Golden Ball Winner an resident headbutter Zizou told French television channel (Canal) that he was provoked into head-butting defender Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final because the Italian insulted his mother and his sister.

“He (Materazzi) pronounced very tough words about my mother and my sister. I tried not to listen to him but he kept repeating them,” Zidane said.

“I knew it was my last game and I knew that there were only 10 minutes to play but things happened very swiftly”, he said.

“I am a man before anything else,” he added.

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Source: CNN

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