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Hothead Zidane newsgame
July 10, 2006 - by Gonzalo Frasca

Et oui, mes amis, le jour de gloire n'est pas arrivé!:( The final match of the World Cup is always a must see. Yesterday's was not great and, even though France deserved to win, soccer is not about who deserves to win but about who scores more goals. I was supporting France in a quite schizoid decision (my father's family is of Italian descent but my mother's is French).

Anyway, the World Cup is over, long live the World Cup. If you watched the match, you may have witnessed the shameful performance by Zidane (one of the greatest soccer players ever). Close to the end of the match, he gave a quite spectacular headbutt to an Italian adversary. It was Zidane's last match (he's retiring). He had the chance to leave in glory and instead he ended up losing and being shown the red card. I feel sorry for him but that kind of behavior does not support any excuse. Anyway, hot from the press, here's a little newsgame (new link) that was put together in a rush (probably by an italian fan, since it is signed with an Italian email account).

The game was certainly put together in a few hours. The author did not even bother to put a challenge nor a score. The graphics are crude. Still, I would bet my baguette that it is currently the hottest viral Flash game on the net. Another proof that players do not just seek AAA, multi-million dollar projects to have fun. They also want something that speaks to them. And this crude little game certainly does. (Thanks Tincho for the link!)

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Comment from jypegue on July 10, 2006

Y'a un français dans l'équipe de water cooler ?!

Comment from Gonzalo Frasca on July 10, 2006

Bien sur, jypegue! Watercoolergames is half American (Ian) half French, half Uruguayan (Gonzalo) and half everything else (our readers). Our blood is such a cocktail...
Ian is not French but he refused to eat so-called Freedom Fries as an act of support to the land of Jacques Tati. Ian trully is l'Ami Américain ;)

Comment from asuperherobynight on July 12, 2006

that link isn't working. does anyone have any mirrors to it? I also tried

http://widelec.org/zidane.html

but that's gone, too.

Thanks!

Comment from liz on July 12, 2006

the game was picked up by a major italian newspaper
http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Sport/2006/07_Luglio/10/pop_zidane.shtml

The original server was suspended because there was to much traffic.

Comment from Frasca on July 12, 2006

Wired posted some cute game-like animations of the event

http://blog.wired.com/games/index.blog?entry_id=1518482

Comment from kate connally on July 12, 2006

You can see the Zidane game at
Addicting Games. . . I cannot post the link, but it's on the homepage.
Enjoy.

Comment from Gonzalo Frasca on July 14, 2006

The Net is on fire with headbutts. Here's a simple but cute game: http://obacht.blogspot.com/2006/07/zidane-games.html

And here's another but it has horrible controls, at least on my Mac
http://www.sop-hamburg.de/zinedine/

And of course, sports can become political. Check this out this funny animation of Zidane and Castro: http://zidaneownsfidelcastro.ytmnd.com/

Comment from Peter on July 14, 2006

Here is another one:
http://www.pok.at/zizou/

Comment from Zidane Game on July 17, 2006

When I saw this thing peed my pants. Cool stuff!

Elene

http://zeljo.com/blog/zidane-the-game/

Comment from Juju on July 28, 2006

http://www.sudokuz.eu/coup-boule-zidane2.php

to play the game

Comment from thedjsavage on August 19, 2006

Check out http://www.zidanegifs.com and http://www.zidanegifs.com/forums

They've got 100's of zidane headbutt gifs and games, check out their forum and post gifs/games you have found!

-Savage

Comment from Alex on August 26, 2006

LikeZidane.com displays the act of the World Cup of Soccer Headbutt heard around the world by French player Zinedine Zidane on Italian player Macro Materazzi.
The site contains comical and real media, videos, files, games, and more on the event.

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