Nice header by Zidane!

What the hell was he thinking!?!?!

looks at the page header ??

searched... ah

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1679887.htm

LaBomba wrote:

What the hell was he thinking!?!?!

I dunno. Its terrible. What a way to go out.

I'm going to remember this world cup for all the wrong reasons. [C]

I remember he was suspended for a couple matches from France '98 for dragging his cleats on a player...

he still hasn't learned, let the anger get the best of him.

I dunno why you would take out thierre henry that late, you'd rather have him taking penalties than sending in a guy cold like that. Trezeguet who had no playing time and was consumed by the pressure.

Ah well, Italy wins.

I can't condone what he did, but that hit was spectaculary executed.

 

ScanIAm wrote:



I can't condone what he did, but that hit was spectaculary executed.

 

No kidding.

We had to rewind it a few times out of disbelief.

Edit: I wonder what the Italian player said to Zidane that caused the "header"

The italian player did his job of getting under Zidane's skin, and that was the end result.

Zidane, wasn't going to have much more of that, so he let him have hit! I agree a terrificly executed headbutt.

He is pretty good at headers..

There's a few folks on digg that said it was cause Materazzi gave him a nipple pinch and was insulting his mother, etc.  Don't know how credible it is but you can see some mischief by Materazzi in the very beginning of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C58zxHgo8Y . I don't think anyone honestly feels it was unprovoked but it may have been more than just words from the other guy.