Italy beats France in a bizarre World Cup soccer championship match that ended in a over-time shoot-out and even included a bit of drama when French player Zinedine Zidane headbutted Italy's
Marco Materazzi 110 minutes into the World Cup final match.
BERLIN - The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down tagn5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
Explanations were nonexistent for Zidane's action in the 110th minute of his farewell game. He was walking upfield near defender Marco Materazzi when, in his final act for his national team, he bashed his shaven head into Materazzi's chest.
"I have not seen the replays, but if it's voluntary then there's nothing you can say," France coach Raymond Domenech said. "But it's a shame. It's sad. He (Materazzi) did a lot of acting and for such a big man, a gust of wind made him fall over."
Video of France's Zinedine Zidane
losing his composure 110 minutes into the final World Cup match:
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