Was Zidane's act justifiable?

[Diam'S]

I was sad and happy at the same time...
sad cz zizou carreer ended that way
happy because i dunno what his name is deserved it

[maven]

[maven]

[AliArz]

Originally Posted by kappa273

people...

u r imagining and thinking a lot....

what Zizou did was wrong... period....

let's not go into the mother, father, religion, racist thing...

do u think what happened between Frings and the argentinian player was also due to racism?

or the game between portugal and holland was also intense because the dutch are known to be racist....

this is the worldcup... players may be entering history.. this may be the most important game in any player's life...
tensions are high...

let's not find pretexts and explanations for zizou's wrong behavior...

what a shame!!!!
in front of 2 billion spectators...

kappa

Why?

People want to know what Materazzi said to Zidane, they said that racism may have been a factor for Zizou's action.

No one justified it, and from my part, I think my first post clearly denounced his actions.

However, people would be ignorant for blaming Zidane without asking the question: what happened in order for him to react this way?

If it was another player who has a bad reputation, then this is another story.

But right now, we are talking about a Zidane who did everything to end in a good note...especially on a Final game where he knows all are watching and where his parents decided to see him at the stadium for the second time of their life...

At the end, he left with a sad note...

What did it take for him to do that?...

I find it sad that many are criticising Zidane while people are applauding Italy for winning the World Cup when not many decided to condemn Materazzi's actions...only the French fans did.

Ali Arz

[AliArz]

Originally Posted by METALLICA

Isn't it sad we find the easy way out, blaming the obvious offense of Zidane's stupid headbutt, rightfully tag it unsportsmanlike, but wholly ignore whatever led to it because we couldn't hear it?
Zidane's known to have a short fuse and he's demonstrated it many times over.
I just hope whatever was said to him is made public, some of his teammates said Materazzi directed a racial slur to ZZ.
If you recall, the theme of this world cup: "say no to racism".
Due congratulations to Italy for their 4th WC title, but I hope Materazzi's name on the list of WC winners bears an asterisk.

Metallica is the only moderator at LFPM who knows what's going on and who is fair in moderating.

Chapeau-bas.

We need more people like you at LFPM.

Ali Arz

[Mey]

ZIdan's act was totally unjustifiable !!!!!

Its a shame to end his career like that and this will be a smear to be remembered all the time.

Now yes it did not come out of no where and Materazzi must have insulted him and I would not doubt at all that he used racist insults against him.

Materazzi is a well known Right-Wing Ultra in Italy, he supports the Fascists and is well known with his relationship with the Ultra groups in Italia. So yes I would not doubt he has insulted ZZ but again a player like Zidan, with all his expereince, in his final game, loses his temper like that ?

NO MATTER WHAT, we cannot justify it !

The Italian players always use such techniques to make the opponents do such mistakes and get carded, it happens all the time in Serie A but again your job is to go report this to the referee, but to lose your temper like that in the game ?

Shame ! You lost it, they lead you to it and you lost, sorry but its ZZ to blame in this case.

[Aounist05]

Originally Posted by Mey

ZIdan's act was totally unjustifiable !!!!!

Its a shame to end his career like that and this will be a smear to be remembered all the time.

Now yes it did not come out of no where and Materazzi must have insulted him and I would not doubt at all that he used racist insults against him.

Materazzi is a well known Right-Wing Ultra in Italy, he supports the Fascists and is well known with his relationship with the Ultra groups in Italia. So yes I would not doubt he has insulted ZZ but again a player like Zidan, with all his expereince, in his final game, loses his temper like that ?

NO MATTER WHAT, we cannot justify it !

The Italian players always use such techniques to make the opponents do such mistakes and get carded, it happens all the time in Serie A but again your job is to go report this to the referee, but to lose your temper like that in the game ?

Shame ! You lost it, they lead you to it and you lost, sorry but its ZZ to blame in this case.

I agree with you Mey.
Although I never supported the french team, but to be fair they should have won yesterday. Zidan reaction is unjustifiable, I understand that someone like Roony does that, but not a well experienced player like Zidan, who is playing the finals and the last match of his career....

[Chief]

It was not justifiable at all.

Maybe Zidane was provoqued by the italian player, but this is part of the game !!!

[LeXeU]

It is very sad to read all these posts! I started this thread by the intention of discussing sportsmanship and its limits... Here we go again we turn the thread into accusing each other with secterian, racist and all other slogans... Cant we just accept each other and not go personal in every single thread and discussion?
Is it possible to have anything in common between lebanese people? What is wrong with you people?
If AliArz was misunderstood or wanted to propose a point of view why do we have to paint him with black?
Let us get our act straight and discuss something without getting personal! It is about Zidane's act we are discussing, ya jame3a!!!! Shame on us!!!Big Shame!!!

[Orangina]

Zidane's act was not justifiable at all...

It was not professional, even if he was attacked by the italian player he shouldn't do what he has done.

But after all, he is still a human being "man menkom bila khati2a fal yarjoumhou bi awal hajar"