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Published 13:26 9 Jul 2016 BST
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"I decided to publish a book about this event because everyone asked me what I had told him (Zidane) to react like that. My words were stupid but did not deserve that reaction. In any neighbourhood of Rome, Naples, Turin, Milan Paris, I hear much more serious things." “I talked about his sister not his mother, like I have read in some newspapers. My mother died while I was a teenager, I would never insult his.”Materazzi also claimed that he was baffled that the incident garnered so much attention, and doesn't want to be remembered for being the man Zidane headbutted.
"I do not understand why this story reached such large proportions. The only thing I want to remember me, are my two goals in the final."

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