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| France's soccer team captain Zinedine
Zidane takes part in a television interview in Paris, July 12, 2006, in
which he explained his head-butt on Italy defender Marco Materazzi during
the July 9, 2006 final of the soccer World
Cup.(Photo:CCTV) |
Zidane: Materazzi insults my mother &
sister
BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhuanet) -- French soccer star
Zinedine Zidane apologized for head-butting an Italian opponent during the World
Cup final, saying Wednesday that he was provoked by harsh insults about his
mother and sister.
"He (Materazzi) pronounced very tough words about my
mother and my sister. I tried not to listen to him but he kept repeating them,"
the 34-year-old midfielder said in an interview with television channel Canal
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