Quote Originally Posted by FrogKing
I would focus even more on the game at hand and try to make my mother proud of her son. How do you think she feels now?
You are a professional player in your last game. The game is tied, and you are giving it your all to finish your career in a good way, to win the championship. The stress you are feeling is out of this world, and of the kind that most men will never experience in their lives. All your fans are watching. All your friends. Enemies. Everybody.

In this extreme moment of stress, where everything is literally about life and death, a person who doesn't even know you calls the ones you love the most degrading things. This person just shot you, on the battlefield which is a soccer final. What would you do, take the shot and retreat, or shoot back?

Don't be so sure that you'd behave as rational as you think.

You know what I don't like? People who just sit there, spouting their "bah, that was dumb!" bullshit. You don't even know a fraction of what he felt in that moment.

Oh and for the reference, Zidane's mother apparently wanted the italian player's "balls on a plate". So I don't think she was all that pissed off about Zidane retaliating...