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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Rob Miech

HISTORICAL FACTS: Head butt from 2006 world cup final left an imprint - Caught on Camera

Zinedine Zidane (left) received a red card after head-butting Marco Materazzi in the final of the 2006 World Cup, which led to Italy beating France on penalty kicks. (Getty Images)

LAS VEGAS — Informed that The Times of London, in 2007, had rated him among its 50 hardest, toughest, give-no-quarter footballers of all time, Marco “The Matrix” Materazzi pauses.

Materazzi, the paper wrote, “dispenses pain like other Italians dish out linguine con vongole.”

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