Articles tagged with "zinedine-zidane"
A Name to Remember: Samir Nasri
By Bob | March 20th, 2007Now that Zizou has hit the retirement circuit the media's search for the "Next Zinedine Zidane" has begun in earnest. The current recipient of ...
Zinedine Zidane Declines Invitation to Play with Marco Materazzi
By Bob | March 12th, 2007That would have been fun. Zinedine Zidane has said thanks, but no thanks to an invite to play alongside Marco Materazzi as part of ...
Lilian Thuram in Heady Company
By Bob | February 9th, 2007Zinedine Zidane might have the most famous head in France, but it will be Lilian Thuram's cranium that will be on display for the whole ...
Zidane Hangs with Spike Lee at NBA Game
By Bob | February 7th, 2007Perhaps this was FIFA's punishment for the headbutt in the World Cup Final. Zinedine Zidane spent his Tuesday evening sitting near Arsenal fan Spike ...
Rumors of Frenchmen Abound
By Martha | February 6th, 2007In a post on his blog this morning, the frighteningly well-informed Ives Galarcep gave surprising credence to the paper-thin rumors about a possible future move ...
N is for Nifty, Neat, and Nasri
By Sam | February 5th, 2007If you've never heard of Samir Nasri, you definitely aren't a cool cat. All the young punks and new kids on the block are talking ...
Chicago Fire Try to Lure Zidane, a Cast of Millions to MLS
By Bob | January 24th, 2007You have to feel a bit sorry for the Chicago Fire and the rest of the teams in Major League Soccer. They know that ...
Is that Zidane's Head Rolling down the Street?
By Bob | January 17th, 2007What better way to celebrate the upcoming carnival in Nice, France than to roll out a giant effigy of Zinedine Zidane? That should help ...
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models Dig the Soccer Players
By Bob | December 28th, 2006Always a magazine to deliver fine journalism, Sports Illustrated's Web site has done us all a great service by asking the magazine's swimsuit models to ...
Zidane Head Butt Featured in new Italian Clothing Line
By Bob | December 27th, 2006Forget what the Chinese calendar says, 2006 was not the Year of the Dog it was the Year of the Head Butt. One brief ...
Spanish Rumors: Ronaldinho to be named 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year
By Bob | December 12th, 2006The whole point of this thing called the Internet seems to be to spread rumors around and hope that some of them stick. We ...
Cannavaro, Zidane, Ronaldinho Finalists for 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year Award
By Bob | November 29th, 2006Fresh on the heels of the somewhat divisive announcement that Fabio Cannavaro had won the 2006 Ballon d'Or, we learn today the names of the ...
Daily Dose 11.10
By Bob | November 10th, 2006Some stories to read while you go train surfing in Germany… Piss your pants, it all comes down to the MLS Cup final (My Very Brain) The ...
New Rule: When you Head Butt an Opponent you must wear this
By Bob | November 7th, 2006If only Zinedine Zidane has traveled to Bangladesh before before the World Cup he would never have gotten in trouble in the final because there ...
Daily Dose 11.07
By Bob | November 7th, 2006Some stories to read while you buy stamps featuring Santa sitting on the toilet... The head butt is now immortalized in a cartoon (101 Great Goals) That ...
Materazzi Writes the Final Chapter on Zidane Affair. Well, probably not
By Bob | October 9th, 2006It was three months ago today that Zinedine Zidane head butted Marco Materazzi in the final of the World Cup. It seems like just ...
Marco Materazzi Nike Commercial
By Bob | September 20th, 2006It is the moment we have all been waiting for. It is Nike's turn to exploit the head butt that just won't die. ...
Doing the Zidane in Japan
By Bob | September 18th, 2006Maybe Sepp Blatter was right after all about the need for a made-for-tv peace pipe smoking ceremony on Robben Island. The Zidane head butt ...
Blatter Wants Materazzi to Kiss Zidane, but not Zizou's Sister
By Bob | September 11th, 2006Instead of letting the head butt that just keeps giving die, FIFA honcho and resident jackass Sepp Blatter today proclaimed that the world's football governing ...
Materazzi Fancies Zidane's Sister
By Bob | September 5th, 2006After much erroneous speculation and many failed efforts at lip reading, we finally learn today that magic words that Italy's Marco Materazzi uttered during the ...
Head Butt? What Head Butt?
By Bob | August 7th, 2006Between the countless gif animations, clever websites and top of the charts music videos, it is hard to escape Zinedine Zidane's World Cup head butt. ...
A Music Video that will make you Want to Bang your Head
By Bob | August 2nd, 2006Yesterday we told you about the number one hit song in France, which celebrates Zinedine Zidane's now infamous head butt during the World Cup final. ...
Head Butt Rock
By Bob | August 1st, 2006France's World Cup loss is your Ipod's gain. In the wake of Zinedine Zidane's head butt meltdown in the World Cup final, a music ...
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