Supposedly Italian lip-readers have tried to ascertain what Marco Materazzi said right before Zinedine Zidane head-butted him, and according to submissions to the Corriere della Sera, this is what he said to set Zidane off:
"Guarda, Zizou, che quando Sartre propone di restaurare la dialettizzazione intersoggettiva resuscitando la libertà che, pur non essendo mai scomparsa come condizione dell'agire individuale, è divenuta il modo nel quale l'uomo alienato deve vivere a perpetuità il suo carcere e finalmente la sola maniera che egli abbia di scoprire la necessità delle sue alienazioni e delle sue impotenze, secondo me non ha capito una mazza"
(translation)
"Look Zizou, when Sartre proposes to restore intersubjective dialectization, thus resuscitating freedom, which, even if it has never disappeared as a condition of individual actions, has become the way in which the alienated human being must live his prison forever, and finally the only way that he has to discover the necessity of his own alienations and impotencies...well, I think that he's talking bullshit"
Apparently the first rule of French football is if you're going to talk trash, you better damned well leave Jean-Paul Sartre out of it. Actually, what did go around seriously was that Zidane was sick of Materazzi grabbing his jersey, so he told him he could have it after the game if he wanted it so bad, which they both confirm, although Materazzi says Zidane said it in an arrogant way, justifying his own insulting retort. The unofficial story goes on to say that he called Zidane's (recently hospitalized) mother a terrorist whore, and further suggested that all arabs were dirty muslim terrorists. Somehow I don't think that's what I'd say to a legendarily short-tempered French arab player who's been thrown out of 14 games, sometimes for headbutting or stomping on opponents. The last time was actually IN GERMANY, for fuck's sake (Juventus v HSV in a Champions League game in Hamburg).
Zidane only says he shouldn't have done it with children watching, because he knows as a father how hard it is to teach children appropriate behavior and that media images of misbehavior like his just make it more difficult. He also confirmed that "hard words" were spoken about his mother and his sister to set him off, but didn't say what they were. Materazzi claims he didn't know what terrorist meant, which is usually how I pick my insults. Materazzi's Keanu-esque nickname "Matrix" never seemed more appropriate than when applied to a guy who got headbutted in the chest so hard he couldn't get up after using a word he didn't understand.
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