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Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival
July 11, 2006
Zinedine Zidane's savage headbutt of Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final has touched on many things: Race, family, country, terrorism, sportsmanship. But more than anything else, it's united the entire Internet around the most important thing. Wacky animations!
In light of this historic moment, and thanks to the efforts of citizens of MetaFilter, Something Awful, b3ta, and other online communities, I sifted through dozens of the best/worst Zidane-related animations online. All this to bring you the following movie I made last night, dedicated to the head-first fight against alleged racism, the grand tradition of ridiculous memes on the net, and the premise that "Yakety Sax" is always funny.
Feel free to leave your own animated .gifs inline in the comments; If you aren't signed in, I'll have to approve your comments before they appear.
Update: This little movie's turned out to be pretty popular! It's been featured in the Time Shares Exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as the Avant Gaming Exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University.
Previously: Bonus Features: The House of Links
Matt Haughey 
[this is good] Matt has added this as a favorite
Eston
Something inside of me thinks that you’re secretly an SA goon. I was browsing that thread last night in tears from laughter.
Philipp Lenssen
Gallery: http://javimoya.com/blog/pics/200607/zidane.htm
Raffy
Tremendous.
hells yeah
awesome grear great stuff. cheers
Scott Johnson
I hope you’re ready for the onslaught of traffic you are about to get for this. ;-)
Brob
LOL I started doing something similar.
http://ladolcepeter.blogspot.com/2006/07/zidane.html
Niels
Hey man! Great laugh!
You should put this on youtube with a link to this site.
grtz
Eddie Sowden
Zidane has become alot more famous since from the head but than he ever did for playing football (soccer).
Great little animation there.
alek
Well done - great summary!
tony
http://gifdump.com/search/Zidane/ all the gifs are here
Steve
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1950611 is the thread where a few of these were made.
Steve
I should have read. woops.
Kleven
I just knew alot of greatness would come from this :) SA ftw.
moe
“other online communities,” huh?
[this is awesome]
Hank
Oh, that collection is just choice.
Eivind
My GOD, this is fantastic!! :D LMAO
Eston
It’s sloppy, but it’s time for Materazzi to breakdance.
Included YTMND: http://materazzibreakdance.ytmnd.com/
canada
I love the MC hammer on the end
highatus
[this is good]
jim
wacky sax! wacky sax!
Kevin
Here’s something for the headache: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQT5QZrmgBY
Yardsale
Haha! Mine made it in there! It’s the one where he gets headbutted, but then kicks Zidane off the screen :o
Thunder
Zidane Game http://zidane-game.cybervenuthomas.com
pillow
http://www.zidanematerazzi.com/
fred
anil
i linked to this. great stuff
did you think about making the player embeddable (youtube style) so that people could spread it virally?
quatbol
http://www.headbuttshirts.com
uffar gwirion
“CLASSIC”
Hugo Paris
Excellent !!! For one time something funny in football ! www.alterhugo.canalblog.com
Hugo Paris
Excellent !!! For one time something funny in football ! www.alterhugo.canalblog.com
Ross Hill
Hilarious
chico hermida
I made my version of zidane action http://rapidshare.de/files/25704873/6561zidane.gif.html
Anonymous
For those who enjoy vidio games:
Move Zidane, left click, and see what happens…
http://bolinche.web.cern.ch/bolinche/zidane/
mrunderhill
That’s great entertainment!!
Although i’m curios as to what Matterazzi said to him to make him explode like that.
Zindane reckons it would have serious repercussions if he revealed what he said.
Come on ZZ put us out of our misery.
mrunderhill
That’s great entertainment!!
Although i’m curious as to what Matterazzi said to him to make him explode like that.
Zindane reckons it would have serious repercussions if he revealed what he said. For who? Sounds to me like he over reacted and now realises he’s made an a**e of himself.
Come on ZZ put us out of our misery, so we can move onto the next big topic…ISRAEL!!
wandee hanyota
cheer Zidane , You are my hero and in my heart alway
Ameer
ISRAEL can suck my metal left nut
VIVE LA FRANCE!
nick
hey buddie…that was hilarious….u have 2 send me more if u make them
kris
brilliant!!!
http://lovezidane.com
adrian
awesome!!
Patrick
This was hilarious. I played it over and over. I love it.
zizou
big boy why would make a clip like that disgracing the legend footballer go make fun of some other losers like luis figo
Evan
Brilliant! I actually laughed out loud, which I rarely ever do.
Giovanni
Even if your header was stopped by Buffon, you scored on Matarazzi.
Well done ZiZu!
seba
I think that Matarazzi deserved the headbutt and that was funny but i think that costed them the world cup
Zidane Fewer
I think that ITALY have a fucking mind player.
Alex
you just know that Zidane would have been in the a-team
Zheng
Nice Video, but why is there no Kano Heart-Pull(tm)?
Space Ear
Be Zidane in this little game of World Cup HeadButts
ITALIANO
HAha F.cking Germans! Never in history of Football Germany wins against italy hahahaha F.ckin loosers V’ANCULO GERMANIA! thank u zidane haha crazy idiot
Frank
Pretty Funny! Can now somebody do a game on Israel headbutting Lebanon after it was provoked?
nick
LOL THAT IS HALARIOUS!!!
Nada Bukvic
I admire Zidane for being so brave and strong to act like this. That way he brought attention of all world to verbal abuse he was exposed in the most important moment in the game. There are speculations of all kinds in the game but verbal abuse is so profoundly hidden but it hurts as same as somebody slapped your face. He was provoked and he did right thing. If you debate, use verbal games, if you play soccer ( particular on the world cup ) it would be fair to use a ball or a leg instead dirty words. That was unethical and low provocation. I think , after this any player in any game will think twice before provocation verbally the opposite team member. Zidane did the change, brought attention and send the right message to all players who use this type of provocation. He was enough smart to now the consequences of his action, but in spite of everything he didn’t let it go. He was protecting his dignity and members of his family. What a character. You really have to be brave to do that.
My all admiration to Zidane
Focusben
That was really not funny, not even in the same zip code as funny…
jean deboussy
I think that often in soccer game, the players injuries other players. You can see it every day. Some time there is a bad reaction (when a player is more violent than another…). This is what zizou has done! An exagerated reaction. I’m sad because he mustn’t react in this way. :-( He demonstrate to the world to be a violent person. :-( Very sad…
james
fucking lovely
Anoymous
The big question was What happened to Zidane?
Why did he assault the Italian midfielder in a final at a crucial juncture in the last match of his career?
The first reactions were all against Zinedine -putting the blame of the world cup loss on his shoulders.The world scolded and admonished him for behaving in a rowdy manner and tarnishing a long illustrous career.It was foolish,an act of frustration,suicidal,and unsportsmanlike.
Stop it.!!!
Before you say anything ,listen to the other side of the story.A story that could move you to tears.A story of an Algerian boy who lived on the streets of France.Orphaned at a very young age Zinedine and his brothers and sisters ( a large family) was living from hand to mouth.
To battle hunger and starvation,his eldest sister made the gratest sacrifice a woman could make.She took up prostitution.She earned money for her brothers and sisters and brought them up .At least now they could have food to eat ,clothes to wear and a roof over their heads.
Algerians are treated as badly in France as negroes were once treated in the western world.Suffering this daily insult and torture,Zidane played football with all his heart.It was just a matter of time when people noticed his talent and determination.Zidane’s struggle ended.A poor Algerian boy became a star.
In the final of 1998 ,in the world cup Zinedine Zidane played like never before.Pitted against the world beating team of Brazil-he destroyed them with 2 unbelievable goals.France won the world cup and Zidane won the love of his countrymen and all the football fans in the world.
A stunning loss early in 2002,emotionally affected Zinedine.He contemplated retirement and was not to play the world cup of 2006. Six months back however ,he returned.His aim was to restore France’s lost glory by winning them the world cup.
As captain Zizou (as he is affectionately called),stamped his authority in the cup.Once again he destroyed Brazil with all its Ronaldos,ronaldinhos playing the role of playmaker to perfection.He had already crafted a win against the skillful spanish team single handedly doing defence,midfield and attack.
In the semifinal he outplayed portugal to reach the final.Then what happened?
Matarelli ,the italian midfielder.knowing Zidanes background began to play on his mind.First ,he started sledging and held him from behind.Then he called him an algerian muslim terrorist.Zidane tried to ignore it. But then he started talking cheap things about Zinedine’s sister (the one who was forced into prostitution).
No brother can tolerate this tirade against ones own sister.In anger ,Zidane butted him. What followed is history.
Now tell me ,was Zidane wrong?It was an emotional moment for him-his last match.He was charged up to win for his country.And this dirty tactics by the italians spoiled it for him.
I was happy however that he was honoured with the golden ball.And what really moved me was what the French premier spoke. “France is proud of Zinedine Zidane for his enormous and unforgettable contribution to the game and the country.the country showers him with all their love and honour.”
A fitting tribute to one of the Greats of World Football.
“Dear Zizou,we will miss you so very much.”
AlbertPortao
http://emeets.info/profile.php?id=1430 Look at Memo “About me” 8)
Buchakko
:) http://bmains.info/youtube/movie.php?movie_id=40762
Canadian Dude
I agree with ITALIANO, you are right man !!! Germans will never win. I think that Zidan did the right thing. GOOD JOB MAN
reece ben
that was a good headbut
Omprakash Negi
this is class apart…………wish zidane did knock Metarazi sooooo many times….
Anonymous
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2006/07/zidane-world-cu.html
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