Victim of Zinédine Zidane’s header during the 2006 World Cup final, former Italian defender Marco Materazzi would like to exchange with the 1998 Ballon d’Or. In any case, this is what he revealed in an interview granted to journalist Liam Salomon this Sunday, November 24.
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Victim of Zinédine Zidane’s header during the 2006 World Cup final, former Italian defender Marco Materazzi would like to exchange with the 1998 Golden Ball. | PHOTO : ARCHIVE JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP
Marco Materazzi doesn’t hold grudges. Once the most hated man in France for having pushed Zinédine Zidane to the limit one evening in July 2006 in Berlin in the World Cup final, he offered to meet him to bury the hatchet 18 years after receiving a blow ball from “Zizou”, which earned him an expulsion for the last match of his career. “I’m not trying to apologize anymore but I would be happy to have a conversation with him now that so many years have passed. There would be no problem”declared the former National defender in an interview with journalist Liam Salomon this Sunday, November 24.
“We don’t have a relationship.”
Author of the equalizer in the final won by Italy on penalties, Materazzi has never spoken to Zidane since that evening. “We don’t have a relationship.”he assures while wanting to ease tensions.
