Zidane set to comment on red card on French television at 1900 BST on Wednesday

[ottawaguy]

then what does?

in my eyes Maradona, Platini, Cruyff, Valderrama, Zidane are good examples of pure class.

Wrong, those guys were all great players but that doesn't make automatically make them classy individuals.

 

[Seggie8]

I'm 100% with Zidane in this whole incident. If someone said something about my mother or my sister for that matter, I'd rip their head off and feed it to their relatives.

Oh and GinoFag, you seem to be the only one against Zidane through all of this. If you don't think he's "pure class" in his career because a dirty piece of sh*t like Materazzi provoked him into doing something terrible, then you can shove a glowstick up your ass and f*ck yourself.

 

[ganxxxter]

there are only five classy individuals in the history of football:
diego maradona, eric cantona, paul gascoigne, stefan effenberg, zinedine zidane!

 

[MaestroZidane]

Zidane will always be a legend, and like silencer said he didn't have to apologize for his actions but he did. That shows class

 

[Shortstraw]

Wrong, those guys were all great players but that doesn't make automatically make them classy individuals.

Well Maradona got banned for taking drugs many times, so according to you he cannot be world class?

 

[Krypton X]

Materazzi again proves that he's nothing more than a lowlife pr*ck with an 8-year old's brain.

First he says he didn't do anything to Zidane, then later he admits that he did in fact insult him, but vigorously denies that he ever made mention of Zidane's mum since according to him mothers are 'too sacred', adding that he doesn't even know what a terrorist is. Now Zidane refutes that by saying that the insults were infact directed at his mother and sister. And I bet douchebag Meterazzi will come out again and contradict himself with another stupid statement to vindicate Zidane even further.

 

[ganxxxter]

a classy individual is still a human being, i think these are the best players ever:
diego maradona, eric cantona, paul gascoigne, stefan effenberg, zinedine zidane!

 

[MaestroZidane]

I'm 100% with Zidane in this whole incident. If someone said something about my mother or my sister for that matter, I'd rip their head off and feed it to their relatives.

Oh and GinoFag, you seem to be the only one against Zidane through all of this. If you don't think he's "pure class" in his career because a dirty piece of sh*t like Materazzi provoked him into doing something terrible, then you can shove a glowstick up your ass and f*ck yourself.

Well said

 

[ottawaguy]

i guess you guy have a different idea of what class actually means than I do. I mean, you're all calling Maradonna class, give me a break. Nothing against Maradonna, he was a magnificent player and what he did to represent Argentine football was second to none. but the guy has had his share of problems over the years. He has been a notorious tax evader (if he wasn't a great football player, he would have served some serious jail time). And a drug addict. Are coke addicts pure class? if no, then maradonna cannot be considered class in my mind. (And yes I know Maradonna has fought his demons, which is definetely good to see)

 

[donovan929]

How do you define a class player then?

 

[Silencer]

Yes well but you are forgetting a few

Paul Gascoigne
Johan Cruyff, Pele, Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, George Best, David Beckham, Roy Keane, Platini and more I bet

Back on topic, sure Maradona is a legend but he acted like an @ss at the WC unbelievable like a big kid

 

[Drvar]

i guess you guy have a different idea of what class actually means than I do. I mean, you're all calling Maradonna class, give me a break. Nothing against Maradonna, he was a magnificent player and what he did to represent Argentine football was second to none. but the guy has had his share of problems over the years. He has been a notorious tax evader (if he wasn't a great football player, he would have served some serious jail time). And a drug addict. Are coke addicts pure class? if no, then maradonna cannot be considered class in my mind. (And yes I know Maradonna has fought his demons, which is definetely good to see)

i think most people here mean class, as in players having classy skills...

 

[ganxxxter]

i guess you guy have a different idea of what class actually means than I do. I mean, you're all calling Maradonna class, give me a break. Nothing against Maradonna, he was a magnificent player and what he did to represent Argentine football was second to none. but the guy has had his share of problems over the years. He has been a notorious tax evader (if he wasn't a great football player, he would have served some serious jail time). And a drug addict. Are coke addicts pure class? if no, then maradonna cannot be considered class in my mind. (And yes I know Maradonna has fought his demons, which is definetely good to see)

stupid pizza-nerd, maradona, gascoigne, cantona, effenberg and zidane are/ were the best players ever. note: no italian is among them

 

[ottawaguy]

How do you define a class player then?

I believe class is not the appropriate word to use in describing a players skills. Class is a more personal term to describe how an individual NOT a player. It is how someone conducts himself while on the job with his peers, and how they are in general life. I am not calling Maradonna crap or anything but from what I know, he is not classy. And since I don't know too much about players, and their lives I hold off on the throwing around of the word classy.

 

[F-side]

Zidane is a great human being who sometimes lets himself be provoced and gets emotional and lashes out. He's loved by all his ex teammates and everybody calls him a great person. He's not known as a slimeball eventhough he had some violent moments in his carreer nothing as many as the red cards he got, which weren't 20, and far most of them were not linked to violent actions. Why do we football purists as i see it love Zidane and believe him more is cause he represents football, materazzi represents anti-football. Players like Zidane, Nedved, Bergkamp, even Jari Litmanen in his best day have all had their violent outbursts, but everybody who knows them know they are not the violent type at all, they aren't cause they try to play football, not anti-football. But because they are always 2 steps ahead of their mediocre opposition in their carreer, scumbag defenders came up with every dirty trick in the book to kick the living **** out of them, provoce them as much as possible, etc... most of the time unpunished. Anybody saying you are an idiot or a bad person for sometimes hitting your tolerance limit and lashing out must have never been in the same situation. The fundemental difference with Zidane and Materazzi is Zidane doesn't go on the field with the intention to kill football and the best players and go to all lenghts even comitting straight out carreer ending criminal tackles weekly, Materazzi does.
This is why i can forgive Zidane, but i can never forgive or feel sympathy for a scumbag like Materazzi.

By the above posters definition, Zidane is a classy man outside football. Try to find any negative sounds from offside the pitch about the grown up Zidane. The man has had hard times in his life torn between 2 cultures and backgrounds, and yet has never said anything negative about either. I'll take his word anyday over Materazzi, who against my own club Ajax Amsterdam did and said the most despicable things you can imagine.

 

[donovan929]

I will never forget Materazzi for provoking Zizou though since he knew it was Zizou's final match. And ottawaguy, for the record, in this forum class relates to football, not to eating or drug habits.

 

[TOON ARMY]

Little know fact.

Zinedine Zidane has been sent off more times than Roy Keane.

Let us not forget that before we lionise him as some football saint who was sinned against in his moment of triumph.

 

[CarlosDanger]

Class player=very skilled player......and Zizou fits that definition perfectly


Definitely one of the very greatest
(note everyone, the correct spelling of definitely, the most misspelled word in the forum)


And he has been sent off on average of, what, once a year for his career?
Do you know the reasons for his sendings-off, as compared to Keane's?

 

[Silencer]

I've just seen the interview on tv and one thing is for sure..Materazzi is a blatant liar telling the media that a mother is sacred and blablabla.
He continuously insulted his mother and sister in a very very bad way and Zidane was very serious while telling that to the presenter.
It started when Materazzi started pulling his jersey and Zidane didn't liked that of course. He wouldn't let go according to Zizou and repeated his insults against his mom and sis."I"m a man of flesh and blood, I'd rather he hit me in the face then saying things about my family in a bad manner'.
And he is so right if you ask me, curious what Materazzi will say tomorrow..more lies probably

 

[TOON ARMY]

Class player=very skilled player......and Zizou fits that definition perfectly


Definitely one of the very greatest
(note everyone, the correct spelling of definitely, the most misspelled word in the forum)


And he has been sent off on average of, what, once a year for his career?
Do you know the reasons for his sendings-off, as compared to Keane's?

I'm just trying to put the point across that just because Zidane is/was a class player in some people's eyes he is excempt from criticism while Materazzi is getting slaughtered left, right and center. Zidane has a history of violent conduct and is certainly no saint as he is portrayed in France.