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After the third clash, I frowned and he retorted: 'I'll give you my shirt later'. I replied that I'd rather have his sister than his shirt. It was the World Cup final between France and Italy. My mother died while I was a teenager, so I would never insult this. Now coach of Real Madrid, Zidane retired from international football after the final and later claimed he would "rather die" than apologize to Materazzi, calling him "evil" and insisting that the insult had been directed at his mother, Malika, who was ill in hospital at the time.

Malika was later said to have called Materazzi "disgusting" , adding: "If what he said is true, I want his balls on a platter. Materazzi has previously been widely quoted as using the word "whore" during the altercation, but he believes that the three-time World Player of the Year was culpable for his own demise in the final. After our first skirmish, I apologized, but he reacted poorly. This website uses cookies. Read RT Privacy policy to find out more.

The international soccer governing body is considering stripping Zidane of his Golden Ball, the honor awarded to the best player of World Cup tournament, as voted by the press. Get all the daily headlines in your inbox Sign up for our newsletter. Where, what, who, why? The judgement upon him will be harsh if it is alleged by Zidane that he did make a racist remark about the player's parents, who moved from Algeria to settle in La Castellane district of Marseilles.

The family of Zidane, an icon for multicultural France, are not Arabs but Berbers from the Kabylie region of Algeria, a people who have been in conflict with the Algerian government.

Zidane describes himself as a " non-practising Muslim". His father, Smail, left the village of Taguemoune in Algeria in to find work, first in Paris and then Marseilles. But the complications of race and belonging run deep in Zidane's personal history. That statement came after the abandonment of a match between the two nations at the Stade de France in October following a pitch invasion by young Arabs chanting in favour of Osama bin Laden.

If Materazzi did describe the Zidanes as "terrorists", then he has a very tenuous grip on recent French history. Yesterday, Zidane's agent, Alain Migliaccio, said the year-old was simply "very sad" about the way his career, in which he was twice voted Fifa world player of the year, had ended. He hasn't told me exactly what Materazzi said, I know that he was provoked.

Materazzi said something very grave to him, I don't know what it was.