Former Italy defender Marco Materazzi has finally confirmed what he said to provoke Zinedine Zidane into headbutting him at ...

Former Inter and Italy defender Marco Materazzi had a fine career, including a Champions League winners medal and a World Cup winners medal, but will forever be remembered for the incident in the ...

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Marco Materazzi has offered to settle his feud with Zinedine Zidane 18 years after the Real Madrid and France legend headbutted the Italian at the 2006 FIFA World Cup final. Zindane's glorious ...

PARIS - 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 ...

Now, remarkably, the Zidane name could return to the World Cup spotlight in 2026. This time, however, it might not be the legendary playmaker himself, but his son, Luca Zidane, who steps onto soccer’s ...

As the start of the 2010 World Cup is now just a few anticipation and hype-soaked days away, talk of the most remembered moment of the 2006 World Cup — or, perhaps, any World Cup, for that matter — ...

From David Beckham's ejection during the 1998 World Cup and Diego Maradona's famous "Hand of God" goal in the 1986 World Cup to Zinedine Zidane's shocking headbutt in the 2006 World Cup final, here's ...

The reason the furor over French soccer star Zinedine Zidane’s head-butt in the World Cup final has reached such a fever pitch — especially since his televised interview Wednesday did little to clear ...

One of the game's greatest players, France's Zinedine Zidane, had the opportunity to write the perfect ending to a storybook career. Then the thin line between leaving as a champion and leaving as ...