Marco Materazzi returns to Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt: bitter reflection
An episode that has affected his career: more than he would like.
Marco Materazzi returns to Zinedine Zidane and the famous headbutt that the France captain rifilò him in the chest in Berlin, during the final that graduated Italy world champions in Germany 2006. And the former Azzurri defender was frank about the importance that episode had then and how much it affected his career and generally his reputation over the years.
"That episode should never have happened, and I just don't like it. It doesn't do justice to the whole arc of my career,” Materazzi said during an interview granted to the 'Times' -We were playing the final in Berlin in a very tense atmosphere and, amid bickering and various insults, Zidane offered me his shirt. I told him no, explaining that I would have preferred his sister’s. At that point he turned around, reacting as everyone remembers. Since then I have never seen him again".
Another memorable moment in his career came in 2010, on the night his Inter won the Champions League against Bayern Munich. His hug to José Mourinho in tears at the end of the match went around the world. "He è was the best coach I ever had. I used to feel important as a captain, in his years I began to lose importance. But with me è he was always honest, from the first to the last moment. And if I think back to the locker room shared with Julio Cesar, Zanetti, Maicon, Figo, Milito, Sneijder, I feel a mixture of happiness and nostalgia. There's nothing I miss more,” Materazzi revealed.
