BERLIN (AP) — FIFA wants to reunite Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi so they can put the head-butting incident from the World Cup final behind them.
“We are definitely working on that,” FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday ahead of a two-day conference to assess the World Cup in Germany.
One suggestion was for them to meet at Robben Island in South Africa, where former President Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid leaders were once imprisoned, Blatter said.
“We are working on bringing together Zidane and Materazzi and to bring to end this story,” Blatter said.
This article took me by surprise. Zidane’s headbutt was a provoked action and was wrong on both men’s parts. They acted immature adn childish. Zidane is a respectable soccer player and to do this riht before his retirement was horrible. I did not think the two men would make up after Materazzi spoke of Zidane’s sister and Zidane brutally headbutted Materazzi.
