terça-feira, julho 11, 2006

E no fim, quem é que ficou com a taça?

« Zidane has yet to say anything publicly about the incident. But family members, in telephone interviews, said they believed the Italian defender Marco Materazzi had called Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, a terrorist.

“We think he either called him a terrorist or a son of Harkis,’’ said Mokhtar Haddad, one of Zidane’s cousins, who studied the pivotal scene on a big screen with friends and family in their home village, Aguemoune, 160 miles east of Algiers.

The Harkis reference is a term for Algerians who fought on the French side in Algeria’s war for independence, and it is a severe insult for someone with Zidane’s heritage.

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Materazzi denied making any such remark, according to the Italian news agency Ansa. “It is absolutely not true,” he was quoted as saying. “I did not call him a terrorist. I’m ignorant. I don’t even know what the word means.” »

The New York Times, Sports, Zidane Is Silent; Family Suggests an Insult Provoked Him, by Jere Longman, July 11, 2006

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É. Eu também duvido que Materazzi soubesse assim tanto de História. Mas a verdade é que também não seria o primeiro a usar uma palavra que não conhece.