Buffon Admits He Helped Get Zidane Sent Off in 2006 World Cup Final
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In an interview with The Guardian, the legend Gianluigi Buffon came back to Zinedine Zidane's ball shot at Marco Materazzi, during France-Italy, in the final of the 2006 World Cup.
The former Italian goaltender has just released a book on his nearly thirty-year long course in high-level football. He returns, of course, to the final of the 2006 World Cup and the expulsion of Zizou
In an interview with the Guardian, Gianluigi Buffon returned to the final of the 2006 World Cup, confiding that he had played a key role in the expulsion of Zinedine Zidane after his legendary head-up...
Twenty years after the famous final of the World Cup of football between France and Italy, former goaltender Buffon returns to the exceptional moment of the match. While France was in search of its second star of the World Cup, a scene overturned during the prolongation changed the course of the circumstances, [...] Read Buffon's article, L.A.A.: "I was the only witness to Zidane's lead" appeared first on L-FRII.
The image is now part of the (sad) legend of world football. While the French team was opposed to Italy in the final of the 2006 World Cup, Zinedine Zidane was upset after remarks by Marco Materazzi and unleashed a headbutt that sent the transalpine defender to the ground. But another Nazionale player believes that he is also guilty of “Zizou's” reaction. Gianluigi Buffon accused himself. He had already written it in his autobiography entitled “…
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