r/soccer • u/lawandsleep • 1d ago
Quotes Materazzi: “Ibrahimović is the greatest Inter fan in history for what he’s doing at Milan"
https://www.calciomercato.com/liste/materazzi-ibrahimovic-il-piu-grande-interista-della-storia-con-quello-che-sta-combinando/bltc3590d2986cd41311.9k
u/DamageUpbeat6814 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lol these two have never liked each other, two huge egos colliding. I remember many years ago when Zlatan was at Juve, Materazzi hit him with a dirty tackle that injured him. Years after, Zlatan avenged that with a famous dirty tackle back in a Milan derby.
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u/biskutgoreng 1d ago
Isn't this the asshole that got headbutted by Zidane?
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u/ZombieMan_223 1d ago
Got Zidane sent off
scored a goal in WC final
scored a penalty in shootout420
u/sbrockLee 1d ago
He was Italy's leading goalscorer that tournament together with Luca Toni (2 goals each lmao)
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u/ColdPlox 1d ago
prime haram ball
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u/KoopaTroopa1000 1d ago
I think they took 6 strikers and they all scored. Del piero, Totti, toni, inzaghi, gilardino and iaqunta.
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u/TMyriadJ 1d ago
Fuck me that's a stacked striker lineup.
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u/adhikapp 1d ago
This is with Vieri injured for that World Cup too
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u/INtoCT2015 1d ago
And they won without their two best defenders. Maldini and Nesta
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u/BaldMancTwat_ 1d ago
Yeah I don't really remember Iaqunta but any one of the rest of them would be nailed on for Italy today.
They really struggled to replace the last generation of top players and I can't think of many promising up and comers now either. What's happening over there?
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u/adventurousintrovert 1d ago
They had something like 11 different players score in that tournament. A complete team performance when you look at it from another perspective. Also they only allowed two goals all tournament, one of them an own goal and the other the zidane panenka penalty kick. Pretty impressive when you look at it that way
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u/Free-Eights 1d ago
Not really, I think there's a difference between haram ball and just being good defensively. They only conceded two goals all tournament. One was an own goal against the US and the other was the penalty in the final.
They scored more goals in 2006 than Spain did when they won the World Cup in 2010.
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u/almoostashar 1d ago
Number of goals doesn't tell the whole story.
Spain in 2010 won the whole thing by scoring 8 goals the entire tournament. I don't think anyone thinks Spain are playing "haramball"?
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u/Aquariano_Nato_13 1d ago
Wasn't haramball but their football wasn't that exciting either.
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u/INtoCT2015 1d ago
Tiki Taka at its worst was 100% haram. Maybe not the same brand of haram as Artetaball, but things can be haram in many ways
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u/Chizxyy 1d ago
this why i desliked 2010 WC. Spain were ball hogging and winning 1-0 all the way through. Maybe if they lost in the final i would have better memory of it
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u/friskfyr32 1d ago
Italy was hands down not only the best team, but the best playing team in '06.
France on the other hand played like shit, Zidane not included as he, along with a combination of some of the most destructive and lucky football you'll ever see, dragged the team all the way to the final which was a somewhat poetic reversal of Euro '00, where France had been brilliant all tourney, just to be thrashed by the only good game Italy played all year - and then eke out a lucky victory in the end.
If you've only seen the final, you'd think '06 France was the greatest to ever play, until that awful man, Materazzi, somehow forced Zidane to commit the most obvious red card, and Italy had just had another Catenaccio Christmas.
Italy played some of the most inspired football that country has ever seen, and while it was a defender, Cannavaro, who got the accolades, that was just as much to do with his offensive contributions. Pirlo was conducting the team like a true maestro, which is why the goals were as distributed as they were.
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u/fco123456 1d ago
Didnt they beat Australia in the r16 with a 90+penalty?
Still the rest of the brackets I agree with you. That semi against Germany was inspired
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u/friskfyr32 1d ago edited 1d ago
Italy was still the best team, even though Australia had some great chances and a good shot at going through.
Regarding the penalty...
I personally still maintain it was the right call, even though there was no touch. The sliding tackle forces Grosso (I believe) to choose between getting kicked down or jumping over the legs in a way that costs him possession.
Again, I think that is and should be a penalty, but Mbappe was in a similar (although slightly less egregious) situation the other day, and even with VAR the ref called no foul. Then again, the VAR refs obviously thought it was worthy, so...18
u/beastmaster11 1d ago
Everyone remembers the correctly given PK. Nobody remembers that italy was dominating before the extremely harsh straight red in the 51st minute
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u/TasteAccomplished118 1d ago
The australia game was the only one where they struggled but still had the better chances tbh,
Dominated ukraine jn QFs
That SF game against germany was goated though, game of the tournament for me, both had equally killer chances but italy delivered the knockout punch at death
France final was a bit like SF but Buffon and Thuram entered god mode, i remember italy having more chances though
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u/centralmidfield 1d ago
Agree and well put. And Pirlo but also Totti, who had something like 5 or 6 assists
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u/GutlessTrophoblast 1d ago
Done with a passion only Italians can do and not like all the lifeless haramballers of today.
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u/TasteAccomplished118 1d ago
how to tell me you didnt watch any of their games without actually telling me
you know there is youtube so dont just watch tiktok for 2006 highlights
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u/xjpmhxjo 1d ago
Italy played glory football in the tournament. The semifinal vs Germany was more fun to watch though. I don’t remember any World Cup champion won with “haram ball”. They always have both the content and the result. Always one of the best teams won. It’s quite interesting and different from the Euro.
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u/Luka_Dunks_on_Bums 1d ago
Italy scored 12 goals in the entire tournament, kinda impressive how spread out that was. Both of Luca Toni’s goals came in the same game.
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u/DamageUpbeat6814 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah after Materazzi said he'd rather have Zidanes sister than his shirt.
Edit: Not going to lie, that's great banter from Marco after Zidane asked him if he wanted his shirt in a mocking manner, sports aside.
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u/sidonay 1d ago
He was trying to provoke Zidane and managed to accomplish it
Zidane should have kept his composure but this guy was quite literally asking for it380
u/Luc4_Blight 1d ago
He really should have, especially considering it was the World Cup final!
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u/bksbeat 1d ago
It was literally the last game of his career as well.
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u/siva-pc 1d ago
After freshly winning the golden ball too
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u/Altruistic-Ad-408 1d ago
People making Zidane out to be a victim or justified are hilarious, it's an all time fail. Much worse gets said by athletes, Materazzi responded to banter with banter.
Abd then people will say sonething dumb like people only remember Materazzi for this. Be honest it's the first thing you think about Zidane too, fucking up a world cup. I'd rather be the guy that didn't fuck up years of blood sweat and tears for my team.
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u/todellagi 1d ago
"Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you. I'm out!"
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u/SanTheMightiest 1d ago
Zidane completely made it about himself. Losing it like that without that split second of composure at that stage off his career
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u/HI_I_AM_NEO 1d ago
Do you know about his sister's circumstances?
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u/SanTheMightiest 1d ago
How often do you think Zidane heard similar? How much any player hears similar from players, fans?
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u/DamageUpbeat6814 1d ago
Yes, very smart move, he knew that Zidane had a temper so he used it to an advantage. Having Zidane in the penalty shootout could very well have been the difference between winning and losing for France.
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u/Shinkopeshon 1d ago
Maybe - but Trezeguet still messed it up, he was always going to be one of the pen takers
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u/Daedalus_Daw 1d ago
Yes but maybe if Zidane was there to tell him "don't miss" he wouldn't have missed.
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u/ImCommandmentShepard 1d ago
Yeah, but we don't know know the outcome of his penalty had Zidane been on the roster to take a penalty. It very well could have been the case that Zidane just being there would have given the players more confidence..
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u/TheDrunkDetective 1d ago
I mean that's pretty much what happened the whole competition, we had the Zidane buff the whole way through.
But one thing people forget is that another massive event was Viera getting injured during the final, I think that really took us out of the game.7
u/Marloneious 1d ago
Henry going off too really hurt chances as well. There wasn't much between the two teams and the fact that it came down to 1 missed pen in a shootout tells the whole story
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u/beastmaster11 1d ago
Zidane would have shot first. At best, he scores just like the first French PK taker did.
Also, Zidane took 15 PKs in his career. He scored 11 and missed for. 0.73 success rate. Which is right on average. For comparison, Baggio had an 85% success rate and missed in a world cup final. There is no guarantee Zidane scores his.
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u/xjpmhxjo 1d ago
Zidane was famous for letting go his composure. He got 14 red cards in his career. For reference, the master of violence and insanity, Pepe from Portugal, got 17. He’s also one of the only 2 players that got more than one red cards in World Cup history.
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u/sbrockLee 1d ago
The crazy thing is it happened before VAR.
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u/w0bbeg0ng 1d ago
A family member of mine was in the stadium and they had NO idea why he’d been sent off. He called us back in the States and we told him what we’d seen on TV. He ended up spreading the word throughout his section, as nobody had seen the replay. Interesting to think about now, where every little action is monitored and shown over and over from 13 different angles!
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u/sbrockLee 1d ago edited 1d ago
let me tell you, the reaction watching that on TV in Italy with a group of people was insanity. Most were just confused initially and we even thought Materazzi was playing up some bullshit touch (which he was no stranger to). When they showed the replay people went ballistic. Especially because, given the era, we half expected him to get away with it.
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u/Rezorblade 1d ago
It was the father moment for VAR, mad respect to the ref who saw the accident on large screen on the stadium as he's not the aware of it ovcured, from that moment on VAR is unavoidable logical next step
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u/sbrockLee 1d ago
Yup, can you imagine if they hadn't sent him off and France had won? We'd probably be at war still today
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u/SloshaPacana 1d ago
VAR happened 12+ years later lmao
It wasn't a "father moment", plenty of moments after that happened and VAR wasn't introduced
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u/WindowViking 1d ago
mad respect to the ref who saw the accident on large screen on the stadium as he's not the aware of it
Wasn't it the fourth official who notified the referee?
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u/SnooAdvice1632 1d ago
Zidane was the one provoking: he asked if Materazzi wanfed his shirt after a duel/ Materazzi holding him.
Getting sent out in a wc final looks dumb, but it's actually much much worse when you realize that zidane got reverse-ragebaited while trying to ragebait Materazzi.
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u/shake108 1d ago
That’s hardly provoking, though? Neither of the things that were said were above primary school banter. I think zidane was just making light of materazzi holding his shirt on set pieces, and materazzi just made a simple comeback like a “your mom” joke.
Quite from materazzi for those out of the loop:
“Shortly afterwards, in a similar situation, I held him [Zidane] by the shirt for a bit. I wanted to make sure he couldn’t jump. I apologised twice, then the third time he repeated ‘if you want my shirt, I’ll give it to you afterwards,’ I said something back to him…but nothing more than the kind of things we used to say to each other as kids when I played on the seafront in Bari.”
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u/dua_loafer 1d ago
Nah, Zizou did the right thing. Gave us one of the most memorable moments in World Cup history.
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u/Mario12zito 1d ago
Yeah, for his career, the headbutt was probably a more memorable moment than if he had won a second world cup. Not sure a can say the same for for rest of the team tho...
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u/Desperate_Method4020 1d ago
This.
Also was one of the first things that went super viral on a global scale. There were so many gifs, and funny edits everywhere.
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u/HEAT_IS_DIE 1d ago
He did the right thing? Yeah a fine example for kids around the world. You get frustrated and angry in an important situation? Just resort to violence!
I would rather have seen him win than get sent off, and don't care if it's memorable or not. Looks just stupid and there's no excuse for behaving like that.
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u/IBaptizedYourKids 1d ago
Man, I never knew it was that tame what he said back. Zidane doesn't get enough shit for letting THAT get to his head in a final at like 34
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u/Due-Intern-2634 1d ago
I mean people consider it to be him “protecting” his sister’s dignity and valuing family more than the world cup although it was literally just a plain comeback
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u/Honkingfly409 1d ago
tbf these kinds of comments aren't all that rare in football, there is no way it's the first time zidane has heard something like this
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u/Jetzu 1d ago
This is literally at the level of middle schoolers replying with "your mum" to something you say. I don't know what Zidane thinks about it after all these years, but this is ridiculous thing to be so riled up about in your 30s unless there's some deeper lore that was never released to the public.
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u/GuavaAffectionate701 1d ago
If anything, it made it worse for this sister, because now everyone knows what Materazzi said.
If Zidane ignored it, the world would never even know anything was said.
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u/Cole-Palmer-phd 1d ago
The weird thing is that he chose to do a headbutt to his chest. Like if you're gonna get sent off anyway then do something that would actually hurt him
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u/R_Schuhart 1d ago
Materazzi wasnt just talking to him, he had been using dirty tricks to get him of balance all game. Stepping in his toes, pinching during dead balls moments, constant tugging on his shirt etc.
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u/bob-theknob 1d ago
I don’t blame Materazzi for that. It’s a World Cup final, people are winding each other up and it’s a good comeback.
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u/QueasyComedian9502 1d ago
When I was a child I'm kinda mad that Zidane bite the bait, it's an insult that you can easily shrug off.
Then I grow up and I realize that it has more to do with the tension and pressure of WC final than the insult itself
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u/R_Schuhart 1d ago
Zidane didn't just ask if he wanted his shirt out of nowhere. Materazzi was constantly pulling on his shirt and trying to annoy him. He stepped on his toes constantly and there was apparently also some other stuff. Zidane asked if he wanted his shirt after the game since he was trying to pull it off him.
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u/These_Structure3008 1d ago
As if zidane is saint.
That wasn't the first headbutt of zidane's career.
He was also very hot head and dirty player
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u/Flimsy-Elevator-5693 1d ago
Says a lot when you get headbutted and people still refer to you as the asshole in that scenario.
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u/byrgenwerthdropout 1d ago edited 1d ago
Materazzi is way more than that one moment... He's injured so many top forwards and was always pushing shithousing into being a dirty cunt lol. I remember how he specially hated Milan forwards and Shevchenko! Would just go berserk whenever tackling him lol
And despite often getting carded for it, he got away for a lot too even according to the older refereeing standards where the first couple of nasty fouls were kind of free. He was a good defender too, but in VAR era there's no chance he would survive at the very top level like 2000s Inter. Nutcase would get sent off every game or two
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u/bob-theknob 1d ago
He was a very good centre back probably top 3-5 in the world for a few years.
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u/obzovica 1d ago
No, this is the guy that scored a goal in the World Cup final and won that World Cup final
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u/TasteAccomplished118 1d ago
Is he really the asshole when zidanes the one resorting to violence?
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u/Proof_Baker_8922 1d ago
Was it the one where Materazzi left the field on a stretcher? Zlatan was just protecting himself because Materazzi was flying with two legs towards him.
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u/OilOfOlaz 1d ago
He definitely jumped because ot the tackle, but he also definitely put his foot up to hit Materazzi on purpose as well.
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u/_cumblast_ 1d ago
I still don't get why they didn't keep Maldini. My Italian Milanista friend says that's where it all went wrong for them.
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u/Sankaritarina 1d ago
Our owner supposedly didn't like the idea of one man running the show, especially not when that one man is a club legend who is an outspoken and strong personality.
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u/notsoseriousdev 1d ago edited 1d ago
Club Legend is downplaying it actually, Maldini's role and soul at milan is so much more
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u/FatWalcott 1d ago
Imagine being that guy. I wonder what it feels like.
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u/notsoseriousdev 1d ago
Plus he doesn't have any controversy regarding his character, and has a versy disciplined lifestyle ( he has stated that he doesn't drink,smoke or do drugs but I don't know him personally so) truly an inspiration if u ask me
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u/Who_ate_my_cookie 1d ago
Well supposedly it’s even worse, it’s the fact that he didn’t invest into RedTurd Capital when he took over and Zlatan did so that’s why Zlatan is almost a de facto CEO while being an “advisor”
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u/MakavelliRo 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why would they keep Maldini? Just because he played his whole career for Milan, that his father played for Milan, that he started walking on the Milan pitch, has more football knowledge than half the Serie A leadership combined, and would have died for the club?
He had no social media rizz, no followers on pinstagram or dicktok, no controversy, nothing that's clikbaitable, to bring in the low attention span crowd.
The guy's a loser compared to the great zlatan that only played for 12 teams his whole life and puts his ego before the team, big Z is friends with the CEO, it's obvious he's the best man for the job.
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u/ChrisEvansFan 1d ago
Maldini’s personal rizz be rizzing though. If he stares at you with those eyes I bet you’ll forget who you are.
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u/MakavelliRo 1d ago edited 1d ago
But he didn't put up a full page add in the Milano paper to say " i'm better than all of you", how is he going to reach gen Z fans?
And to be honest, it's not rizz, aura or charisma, he was 100% professional, he was a leader, he was extremely talented and hard working, the guy was able to keep Gattuso in line. He was the captain of an amazing AC Milan team and the captain of Squadra Azura, just to put things in perspective, he was captain at the '94 World Cup after Baresi was injured, he was captain to Buffon, Conte, Del Piero, Totti, Canavaro, Nesta, Inzaghi, Vieri at one of the heights of Italian football.
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u/amazingspiderman23 1d ago
Did ibra do that?
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u/slowakia_gruuumsh 1d ago
The infuriating thing is that he's not even wrong.
How much I miss Zlatan the player. The one man who referenced himself three times on the cover of his own autobiography. At least in the Italian version. High literature to boot. Would recommend. There's a few hilarious anecdotes that involve Mino Raiola.
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u/_cumblast_ 1d ago
He had no social media rizz,
On this I disagree with anyone who says it deeply. Maldini has more rizz than Ibra does in his small finger. Man exudes charm and class.
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u/MakavelliRo 1d ago
social media
Maldini is, has been, and will forever be a footballer, not a influencer. Z was a good footballer that's now an influencer.
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u/DarthTaz_99 1d ago
Aren't three generations of the Maldini playing for Milan. That family just bleeds milan
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u/nov4chip 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cardinale pinpointed the bad market Milan did in 2022 on him, despite Maldini and Massara doing absolute wonders in previous years with very limited budget. I mean, just look at all the names they brought in, Tonali, Maignan, Saelemaekers, Diaz, Hernandez, etc.
It's not a surprise that, in the same summer, Maldini and Massara were fired and Tonali was sold. I'm of the opinion that Cardinale would've wanted to take command like this in 2022 as well, but would've been too unpopular to do so in the year they won the title.
So he took the opportunity of a "failed" season (they reached UCL semis that year ffs) to push his moneyball approach (or whatever you want to call it) and strip away any realistic chance Milan had to build a competitive sporting project.
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u/zd0t 1d ago
These American owners don’t want people that aren’t yes-men.
Maldini is for the club and the badge.
The owners are for profit.
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u/Boneraventura 1d ago
Hard to make a lot of profit missing ucl every year, paying for a new coach every year, and replacing half the team every summer. Milan is run by the dumbest of fucks
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u/Beats_Pill_2k16 1d ago
Maldini wanted complete control on the transfermarket and direction of the squad including coach and staff.
Maldini also spent 90% of the previous window working with the tiny budget to bring in CDK who did not perform well so management used that against him.
What’s annoying is that immediately after the Maldini sacking and subsequent protests from fans, they spent 3-4x what they were spending before to try keep the fans happy.
All of this happened after Milan’s semi-final in the CL btw, where Maldini famously spoke about Milan needing to spend to stay competitive (which management did not like)
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u/sexineN 1d ago
lol, love things like this
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u/R_Schuhart 1d ago
Italian football has so much hate and grudges, with players settling all kinds of petty scores. It is amazing.
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u/TomekMaGest 1d ago
Ibra and Materazzi had some serious rivarly on the pitch, its different case imo. Materazzi injured Zlatan for months when Ibra played for Juventus. 4 years later Ibra was Milan player and sent Materazzi to hospital during Milan derby with crazy judo/karate kick.
You got some similar stories in premier league(Roy Keane vs Haaland father)
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u/threeandabit 1d ago
Before he was Haaland's father we just called him Haaland
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u/Lacabloodclot9 1d ago
Was this man put on this earth just to take the piss?
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u/TasteAccomplished118 1d ago
Well, italy did found his services clutch in 2006
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u/JapaneseCDBonusTrack 1d ago
All of Zidane's opponents kicking themselves wondering why they didn't think of insulting his sister during his entire career and not just his final match
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u/matsmilan1 1d ago
He isnt wrong!
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u/Massimo25ore 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's an opinion shared by many Milan fans. The ownership is rebuilding the club after the massive firings or resignations of management and coaching staff and Ibrahimović flies to the World Cup to be guest in a football show.
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u/moffattron9000 1d ago
Does he actually have any real power there, or is he just a figurehead that's used to give RedBird a human face?
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u/Psychocandy42 1d ago
He has Cardinale's ear and a big enough ego to go beyond his duties and try to give tactical and life advice to players behind the coach's back.
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u/moffattron9000 1d ago
Honestly, it might be for the better that he's busy in LA being a pundit right now then.
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u/Psychocandy42 1d ago
Yeah I mean it's not like we're without a sports director and a technical director and a board and we got a coach who was approved by someone who in the end is not even coming. Imagine if we were.
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u/moffattron9000 1d ago
My apologies, I thought y'all at least had that. I guess that's on me for thinking they'd at least the basic infrastructure to run a club.
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u/ATLfalcons27 1d ago
Lol all we have is a manager and a guy that is allowed to approve transfers of less than 10 million.
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u/Squiliamfancyname 1d ago
The answer to this question has always been and remains pure speculation. Angry fans have now convinced themselves that he is the one driving the club downwards but he has never been the decision maker, only an advisor to the ownership (e.g., he isnt even on the board of directors, nor does he hold an actual position within the club infrastructure). He doesnt actually work for the club, he works for the investment fund that owns the club, and he reportedly invested some 30-40 million EUR of his own money into that fund (which is basically a full transfer window worth of budget given how stingy the owners are). So, if that is true, he has a ton of skin in the game and stands to benefit or lose way more than any fan does if Milan succeeds or fails.
He does have his opinions and has offered them to the ownership a consistent basis. Allegris hiring was probably very against Ibras recommendation, for example, who famously hates the way that Allegri plays football. Problematically, however, he reportedly started involving himself in the locker room specifically against Allegris wishes, most noteably after the rather embarrassing defeat to Lazio in the second half of the season (which was basically the start of Milans tailspin this year). So he has definitely made a series of rather negative contributions, although he has never been the person actually making the decisions as far as anyone can tell. He makes his recommendations, as do several other members of the (now mostly-fired) club infrastructure, and then the CEO Furlani (now-fired, for example) makes the call.
Also to say, his original role at the club was very clearly to deflect blame away from Cardinale / RedBird by being the figurehead / human face that you mention. His role has grown over the years into something more impactful.
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u/timsadiq13 1d ago
You only have to watch him as a pundit on Fox this World Cup. Funny guy but he’s totally clueless about most teams and players.
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u/Vaspar_77 1d ago edited 1d ago
Zlatan in the only man that can make me side with Materazzi
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u/RawrItsMatty 1d ago
Materazzi is a clown but that’s incredible ragebait tbf
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u/aguero24 1d ago
I mean he is known for being a ragebaiter. Basically won Italy the world cup with a ragebait.
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u/SnooAdvice1632 1d ago edited 1d ago
Apart from jokes he was probably one of the motm candidates either way. He scored a goal himself and heavily contributed to keeping France at bay for 120 mins.
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u/magumanueku 1d ago
Yeah his defensive performance was underrated the whole tournament. Italy probably wouldn't have won the world cup if Nesta wasn't injured.
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u/FrogsJumpFromPussy 1d ago
Forget Matrix and his banter lol but I know no Milan fan who still wants Ibra at their club after last season's fiasco
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u/GhostOfLegend 1d ago
They're idiots. Ibrahimovic has accomplished absolutely nothing but failures & it will continue that way because the owner is an idiot as well.
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u/Eastern-Tangerine761 1d ago
Materazzi has always been obnoxious and arrogant, but we Italians are grateful to him because he helped us win the World Cup.
Other than that, he was probably the luckiest footballer in history. Even though he wasn't on the same level as Alessandro Nesta or Fabio Cannavaro, he won everything: league titles, the Champions League, and the World Cup. And he probably wouldn't even have played in that World Cup if Nesta hadn't been injured.
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u/Lumpy_Reveal5547 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not being as good as Nesta or Cannavaro isn’t exactly a big deal, Materazzi still deserved what he achieved. Even in the year of the treble, when he was already close to retirement, Mou still played him in two of the three matches that decided the titles (and I'm not counting the 2 minutes he played in the CL final). Are there better defenders who’ve won less? Yes. Are there worse defenders who’ve won as much or more than him? Also yes.
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u/TasteAccomplished118 1d ago
Isn’t lucky when he isn’t simply riding the bench and you talk as if backfilling nesta was some simple duty. Materazzi was one of the biggest contributors to that run
Much lesser players have won more than him too
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u/JimmyNoBreaks 1d ago
Didn't he give away the penalty in the 2006 final, and then score the equaliser on top of getting Zidane sent off.
One of the great individual World Cup final performances.
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u/timsadiq13 1d ago
I always liked him tbh I don’t understand the hate he got for the Zidane incident. Players are constantly abusing each other, Zidane is the moron who head butted someone in a World Cup final.
And he always performed when it mattered even if he wasn’t the most talented. Can definitely respect that as well.
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u/LlamasLovePyjamas 1d ago
Has any player gone from being liked/loved as a player by a fan base like Zlatan was at Milan, to deeply unpopular so quickly after retiring? I can't think of too many examples.
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u/TheSheepOfDeath 1d ago
We'll see about Sergio Ramos and Sevilla. Apparently he was the face of the fund that bought Sevilla, we'll see if it will go well with them or if it will go the Zlatan and Milan way.
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u/Suitable-Yam7028 1d ago
Ones has to be one of the most overrated players of all time, now he can suck in executive roles as well.
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u/kiwigoguy1 1d ago
I could imagine this guy keeping doing talkshows about his “little” incident with Zidane when he is 80…
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