Eighteen years later, the episode is still talked about just as much. But the two main protagonists of this incident have never discussed it yet. Eighteen years after the headbutt received from Zinedine Zidane during the 2006 World Cup final, Marco Materazzi would however like to speak with the French playmaker of the episode.
“I’m not trying to apologize anymore but I would be happy to have a conversation with him now that so many years have passed. There would be no problem”he confided to Lucky Block, before saying all the good things he thought of the French playmaker, whom he knew well having encountered him several times on the Serie A pitches when ZZ was playing. at Juventus Turin.
Zinedine Zidane is not about to answer him…
“ I haven’t spoken to Zinedine Zidane since that day, I had never spoken to him before and I didn’t speak to him after. We don’t have a relationship. He is a football legend and I have a lot of respect for him as a player and as a coach, who has won three Champions Leagues in a row,” he whispered. Not sure, however, that the Marseillais will be receptive to the invitation from his executioner in 2006.
This is evidenced by the recent comments made by his friend Christophe Dugarry about Marco Materazzi. “Zidane will not forgive him. Why would he forgive him? Materazzi has been advertising this for years. He laughs about it, he brags about having succeeded in getting Zidane to unpin him. Materazzi has spent his entire career punching and doing stupid things on the field. He is world champion, he has done incredible things. But in his interviews, he always talks about Zizou while Zizou never talks about him”he said, adding about a possible reunion between the two men: “He can wait until the end of his days. Zizou doesn’t give a damn about Materazzi while Materazzi is always talking about him. The number of people who promote themselves by speaking on Zizou… Zizou never speaks. Materazzi, shut up!”
