Zidane : He apologizes to the children, but has no regrets
On TF1 Wednesday night Zidane in his Marseille accent expressed himself with confidence and appeared to be a man at completely at peace. He regrets nothing, but he did emphasize a number of times to children and those who teach children that what he did was wrong. On the other hand, because of the gravity of the insult, he feels no regret that he acted in the way that he did.
He never spoke Materazzi's name. And he did not say he would ask for legal action.
He seemed to look forward to a life lived with less surveillance. He seemed to be genuinely happy to live the life of civilian.
He also said a number of times, "You have to accept things as they are. I would leave it like that," when asked whether or not he would redo the final if he could turn back time. He alluded to a higher power by looking up at the ceiling. Some one up there wanted it this way.
When asked about his 14 red cards, he said that he wasn't always proud of what his actions, that he is not perfect. Zidane also insisted tha has always tried to be as honest as possible.
As for what his opponent said, Zidane only alluded to the fact that it had to do with his mother and his sister. He said quite simply, I try to be as honest as I can. I was guilty of reaction, and I was punished, but I hope the person who is guilty of provocation is punished as well.
The sports pundits can chatter on and FIFA may even take away his "Golden Ball." I don't think this guy cares. So I'm done with this topic (I hope).
Oh yeah, just one more thing. Zidane said that he read in the newspaper that an Italian politician had said, "We beat a team of blacks, fundamentalists and communists." He must have been a right-wing nut to think that those three groups are a natural alliance. But Zidane went on to say that he thought such a statement did much more damage than his admittedly shocking gesture.
He never spoke Materazzi's name. And he did not say he would ask for legal action.
He seemed to look forward to a life lived with less surveillance. He seemed to be genuinely happy to live the life of civilian.
He also said a number of times, "You have to accept things as they are. I would leave it like that," when asked whether or not he would redo the final if he could turn back time. He alluded to a higher power by looking up at the ceiling. Some one up there wanted it this way.
When asked about his 14 red cards, he said that he wasn't always proud of what his actions, that he is not perfect. Zidane also insisted tha has always tried to be as honest as possible.
As for what his opponent said, Zidane only alluded to the fact that it had to do with his mother and his sister. He said quite simply, I try to be as honest as I can. I was guilty of reaction, and I was punished, but I hope the person who is guilty of provocation is punished as well.
The sports pundits can chatter on and FIFA may even take away his "Golden Ball." I don't think this guy cares. So I'm done with this topic (I hope).
Oh yeah, just one more thing. Zidane said that he read in the newspaper that an Italian politician had said, "We beat a team of blacks, fundamentalists and communists." He must have been a right-wing nut to think that those three groups are a natural alliance. But Zidane went on to say that he thought such a statement did much more damage than his admittedly shocking gesture.
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I love Zidane.
As for what his opponent said, Zidane only alluded to the fact that it had to do with his mother and his sister. He said quite simply, I try to be as honest as I can. I was guilty of reaction, and I was punished, but I hope the person who is guilty of provocation is punished as well.
Now that we have an inkling of the nature of Matterazi's provocation, this infuriates me. It angers me that Matterazi can get away with his violence. Why is it that his violence doesn't merit a red card when it was calculated to provoke a reaction that might garner a red card for Zidane? While we often decry physical violence as more costly than verbal violence, just as we punish physically violent crime more severely than white collar crime, I often wonder if both kinds of violence/crimes cost us equally even if we can't trace directly the relationship. I wish our valuation of violence were different.
Yeah, the interview gave me closure on this thing. He's an aristocrat about this -- not playing the victim and excusing himself with -- "He made me do it!" He did not go all Dr. Phil on us and blame everyone else in sight.
He admits to his part of the guilt, and refused to say anything about whether or not everything would have turned out differently if he had been able to play the last ten minutes and talked about getting to know Algeria, the land of his parents.
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