FIFA to Investigate Zidane Head-Butt in World Cup Soccer Final

From Bloomberg

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- FIFA will investigate France captain Zinedine Zidane's head-butt on Italy's Marco Materazzi in soccer's World Cup final two days ago.
The probe will allow FIFA ``to clarify the circumstances surrounding the incident as exactly as possible,'' the ruling body said in an e-mailed statement today.

The 34-year-old former three-time world player of the year received a red card in his last ever game for butting Materazzi in the chest during extra time in the match in Berlin. Italy secured its fourth world title with a 5-3 victory in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1-1.

Brazil's TV Globo and the U.K.'s Times newspaper hired lip- readers to try to ascertain what the Italian said to provoke Zidane. Globo said Materazzi insulted Zidane's sister, while the Times said it was his mother. He called Zidane a terrorist, Spain's Marca newspaper said. Materazzi denied abusing Zidane's family, Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport said today.

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In my opinion, FIFA should penalize Zidance to ban for several matches even he has retired from football career. Even it is a meaningless action for a retired player, it showed that the action is intolerable for the other players. Also, the audience will understand this action is unacceptable especially children.

Of course, I think Zidance should apologize for his behavior even Materazzi was wrong.