right into the 16 meter and scored it.
o rite, i forgot about powerups
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:13 pm
by saturn
heh "a new way to solve problems", i'm gonna headbutt a lot of patients tomorrow
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:46 pm
by diego
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:36 am
by +JuggerNaut+
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:37 am
by vesp
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:40 am
by LawL
Just heard on the radio that Zidane is finally talking about the incident publicly.
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:48 am
by Don Carlos
Interviewer: You know the Italian players well because you played in Italy for five years. Did you have any problem with any of them beforehand?
Zinedine Zidane: Not at all. You always have friction with certain players...that is the game, it has always been like that. But I never had any clashes with anyone.
Interviewer: Nor Materazzi?
Zinedine Zidane: No, never. There was nothing beforehand and nothing in the match until he started pulling my jersey.
He grabbed my shirt and I told him to stop. I told him if he wanted I'd swap it with him at the end of the match.
That is when he said some very hard words, which were harder than gestures. He repeated them several times. It all happened very quickly and he spoke about things which hurt me deep down.
Interviewer: Everyone wants to know exactly what he said...
Zinedine Zidane: They were very serious things, very personal things.
Interviewer: About your mother and your sister?
Zinedine Zidane: Yes. They were very hard words. You hear them once and you try to move away.
But then you hear them twice, and then a third time... I am a man and some words are harder to hear than actions. I would rather have taken a blow to the face than hear that.
Interviewer: He said these things about your mother and sister two or three times?
Zinedine Zidane: Yes. I reacted and of course it is not a gesture you should do. I must say that strongly.
It was seen by two or three billion people watching on television and millions and millions of children.
It was an inexcusable gesture and to them, and the people in education whose job it is to show children what they should and shouldn't do, I want to apologise.
Interviewer: You apologise to them but do you really regret having done it?
Zinedine Zidane: I can't regret it because if I do it would be like admitting that he was right to say all that. And above all, it was not right.
We always talk about the reaction, and inevitably it must be punished. But if there is no provocation, there is no reaction.
First of all you have to say there is provocation, and the guilty one is the one who does the provoking. The response is to always punish the reaction, but if I react, something has happened.
Do you imagine that in a World Cup final like that, with just 10 minutes to go to the end of my career, I am going to do something like that because it gives me pleasure?
Interviewer: No of course not. But at the moment you exploded...
Zinedine Zidane: There was provocation, and it was very serious, that is all. My action was inexcusable but you have to punish the real culprit, and the real culprit is the one who provoked it. Voila.
