Zidane, Zidane, Zidane...ugh...
I thought France played the game they had to play to beat Italy. I was never very optimistic that they would win...but I was thrilled to see how much skill and pluck the French team showed the whole way through...in the second half and into the overtimes, they played like a team that deserved to win...missing only the finish that would bring victory...
However, we can't not talk about it...after scoring another great penalty and burning the image, the world over, of an old man young enough to scorch a header on goal...Zinedine Zidane snapped.
That head butt was shameful. It was "thought out." It was onscreen when hundreds of millions of kids could watch it.
No matter what the Italian said or did, that kind of premeditated foul is...foul. Hell, even, let's say that Materazzi used some truly wicked insult...using violence to respond to that insult only gives power to the insulter, power to the abuser.
Clear red card. Moment of extreme drama. For us fans of Zidane, a moment of truth.
Soccer, at once a sport with real problems in the "outcome" department...once again proves that it can't be beat in the spectacle department.
Zidane le fou. A new french myth born and reforged before a billion eyes.
My thoughts are for his teammates. They did all they could to deliver the win.
Had they won, nothing they would have done could have redeemed the disgrace.
Only Zidane can do that.
It will be his choice. Perhaps the shy man will overcome one last challenge, and apologize.
tags: zidane
However, we can't not talk about it...after scoring another great penalty and burning the image, the world over, of an old man young enough to scorch a header on goal...Zinedine Zidane snapped.
That head butt was shameful. It was "thought out." It was onscreen when hundreds of millions of kids could watch it.
No matter what the Italian said or did, that kind of premeditated foul is...foul. Hell, even, let's say that Materazzi used some truly wicked insult...using violence to respond to that insult only gives power to the insulter, power to the abuser.
Clear red card. Moment of extreme drama. For us fans of Zidane, a moment of truth.
Soccer, at once a sport with real problems in the "outcome" department...once again proves that it can't be beat in the spectacle department.
Zidane le fou. A new french myth born and reforged before a billion eyes.
My thoughts are for his teammates. They did all they could to deliver the win.
Had they won, nothing they would have done could have redeemed the disgrace.
Only Zidane can do that.
It will be his choice. Perhaps the shy man will overcome one last challenge, and apologize.
tags: zidane
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