Materazzi meets Fifa

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I posted not so long ago that Fifa would begin investigating Materazzi,and now they have.

“Everything went fine” for Italy‘s World Cup-winning defender Marco Materazzi at his meeting with FIFA officials today, according to the player’s agent.

World football’s governing body opened disciplinary proceedings against Materazzi on Thursday in an attempt to discover what he said to Zinedine Zidane moments before the Frenchman head-butted him in the Germany 2006 final.

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By Matt

Matt is the owner and chief-editor of the Footy Blog, one of the UK's leading football news blogs.