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The sculpture depicts an incident that took place in the 110th minute of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final between France and Italy, [2] when Zinedine Zidane headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the chest after Materazzi had verbally provoked him. [3] Zidane consequently received a red card and was sent off. France lost the match, which ...
It was released as a one-song CD on 20 July and reached number one on the French charts on 2 August, supplanting "Zidane y va marquer". [3] As of July 2014, it is the 82nd best-selling single of the 21st century in France, with 334,000 units sold. [4] There is also a Spanish version of the song. The CD single was released on 28 July 2006, while ...
The match was focused mostly on France's Zinedine Zidane and Italy's Marco Materazzi: this was the last match of Zidane's career; they each scored their team's only goal of the game; and they were also involved in an incident in extra time that led to Zidane being sent off for head-butting Materazzi in the chest. The incident was the subject of ...
In 2012, French-Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed unveiled a bronze sculpture depicting Zidane's headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup Final. [232] On 5 November 2006, Zidane appeared in the American animated sitcom Family Guy, seen headbutting an old lady in the episode "Saving Private Brian" as a parody of his headbutt on Materazzi ...
Headbutt - Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi: Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (2012-2013) Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar (2013-) 2012 Adel Abdessemed [68] Nat Lofthouse: Reebok Stadium, Bolton: 2013 Sean Hedges-Quinn [69] Roy Sproson: Vale Park, Port Vale: 2012 Mike Talbot [70] [71] Arthur Wharton: St George's Park National Football ...
A headbutt or butt [1] is a targeted strike with the head, typically involving the use of robust parts of the headbutter's cranium as the area of impact. The most effective headbutts strike the most sensitive areas of an opponent, such as the nose , using the stronger bones in the forehead ( frontal bone ) or the back of the skull ( occipital ...
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His 2006 book La Mélancolie de Zidane [10] (2006) is a lyrical essay on the French football player Zinedine Zidane's headbutting of the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. Toussaint lived in Berlin at the time and was at the game. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New ...