Not only he dived like a cheat but he also intended to injur Conte .Here is an article from www.dailysoccer.com
Hagi tried to break my leg, Conte claims
GEEL, Belgium (Reuters)(DS) - Italy midfielder Antonio Conte accused Romania's
Gheorghe Hagi on Monday of trying to break his leg during their Euro 2000 quarter-final.
Conte was the victim of a foul by Hagi in the 59th minute of the clash in Brussels on
Saturday.
He was stretchered off the pitch with torn ligaments in his right ankle and is out of the
tournament.
"Anyone who plays professional football knows how easy it is to break an opponent's
leg," Conte said at Italy's training camp. "His foul was premeditated. He intended to hurt
me. I have no doubt the foul was meant to break my leg."
Hagi, who was booked for the challenge and later sent off for a second offence,
apologised to Conte after the match.
But the Juventus midfielder said that meant nothing.
"I hope he reflects when he sees the replay," said Conte, who is on crutches and
could miss the start of Juve's Champions League campaign in September.
He said he would stay with the Italian squad for the rest of the tournament and watch
their semifinal against the Netherlands on Thursday from the bench.
"If you kept dwelling on injuries you'd give up," said Conte, who missed almost all of
the 1996-97 season with torn knee ligaments.
"I hope my lasting memory from this tournament will be a victory in the final rather than
my injury."

Thats total bull****. Why don't they talk about the foul on Hagi from Albertini. That was 10 times worse. From the looks of the replay it doesn't look like hagi meant to step on conte's ankle, so stop crying, that's football.

Hagi deserved that tackle from Albertini .Hagi tried to injure Conte and try to get a penalty by diving like a cheat that he is .No wonder he leads in most yellow cards and reds in this tournament .Thank god he is gone ,he played just to injure other players .

Albertini's tackle on hagi happened before the other. So now u can say that Conte deserved that foul.

Here is an article saying that even UEFA admits that Hagi's tackle should of been a red card .
Euro2000-UEFA says Hagi deserved red for foul on Conte
By Simon Evans
BRUSSELS, June 26 (Reuters)(DS) - UEFA said on Monday that
Romanian captain Gheorghe Hagi should have been shown a red card
for his foul on Italian midfielder Antonio Conte in Saturday's
Euro 2000 quarter-final.
UEFA also called for a crackdown on players encouraging
referees to book opponents.
Hagi's over-the-ball stamp on Conte ruled the Italian out of
the tournament with a serious ankle injury.
Although the Romanian was sent off five minutes later by
Portuguese official Vitor Manuel Melo Pereira for diving,
Kenneth Ridden, spokesman for the UEFA referees' committee said
Hagi should have been dismissed for the foul on Conte.
After showing reporters a replay of the incident, Ridden
said: "If the referee had seen what we have seen with the camera
angle, without a shadow of doubt he would have given a red
card.
"That sort of challenge is unacceptable. It was a red card
offence and he was lucky to stay on the field."
Conte himself strongly attacked the Romanian on Monday for
the challenge wich caused him to miss Thursday's semifinal with
the Netherlands and a possible final.

PRE-MEDITATED FOUL
"Anyone who plays professional football knows how easy it is
to break an opponent's leg. His foul was pre-meditated, he
intended to hurt me. I have no doubt the foul was meant to break
my leg," Conte told reporters at Italy's training camp.
Ridden praised Euro 2000 referees for continuing their
"intelligent tolerance and man-management" in the tournament,
but he said it was time to clamp down on players waving
imaginary yellow or red cards in front of match officials in a
bid to get opponents booked or sent off.
"In this area, perhaps they have been too tolerant. They are
trying to understand the frustration and manage things calmly
but when there is open dissent, with gestures, action should be
taken," said Ridden.
Many of the calls for yellow cards have occurred after teams
have been awarded a penalty and then demanded that the offender
be booked.
Ridden offered players and the media a reminder that, in
conceding a penalty, a player need not necessarily be cautioned.
"There is unfortunately a misconception that every penalty
should result in a yellow card," he said. "That is only the case
when the incident is something beyond a simple trip or holding
and when the offence itself is something which merits a yellow
card."
Lars Ake Bjorck, vice-president of the referees' committee,
called for tough action against shirt-pulling, one of the few
areas of foul play that appears to have increased at Euro 2000.
"Shirt pulling and arm pulling are a new disease. We have
told the referees to react and we have to work to stamp this
out," said Bjorck.

hehehe, did you guys notice that Footbalguy didn't reply to that last post......guess he realises he lost the argument

by the way, the Hagi foul definately deserved a red......

some of you Italy fans might remember the foul on Baggio in WC 98 by the Cameroon player (it was a similar 2 footed, studs showing, late tackle), and the Cameroon player received a red.....so if referees are judging consistently, then Hagi should have been sent off too........

anyway, i guess justice was done when Hagi got sent off later for that blatant dive...

That foul by Hagi was one of the biggest crimes ever to be commited on the pitch. It was done 100% on purpose.

p.s. that fould you mentioned was Song on di Biagio.