2006 FIFA World Cup

by **Brent Burns** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:08 am

Just found out that Zinedine Zidane was voted adidas Golden Ball winner despite being sent off the pitch with a red-card. Guess the votes were tabulated before the incident. The link below noted the journalists voted for the best player of the tournament. Look at the vote difference between Zidane and Caravanos from Italy.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2084790,00.html

There are several brief interesting headlines from several newspapers mostly in France about Zizou:

http://wc2006.telegraph.co.uk/Document.aspx?id=026E4ECE-25A8-43B5-9AF4-F14A180ED0A9

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by **JosueSays** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:15 am

Come on guys... he scored 2 goals (the only ones) against Brazil to win the 1998 World Cup... The head butt will not tarnish his legacy.

by **sohotrightnow** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:34 am

Not to nitpick but it was 3-0 France in the 1998 Final.

by **CATLAX MAN** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:24 pm

JosueSays wrote:Come on guys... he scored 2 goals (the only ones) against Brazil to win the 1998 World Cup... The head butt will not tarnish his legacy.

Not true. The only thing that people will remember .. . . . . .because the media will not allow any other result . . .. . . .will be the head butt.

by **Brent Burns** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:34 pm

Franz Beckenbauer and his group and Germany did a marvelous job of getting everything ready for 2006 World Cup once the 2002 World Cup Korea/Japan was over. The highs and lows (including the Zindane infamous headbutt- sadly, but true because everyone will remember this small one) will be discussed.

On to South Africa in 2010:

http://www.southafrica2010.org

This is the official website now, and from what I've read, they have 3 stadiums ready with 5 others will be renovated and refubrished. The last 5 will need to be built. If I recall from what I recently read from other sources, FIFA settled on South Africa after checking out Egypt, Tunisia (I think), Morocco and Libya. It seemed that the FIFA group started their visits in 2003 and concluded their choice sometime in 2004.

http://www.southafrica.info/2010/fifareport.htm

Speaking of stadiums, the report stated that South Africa submitted 13 stadiums, and I read somewhere that FIFA wanted 8. As of last year, it appears that the person in charge of the South Africa World Cup Organizing Committee said that they may have 10 stadiums. Of course, nothing is definite yet.

I have not found out where the 2010 World Cup final would take place in either Johannesburg or Cape Town.

by **jessexy** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:39 pm

it seems that Materrazi called him a "terrorist" and Zizou took offense to it.

FYI, Zidane is a French citizen, but he is also a Muslim of Morrocan descent. we all know that Northern Africans have a lot of similarities with Arabs and have a history of being stereotyped as terrorists because of Lybia and some Algerian separatist groups.

well, maybe we dont all know that......

by **sohotrightnow** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:58 pm

Algerian descent actually. His parents are Kayble Algerian.

by **bste_lax** on Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:15 pm

Head-butt like Zidane:

http://tonaz.altervista.org/zidane.html

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:36 am

Just saw this editoon from USA Today, and I googled Stahler and found this one from www.comics.com (the editoon below is courtesy of Jeff Stahler as of 2006):

There are already some T-shirts with Zidane cropping up on the Internet.

Zidane is supposed to be on a French TV show tonight. He is probably on that show right now.

by **horn17** on Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:30 pm

Fox sports also reports....

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5778880

Explanation why above....

and also...

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5776646

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:55 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc

coup de boule in French means head-butt.

by **laxfan25** on Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:39 am

Brent Burns wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc

coup de boule in French means head-butt.

and pourquoi means Why.
As the announcer is saying at the end - Why? Why? Unspoken is "you stupid idiot!"

The great irony of the whole thing is that Zidane was given the Player of the Cup award - voting obviously took place before the coup de boule.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:14 am

Just read that FIFA handed down punishments and fines to Zidane and Materazzi:

Zidane- 3-match ban and fine (7,500 Swiss Francs ($6,000) for head-butting. However, Zidane will do 3 days of community service for FIFA by working with children and youth. Zidane continues to insist that he will not reverse his decision to retire from soccer.

Materazzi- 2-match ban and fine (5,000 Swiss Francs ($4,000) for provoking Zizou.

Interestingly, there is no mention of taking away Zidane's Golden Ball award.

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