Abstract
Abstract In the final game of the World Cup of 2006, between Italy and France, the score had remained at 1–1 since the 19th minute of the game, and the game had gone into a second extra time. At that moment, with over a billion viewers watching on TV, the cameras captured a seemingly remarkable event. Zinedine Zidane, the captain of the French team who had scored the lone goal for France (making him the fourth player in history to score more than one goal in the world cup play-offs), who was playing the last game of an illustrious career, walked up to an Italian player who had, apparently, been taunting him verbally, and violently head-butted him, which led to his expulsion from the game. The French team, although down their most important player, managed to hold the line at 1–1 in the remaining minutes of the game, but lost on penalty kicks, a skill which Zidane was famous for.
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