July 11, 2006
Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival
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.
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[this is good] Matt has added this as a favorite
Something inside of me thinks that you're secretly an SA goon. I was browsing that thread last night in tears from laughter.
Gallery:
http://javimoya.com/blog/pics/200607/zidane.htm
Tremendous.
awesome grear great stuff. cheers
I hope you're ready for the onslaught of traffic you are about to get for this. ;-)
LOL I started doing something similar.
http://ladolcepeter.blogspot.com/2006/07/zidane.html
Hey man! Great laugh!
You should put this on youtube with a link to this site.
grtz
Zidane has become alot more famous since from the head but than he ever did for playing football (soccer).
Great little animation there.
Well done - great summary!
http://gifdump.com/search/Zidane/ all the gifs are here
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1950611 is the thread where a few of these were made.
I should have read. woops.
I just knew alot of greatness would come from this :) SA ftw.
"other online communities," huh?
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Oh, that collection is just choice.
My GOD, this is fantastic!! :D LMAO
It's sloppy, but it's time for Materazzi to breakdance.
Included YTMND: http://materazzibreakdance.ytmnd.com/
I love the MC hammer on the end
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wacky sax! wacky sax!
Here's something for the headache:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQT5QZrmgBY
Haha! Mine made it in there! It's the one where he gets headbutted, but then kicks Zidane off the screen :o
Zidane Game http://zidane-game.cybervenuthomas.com
http://www.zidanematerazzi.com/
anil
i linked to this. great stuff
did you think about making the player embeddable (youtube style) so that people could spread it virally?
http://www.headbuttshirts.com
"CLASSIC"
Excellent !!! For one time something funny in football !
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Excellent !!! For one time something funny in football !
www.alterhugo.canalblog.com
Hilarious
I made my version of zidane action
http://rapidshare.de/files/25704873/6561zidane.gif.html
For those who enjoy vidio games:
Move Zidane, left click, and see what happens...
http://bolinche.web.cern.ch/bolinche/zidane/
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.
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!!
cheer Zidane , You are my hero and in my heart alway
ISRAEL can suck my metal left nut
VIVE LA FRANCE!
hey buddie...that was hilarious....u have 2 send me more if u make them
brilliant!!!
http://lovezidane.com
awesome!!
This was hilarious. I played it over and over. I love it.
big boy why would make a clip like that disgracing the legend footballer go make fun of some other losers like luis figo
Brilliant! I actually laughed out loud, which I rarely ever do.
Even if your header was stopped by Buffon, you scored on Matarazzi.
Well done ZiZu!
I think that Matarazzi deserved the headbutt
and that was funny
but i think that costed them the world cup
I think that ITALY have a fucking mind player.
you just know that Zidane would have been in the a-team
Nice Video, but why is there no Kano Heart-Pull(tm)?
Be Zidane in this little game of World Cup HeadButts
Play NOW
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