"I apologize to all the children" who watched the match Sunday, Zidane said in his first comments about the act of violence that marked the end of his career.
Zidane did not specify exactly what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said that enraged him, but that it was insulting to his sister and mother.
Pretty weak considering he waited 3 full days before talking to the media...
Here's a report from the BBC which used an Italian lip reader to discern what Marco Materazzi said to Zidane:
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Any else notice the delay between the head butt and the red card as abnormally long? As if the ref hadn't seen it, but was later told about it and so issued the red? It seems like a French lawyer wants a court to investigate those mysteriously long few seconds.
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at July 13, 2006 03:29 PM
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