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July 13 (Bloomberg) — Zinedine Zidane, soccer’s three-time world player of the year, said he was provoked into head-butting Marco Materazzi during the World Cup final four days ago because the Italy defender insulted his mother and sister.

Young fan relives World Cup experience
KEIRAVILLE football fan Michael Forst has returned from the trip of a lifetime to the World Cup in Germany where he escorted the Socceroos onto the field before they played Brazil.

World Cup: France’s Zidane says head-butt followed series of slurs against his mother and sister
PARIS — French soccer icon Zinedine Zidane yesterday finally broke his silence, answering the question on everyone’s mind: What was behind his shocking head-butt that felled his Italian opponent in the closing minutes of the World Cup championship?

Japan jet off to Germany for World Cup
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japans World Cup team left for Germany on Friday amid flashing cameras and seen off by around 300 fans at Narita airport. The Asian champions are scheduled to arrive at their World Cup base in the former West German capital Bonn on Friday evening local time.

Botswana: With Dusk On World Cup, Where is Africa?
There was no safety in numbers for the Africa teams at the just-ended World Cup. Despite fielding five teams, Africa still failed to make it to the final stages of the World Cup.

MTN signs global deal as first African FIFA World Cup Sponsor until 2010
With the 2006 tournament in Germany just completed, the focus of the football world has now shifted to Africa and its economy for the next four-year cycle which will culminate in the first FIFA World Cup on African soil in South Africa.