Like every other football crazed nation, Iranians are talking about the World Cup and Zidane’s head butt. In fact, this has been the primary topic of conversation for two days now. I just read a couple of my Iranian friends Materazzi’s description of the incident translating it into approximate Farsi. The lines:
'I did not call him a terrorist. I am not a cultured person and I don't even know what as Islamist terrorist is.'
He added: 'For me the mother is sacred, you know that.'
…Got a big laugh from my friends. “How Iranian of him,” Niloofar laughed. By this, she meant the way that Materazzi admits to insulting Zidane but does not rule out an insult to Zidane’s family, just one to his mother.
ESPNsoccernet - World Cup - Materazzi admits to insulting Zidane: "Materazzi, 32, told Gazetta dello Sport: 'I held his shirt for a few seconds only, then he turned to me and talked to me, jeering.
'He looked at me with a huge arrogance and said, `If you really want my shirt I'll give it to you afterwards'. I replied with an insult, that's true.'
Materazzi has not elaborated on what he did say, but one report suggested he responded with: `I'd rather take the shirt off your wife'.
He has denied, however, some of the more vile insults referring to his wife or sister or calling him a terrorist.
'It was one of those insults you're told dozens of times and that you often let fall on a pitch,' Materazzi said.
'I did not call him a terrorist. I am not a cultured person and I don't even know what as Islamist terrorist is.'
He added: 'For me the mother is sacred, you know that.'"
2 comments:
Zidane has supposedly promised to reveal the truth within a few days. There is an interesting article about what lip readers think he said here.
I love your blog, by the way!
Didn't you hear the Iranian version why Zidane went completely crazy?
Materazzi told him he's playing like Ali Dai :)
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