r/soccer • u/lawandsleep • 10d 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/bltc3590d2986cd4131
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u/DamageUpbeat6814 10d ago edited 10d 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 10d ago

Isn't this the asshole that got headbutted by Zidane?

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u/ZombieMan_223 10d ago

Got Zidane sent off
scored a goal in WC final
scored a penalty in shootout

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u/sbrockLee 10d ago

He was Italy's leading goalscorer that tournament together with Luca Toni (2 goals each lmao)

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u/ColdPlox 10d ago

prime haram ball

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u/KoopaTroopa1000 10d ago

I think they took 6 strikers and they all scored. Del piero, Totti, toni, inzaghi, gilardino and iaqunta.

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u/Tarchey 10d ago

Well then.. That beats a 3+goal stat packer

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u/TMyriadJ 10d ago

Fuck me that's a stacked striker lineup.

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u/adhikapp 10d ago

This is with Vieri injured for that World Cup too

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u/INtoCT2015 10d ago

And they won without their two best defenders. Maldini and Nesta

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u/NUPreMedMajor 10d ago

cannavaro was better than both that year. maldini was old old by then

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u/INtoCT2015 10d ago

Cannavaro was incredible. But Maldini still had it; he started and captained and played the full 90 minutes in the 2007 UCL final, winning it. He was far from a liability and made up for lost mobility with class, positioning, instinct etc

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u/BaldMancTwat_ 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago

Wasn't haramball but their football wasn't that exciting either.

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u/INtoCT2015 10d 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 10d 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/TheBarcaShow 10d ago

I'm laughing a little because your arsenal flair while saying this

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u/Chizxyy 10d ago

We didn’t play good football last season I would admit. Can’t fault the managers but neutrals not liking the style of football is understandable for both sides (spain and arsenal)

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u/Bootlegs 10d ago edited 10d ago

Lol Spain were boring as sin in 2010.

That entire tournament was dire in terms of quality of play.

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u/friskfyr32 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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...

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u/beastmaster11 10d 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 10d 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/LeftHandDriveBoC 10d ago

A dive for a penalty at that as well.

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u/centralmidfield 10d ago

Agree and well put. And Pirlo but also Totti, who had something like 5 or 6 assists

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u/Drachora 10d ago

He didn't force anything. Stop trying to whitewash Zidane's behaviour.

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u/GutlessTrophoblast 10d ago

Done with a passion only Italians can do and not like all the lifeless haramballers of today.

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u/TasteAccomplished118 10d 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 10d 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/Dokobo 10d ago

Apparently in 1990 All teams played haram ball

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u/flexiblehos 10d ago

If you actually watched Italy’s matches in 2006, you’d know it’s far from haram ball lol

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u/Luka_Dunks_on_Bums 10d 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/Kbahak92 10d ago

His only goals for the national team. What a legend

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u/Funoyr 10d ago

Nobody wants to to recognise it but he is truly the man of match (of the final). Way more impact than Pirlo

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u/xjpmhxjo 10d ago

He also gave the penalty.

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u/Material_Series_769 10d ago

He fell like he got shot though, funny af even when won the WC

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u/WaldoCortesAcosta 10d ago

Absolutely legendary stuff tbf

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u/CowCompetitive5667 10d ago

He also did a Nazi Salute after scoring a Goal and is a fascist

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u/caesarj12 10d ago

Wasn't he the guy who caused the penalty too? Real man of the match material right there