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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 ...
By 12 July Warner Music won the bidding war to license the song. [2] 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]
A sequence showing Zidane headbutting Materazzi and being sent off. After video evidence suggested that Materazzi had verbally provoked Zidane into the headbutt, The Times, The Sun and the Daily Star claimed to have hired lip readers to determine what Materazzi had said, with all three newspapers claiming that Materazzi called Zidane "the son ...
Marco Materazzi Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmarko mateˈrattsi]; born 19 August 1973) is an Italian former professional footballer and manager.. Early in his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Everton in the Premier League.
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 ...
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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 ...
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.