So The Drama

World Cup Drama

which brings us to question ...

Marco Materazzi

Italian defender

World Cup 2006 Hero

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versus

Zenedine Zidane

French legend & Best Player of World Cup 2006

Seeing as I'm not that great a football fan (especially since I stopped watching the games after South Korea got booted out), I didn't watch the France vs. Italy World Cup Finals last night (or rather, this morning). So when Daddy called in the wee hours of the morning to tell me & my mum that Italy won, I was like, "Hehe cool, must celebrate with pizza later" ... etc etc stuff like that.

Then, when I got to college this morning, everyone was cheering for Italy. But then I said, "Pity France didn't win, though, Zidane is really good..." and I got bombarded with "Zidane was brutal" & "Zidane head-butted the Italian player!"... and despite how much I fancied good ol' Zizou during the 2002 World Cup games, after being fed with anti-Zidane propaganda from 8am to 3pm, I went home feeling like Zidane was really out of line, and therefore deserved to be sent off.

But then - my mum told me some insightful news when I got home. The Italian defender, Marco Materazzi, whom Zidane had head-butted & given a red card for, had his arms around Zidane to hold him back. What a bugger! And even then, my man Zidane had the integrity to walk away ... then Materazzi followed behind him, saying stuff & next thing you know, Zidane had rammed his shiny head against the Italian player.

Some people say that's why it's a game, and the last one standing is the one who wins. Others say that Zidane did the right thing by head-butting the Italian player & that he should have head-butted him harder. I think that what Materazzi did was a disgrace to the Italian football team! It's supposed to be a game, where the best man wins. And although, maybe a better man could have still walked away without losing his temper, Zidane is pretty famous for a hot temper (not being his first time head-butting people on the field) & Materazzi simply took advantage of that.

Therefore... poor Zidane! This year's World Cup should have belonged to France! ):