Do u think zadine should loose the Golder Ball?

FIFA president Sepp Blatter warned on Wednesday red card-shamed Zinedine Zidane may lose his Golden Ball award. The France number ten was named the 2006 tournament's best player in a vote by media held before he was sent off for a headbutt in Sunday's final.





And with a FIFA disciplinary probe into the incident ongoing, Blatter admitted retroactive action could be taken to strip Zidane of the award.





"FIFA's executive committee has the right and duty to intervene when it sees behaviour that is contrary to sports ethics," Blatter said.





But he added: "Before we make any decision we have to await the outcome of the investigation. Being presumed innocent until


proven otherwise is sacred principle."





http://www.eurosport.com/football/worldc...

Do u think zadine should loose the Golder Ball?
Absolutely not. Zidane is an outstanding player. The award rewards skill and value to team not sportsmanship. I hear Zidane has done something like this several times in the past, thus the voters knew there was that possibility and knew he had already done something extremely regrettable. They voted him in anyway. I think he deserves it, who else played as well as he did?








And I've heard so many stupid Sepp Blatter quotes; he must really have no idea what he is doing. This guy, based on his quotes I've heard so far is not fit to run FIFA, and obviously has no idea what the referee rulebook says. He seems to be trying to be popular and is playing politics more that trying to be fair and just.
Reply:no, he deserved the award, for his amazing skills during the wc06 and besides the award does not consists of judging upon their actions they did or not (ex. headbutt)
Reply:The 2006 World Cup final will be remembered more for a headbutt than the fact Italy won the world's most desirable sporting prize for the fourth time, press reports suggested Tuesday.


Two days after Italy beat France in a penalty shootout in Berlin, few commentators spared a thought for the winners.





Instead they pondered what could have driven the iconic Zinedine Zidane, with the score deadlocked at 1-1, to charge Italian defender Marco Materazzi's and be sent off after 110 minutes of gruelling play.





The Italian has denied calling the Frenchman a terrorist, saying he didn't even know what the word meant, while Zidane's agent has said he will wait a few days before commenting.





The media on Tuesday attempted to fill in the blanks, with British newspapers claiming video analysis suggested the French captain retaliated to insults from the notorious Inter Milan hardman.





The Times reported that expert lip reader Jessica Rees, after exhaustive study of the match video, had deduced Materazzi called Zidane "The son of a terrorist whore", adding: "So just f*** off".





Lip readers for The Daily Mail and The Sun came to the same conclusion, pointing out the remarks would have enraged the Marseille-born Zidane, whose parents are Algerian and who has often expressed pride in his Berber origins.





The controversy dominated headlines in Algeria, where people had followed the World Cup exploits of the resurgent French squad with as much excitement as if it were their own national team.





While the consensus there was that whatever Materazzi said, Zidane's reaction was unforgivable, editorialists in neighbouring Tunisia were more sympathetic.





Le Temps suggested the Italian had been racist, concluding: "If one day history has the courage to condemn Materazzi it will find in favour of this magician of the round ball without whom France would never have won the World Cup."





Newspapers in Germany and Spain also turned their attention to the Italian defender while falling short of an outright pardon for his adversary.





"The whole nation wonders why, the whole world speculates over the provocation of Materazzi," said Der Tagesspiegel.





Popular daily Bild published a huge photograph of the now-famous blow, declaring "Football's God has brought himself to Earth and landed in hell", while Die Welt evoked "the sporting suicide of a genius."





"He insulted his mother and called him a terrorist," ran the headline in Spanish sports daily Marca, adding that Zidane often concluded recent interviews with the words, "I love you, Mum."





Yet the newspaper said neither player could be excused and called on them to bury the hatchet.





El Pais recalled that Zidane had been sent off 14 times in his career, including a five-match ban for headbutting SV Hamburg's Jochen Kientz in October 2000 and as recently as April 2005 for attempting to punch Villarreal defender Quique Alvarez.





"Never has a player wrecked a life's work in such an idiotic way," thundered right-wing Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet, while Bulgaria's 24 Hours declared that two heads, those of Zidane and Materazzi, who headed home Italy's equalising goal, had decided the 18th World Cup.





The mystery also dominated the front pages of newspapers in football-mad Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation where millions, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, followed the televised matches despite the time difference.





"What happened to Zidane?" asked daily Pikiran Rakiat while Rakyat Merdeka likened him to a charging bull.





Meanwhile, the strongest sign of a rereading of the master's dramatic final act on a football field was to be found in Russia.





Daily Novye Izvestia suggested the Italians connived to have Zidane banished from the arena while Sovietskii Sport deemed that "Materazzi's provocation" had tainted his country's victory.





"If anyone had any doubts about the fact that Zidane was one of the best players in the history of football, they wouldn't after the final," said popular daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.





"Only an epic hero, a Titan, a Hercules could leave like that."





Published : July 11, 2006
Reply:yeah but its the golden ball luv not golder
Reply:if zidane were to loose the Award, will there be a rematch???? Maybe without zidane and materazzi..... a rematch without them....
Reply:This type of behaviour is not acceptable under any circunstances.





Nobody should ignore that Zadine is know for his violent temper. He has done the head-butt before. He is an spoiled, unprofessional and violent character. He might be talented but the sportmanship must be required to receive the golden ball.





The following quote comes from:


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...





"There were reminders that Zidane has a dark side. In the Portugal game he was warned for diving and was lucky to escape a yellow card. He once had a reputation for sudden and shocking violence, most notably when he head-butted Jochen Kientz of Hamburg during a Champions League match in 2000, earning him a five-match suspension.





“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or a demon,” observed the rock singer Jean-Louis Murat. “He smiles like St Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”





Another quote from:


http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_40294...





He famously stamped on Saudi Arabia's Faoud Amin at





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the 1998 World Cup, picking up a two-game suspension - the Berber community applauded his "revenge" on the evil Arab "extemists."


And he head-butted Hamburger SV's Jochen Kientz in a UEFA Champions League game when he played for Juventus, drawing a five-game ban.





Anothere quote from





"There is a history of violent conduct - it's not the first time he has been expelled, it has happened many times before."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football...
Reply:To those people who say they shouldn't strip him of the golden ball because he is a great player and has had 10 years of so-called "greatness".....let it be clear that the golden ball is awardd to the best player of the 2006 WFC Tournament and NOT for the past performances. Therefore Zidane was NOT the best player of Germany 2006 because he showed awful sportsmanship and displayed a barbric move regardless of what was said to him by Materazzi. I would love to see FIFA over-turn their decision and hand the Golden Ball to Cannavaro, who demonstrated what a true captain should be like. But I highly suspect that won't happen and FIFA will somehow pretend as nothing occured......
Reply:no i dont this so...


i think his conduct was bad at only last min of closing of world cup. just check his conduct on the complete world cup.. it was excellent





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Reply:What can you expect from FIFA - stumbling from one blunder to another - stupidity on a global scale. The award in question should never have been given out pending investigation. Will FIFA find an excuse to take back the WC title trophy from Italy too?
Reply:no.. there is no one that deserves that award more than zidane... he is the reason france made it to the world cup... he's a leader, and has been an icon of soccer for the past 10 years... its not fair to pull the award away from him, because of one bad decision he made. one mistake can't make up for 10 years of greatness... he will always be remembered as one of the greats and should be compared with legends such as Pele and Maradonna!
Reply:hmm interesting question. I would say no. It has been awarded. So be it.





Why geberate even more controversy by taking it off him?
Reply:Take his balls!!
Reply:yes
Reply:No, Zidane shuld be best player in FIFA world cup. He is the right person for the golden ball
Reply:never!


he is the real hero


u cant ignore all his good deeds just bcoz of a little mistake that too bcoz he was provoked by that dumbhead!


what if u were at his place facing the same situation?
Reply:Hi,





No, but what he did is his fault and no one elses fault...


Neither if Materazzi told him rude words for half an hour straight his act is illegal to soccer.





Karl


http://www.freewebs.com/smithkarl/OurBlo...
Reply:No, he shouldnt lose as that ward is for his best play not dependent on any thing else.
Reply:It all depends on what was said. There is a huge problem in Europe with racial taunts on the soccer pitch. If Materazzi used one, then the match should be null and void. By FIFA's own rules he should have been publically humiliated, marched out to the middle of the pitch and booed by the fans. Italy should be stripped of the World Cup. Until there are real consequences, there will always be a problem for soccer players of African origin in European football.





It would be the equivalent in the US NBA finals of a white player using the n-word in addressing a black opponent. Would we expect the b-ball player to be a man and walk away?? Those days are long gone, the words are far too loaded.





Algerians have a miserable history at the hands of Europeans, and racism infects everything they try to do. Zidane's neighborhood (and others) in France are on fire for a reason, but this doesn't justify a head-butt in finals. Zidane was wrong to react, but he shouldn't lose his award for it.





Racism in futbol is a MUCH bigger problem than head-butting is.
Reply:I liked watching what he did, it was entertaining, but take it from him. If he can get away with it, everyone else will believe the same.





For everyone else that says he should still get the award because he is one of the greatest, WHY? If he has no self control in his last game.
Reply:duh
Reply:there's no doubt he was the most skillful player at this world cup, but did that red card cost france the cup? that's the question. if so, then his balls are hardly golden.
Reply:No he should not becouse he was a great playmaker and he lead his team very well.