The Hindu : Sport / Football : Fans should have seen footage:UEFA president

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, Jul 14, 2006

Sport

Sport - Football

Fans should have seen footage:UEFA president

London: UEFA president Lennart Johansson feels spectators at the Olympiastadion in Berlin should have been shown the video footage of Zinedine Zidane's head-butt to Italian defender Marco Materazzi to avoid the crowd hostility towards the eventual champions, who were booed after the French captain's ejection from the final in the 109th minute.

``I didn't see the incident. Like everyone else in the stadium I was in the dark about what he had done. But I was concerned about the reaction of the crowd and the way they booed and hissed the Italians after they had won the cup. That has never before happened at a World Cup final and it isn't nice,'' Johansson told The Daily Telegraph. The UEFA chief said the incident might have led to crowd trouble and FIFA should consider showing any such act by players on the big screen so as to make the situation clear to the spectators. — UNI

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport