The Nipple of Zidane

Like most sane people, I don't really care about soccer. The World Cup has been pretty interesting to follow, though, in a "what-happened-today" kind of way, not a "holy crap what time's the game on" kind of way.

Yahoo!, as usual, is using technology to do cool things and drive the interest of humans. Their MatchCast is a typical live-action interface, with some added features like chat, trivia, stats, etc.

This was great at the end of the match to instantly see who made their penalty kicks.

But the New York Times live blogging of the event was perfectly good for allowing me to peek in and see what's going on in breathless, exclamatory text:

Break Materazzi reached around and twisted Zidane’s nipple! That’s what got Zidane so steamed! Materazzi tricked Zidane! Or so it seems from the replay. Can’t be totally sure though.

All Hail Italy.

Comments

[panasianbiz]

I stumbled across your blog while I was doing some online research. It is certainly interesting and rather perplexing to me that, while soccer is so fantastically popular worldwide, there continues to be a decided lack of enthusiasm for the sport in America. I wonder why.

[GBGames]

I had a conversation with a coworker while watching the US vs Czech Republic game. He said that he thinks baseball is more exciting than soccer.

I asked why, since soccer seems much more exciting to me than baseball. A lot more can happen from moment to moment.

He said that there is just a lot more exciting things that can happen. Higher scores, for example.

I asked him if it would still be an exciting baseball game if the batter would hit a lot of balls that would be homeruns but the fielding player would always make great catches, snatching the homerun away.

He said yes.

I pointed out, "That's soccer."

[martin rogers]

typical yanks.so there the sane ones and the rest of the world is mad for following football,and they wonder why such events like 11/9 happen.girfuy.thats right 11/9