Italians won the World Cup in disgrace…
Italians won the football World Cup 2006 by provoking their opponents and getting them to react and be sent off. At the final minutes against France, these Italian mobs managed to provoke Zidane to response and head butt the untalented Mr Marco Materazzi. Zidane was sent off and the Italians continued to win the match in penalty shoot out 5:3.
It was a sad end for the football icon of our generation, Zinedine Zidane. That was his last macth of his career…actually the last ten minutes of his outstanding career. A friend of mine asked me whether I think Zidane had done the right thing. He emphasized, “Is head butting your opponent right or wrong?”
I hesitate and do not want to say it is a wrong act simply because for most people wrong means unacceptable. But for me, yes it is wrong for Zidane to head butt Marco, BUT it is completely acceptable at that situation with how the events was unfolded as back drop.
I just wonder why Zidane use head. It hurts so little. He should use his fist on Marco’s face or foot smack right to Marco’s… 
Dave Zirin wrote it well, check the real issue here.
By the way, who is this Marco Matarazzi:
Dave Zirin: Right now, we do not know beyond a shadow of a doubt what was said but all the circumstantial evidence points at least toward a variant of SOS Racisme’s claim.
Zissou is the son of Algerian immigrants who has sparred verbally with Europe’s far-right political machine for more than a decade. He is an outspoken anti-racist on a team that has defined itself by its multiculturalism and stubborn insistence to stand up against bigotry both inside and outside the sport.
Materazzi on the other hand, will be playing this year for the Italian team Lazio, where his father was the former coach. Lazio’s fan club, The Ultras, are notorious for their Fascist-friendly politics. Lazio’s hardcore Ultras, known as the “Irriducibili,” have members in Italy’s extra-parliamentary far right and try to use the club to recruit. The group has frequently uses racist and anti-Semitic banners, one time hanging a 50-foot banner that said their opponents were a “team of niggers.”
It’s wrong to taint Materazzi for the actions of Lazio’s fans, but there is more. Earlier this season in a match that pitted Messina against Inter in Sicily, Messina’s star African player Marc Zoro famously picked up the ball and walked off the pitch in protest of the monkey chants rained upon him by Inter supporters.
In a stirring act of solidarity, many of the Inter players immediately showed support for Zoro’s actions. But one opponent yelled, “Stop that, Zoro, you’re just trying to make a name for yourself.” That opponent’s name was Marco Materazzi.
So we know we should never spend a penny on the club that Marco Materazzi joins. We will not watch Lazio matches. And Lazio sponsers will never get a penny from selling things to me.
And off course, for the tactics they deployed, Italians won the World Cup 2006 in disgrace. Though with different reason, I agree to what Dave’s asked the Italians to do, “Give the cup back to FIFA.”
Dave Zirin: Racism will be the death of soccer if things don’t change. Italy can set the sport back on course, with one simple, stunning gesture.
Give the damn thing back.