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Squalificati Zidane e Materazzi


Dino Lampo
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Zidane farà finta di aiutare i ragazzini davanti alle telecamere.

Materazzi dovrà saltare due partite e la cosa, potrebbe anche costargli la maglia della nazionale o comunque compromettere seriamente un ruolo di primo piano in squadra per il futuro.

Se vi può consolare, l'Herald Tribune (letto oggi in aereo) ha definito questa sentenza una buffonata.

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Vantage Point: FIFA deems words more hurtful than head-butt in Zidane case

Rob Hughes International Herald Tribune

Published: July 20, 2006

Eleven days after Italy beat France to win the World Cup in Berlin, FIFA, the governing body for soccer, sat in judgment on the head-butt by Zinédine Zidane that became the abiding image of that final match.

Zidane was suspended by FIFA on Thursday for three games and fined 7,500 Swiss francs, or about $6,000. Since Zidane had already planned never to play again, he offered as a gesture to make himself available for what FIFA called "humanitarian activities with children and adolescents."

Marco Materazzi, the Italian he butted fiercely in the chest, was also found guilty by the FIFA disciplinary commission. He was banned for two Italian national team matches and fined 5,000 Swiss francs for making insulting remarks to Zidane before the incident.

In effect, Materazzi's punishment is the harsher of the two.

Forget the Swiss francs, which are a delicate tickle on the wrists of multimillionaire players. Zidane will not lose a minute of playing time for an act of premeditated thuggery. He will instead do much publicized appearances with children, which falls into line with his stated aim to work with young people in his retirement.

Materazzi, by contrast, will miss the first two matches Italy plays as world champion, and could lose his place on the team if his replacements excel.

For what? We still do not know.

FIFA's commission, sitting in Zurich under a Swiss lawyer, Marcel Mathier, as chairman, would say in a statement only that both players stressed that Materazzi's comments to Zidane had been "of a defamatory but not a racist nature" and that both had apologized for their inappropriate behavior and expressed their regret at the incident.

Interesting. When Zidane made his television appearance four nights after the final, he apologized to the children of the world who watched his head-butt, but expressly refused to regret his action. He said that Materazzi insulted his mother and his sister, but Materazzi denied through the Italian media ever insulting Zidane's mother.

By holding its commission in secrecy, FIFA leaves the rumors in the air and the facts hidden. By issuing its findings in a statement, the committee cops out.

There is a precedent now established. FIFA took 11 days, the time in which 18 of the 32 World Cup tournament countries needed to dispense with their coaching staffs, to opt out of the wider implications of the head-butt.

Materazzi may be a destructive player, where Zidane was a god. He may lack Zidane's appeal to the public and the media. But his punishment for words we are not to hear is significantly harsher than Zidane's for an act we all saw.

The Zurich committee of five has turned on its head that nursery rhyme we learned as kids - "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

The FIFA press officer, Andreas Herren, said that the question of taking away from Zidane the honor of being named the best player of the World Cup "was not raised by the commission." This was a bit surprising given that it was the FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, who, on the night of the final, had broadcast that it was within FIFA's rights to remove the title from a player who disgraced the game.

Since then, however, the Zidane head- butt had become politicized. Much of France, apparently led by President Jacques Chirac, condoned or even admired the "manliness" of a playing idol defending the good name of his family.

It even became a polemic in France for the Algerian Muslim roots from which Zidane emerged. Newspapers irresponsibly hired lip reading experts, who came up with myriad and seemingly misleading interpretations of what Materazzi said to trigger Zidane's rage.

The butt became a cause célèbre.

In Italy, the polemic is different. Why, the Italians wonder, were the words supposedly mouthed by Materazzi an excuse for violence, whereas at the European Championship finals in Portugal two years ago, Francesco Totti was barred for four games for spitting at a Danish defender, Christian Poulson, in a case where provocative remarks by the Dane were deemed inadmissible evidence of mitigating circumstances?

The impression abounds that FIFA, as disappointed as the rest of us that the world stars did not perform well at the World Cup, is desperate to leave as a legacy to this summer the accolade to Zidane, who without question has been a star of his generation.

But this had been Zidane's 14th red card, and the second time his temper had snapped at a World Cup. Meanwhile, FIFA struck off Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese winger, as a winner of the young player of the World Cup because of what it implied was unsporting behavior.

Ronaldo had been outstanding for Portugal, but had been deemed to "dive" to feign harsh fouls against him, and had run up to the referee when Wayne Rooney, an Englishman, had stomped on a fellow Portuguese.

The inconsistency of the lawmakers is the lasting impression of this judgment in Zurich.

Modificato da Lord Jim
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Calcio: Rossi "Materazzi? Rispettiamo la Fifa"

ROMA - ''Il verdetto definitivo della commissione disciplinare della Fifa e' da noi rispettato. Ma l'episodio resta consegnato alle immagini televisive e al giudizio dell'opinione pubblica di tutto il mondo''. Questo il commento del commissario straordinario della Federcalcio alla sentenza della Fifa che ha squalificato per tre giornate Zinedine Zidane e per due Marco Materazzi, dopo la testata data dal francese all'azzurro durante la finale del Mondiale

Stavolta il sig rossi non mi è piaciuto.

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Iron

questa è resa di fronte alla mafia. In questo caso la fifa non è giustizia ma autentica cupola mafiosa, e accettarne i verdetti significa essere dei kakasotto.

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la sentenza è pericolosa perché crea un precedente.

comunque imo a materazzi hanno dato due giornate per essere sicuri di non farlo giocare a parigi la partita di qualificazione agli europei.

anch'io ho pensato la stessa cosa, comunque credo che un po di rissa non mancherà ugualmente... ^__^

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Ma Rossi non si è ancora reso conto che la FIFA è da ANNI che penalizza l'Italia? E gli spagnoli che dicono? Si ricordano di come sono usciti nel 2002? Byron Moreno è il frutto della congiura anti italiana, ormai ne sono convinto. Moreno era li per far uscire l'Italia e così è stato, ma la federazione italiana ha taciuto (ma va?) e alla FIFA si sono ben guardati dall'aprire un'inchiesta. Così come non hanno aperto un'inchiesta per il caso Totti-Pulsen, per il caso De Rossi (fra l'altro non so quanto potesse essere volontaria quella gomitata), per il caso Tassotti ecc. Frings per un pugno in faccia si è preso una giornata di squalifica, Zidane per una testata 3, Totti per uno sputo... 4!!! Materazzi per un insulto 2!!! Il tutto facendo passare Materazzi per un criminale e Zidane per un santo, laddove il francoalgerino è un vero e proprio teppista di borgata (14 espulsioni per un attaccante sono davvero eloquenti...). E la federazione italiana abbozza e dice che si deve rispettare la decisione della FIFA???? Ma quale rispetto per una decisione più diseducativa della peggior puntata dei Simpson e più antisportiva della storia? Iniqua fino all'inverosimile, tanto da lasciare completamente storditi e basiti per la sua demenzialità! Almeno gli inglesi sembrano aver collegato il cervello dimostrando un po' di buon senso, ma nel resto d'Europa ci si rende conto che una calciopoli esiste anche alla FIFA o ci si diverte solo a parlare male del calcio italiano? Se così fosse agli spagnoli sta bene di uscire come sono usciti nel 2002: non dovevano vincere e non hanno vinto.

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