So close
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Zidane was meant to go out on another high, the hero, and after the first ten minutes it looked like it might turn like France dreamt it would.
Unfortunately, as the game got deeper into the second half and extratime it looked more and more like penalties, then Zidane lost it.
Nobody know’s what Materazzi said but he obviously knows the right button to press to get a reaction from Zidane, who didn’t hold back at all with his butt.
Whatever the provocation you can’t get away from the fact that Zizou let his team down at a vital moment.
He’s getting support from everyone from Jacques Chirac to Raymond Domenech and the players.
William Gallas said about Materazzi ‘when I see this, I want to smash his face’.
David Trezeguet said Zidane ‘can leave with his head held high. The other one (Materazzi), even if he has won the cup, cannot.’ No doubt who the French players think is the villain in this one.
Domenech was a bit more philosophical saying ‘it was too bad, a totally useless gesture. We regret it and he also regrets it.’ Chirac said Zidane still represented the best of France.
The French squad would probably want to go away and forget the Final for a while but strangely there’s a parade been arranged for them on the Champs Elysees today which Domenech is not happy about. ‘If it was me who decided, we wouldn’t have one’ he said understandably.
Overall, France can look back in a few months time and be proud of getting all the way to the final even if in the end things went sour.
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