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Marco Materazzi
Personal information
Full name Marco Materazzi
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Internazionale
Number 23
Youth career
1990–1991 Messina
1991–1993 Tor di Quinto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1994 Marsala 25 (4)
1994–1995 Trapani 13 (2)
1995–1998 Perugia 47 (7)
1996-1997 → Carpi (loan) 18 (7)
1998–1999 Everton 25 (2)
1999–2001 Perugia 51 (15)
2001– Internazionale 176 (18)
International career‡
2001–2008 Italy 41 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 May 2010
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 June 2008

Marco Materazzi (born 19 August 1973), is an Italian football player, centre back for Serie A club Internazionale.

At the beginning of his career, Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Premier League side Everton. He spent two periods with Perugia (1995–98 and 1999–2001) and signed for his current club, Inter, in 2001 for €10 million. He is renowned as a prolific goal-scorer for a defender, breaking the Serie A record for most goals scored by a defender in a season in the 2000–01 season. With Inter he has won a number of major honours including five Serie A titles, one Champions League, three Coppa Italia, and the Supercoppa Italiana three times.

He made his international debut in 2001 and won his first major trophy with Italy in 2006, as part of the World Cup team. Materazzi played in the final of the competition and scored Italy's only goal in regular time.

Early life

Marco Materazzi was born in Lecce, where his father Giuseppe was a player for U.S. Lecce. Giuseppe was also a former football coach and manager of teams such as Pisa, Lazio, Sporting CP and Tianjin Teda. Marco was a Lazio fan during his father's stint as Lazio manager in the late 1980s.[1]

Club career

Marco Materazzi

He began his footballing career with the Messina Peloro youth team from 1990 to 1991. He spent his early career in the lower divisions of Italian football, with amateur side Tor di Quinto (1991–92), Serie C2 team Marsala (1993–94), and Serie C1 Trapani (1994–95), where he narrowly missed a historic promotion to Serie B after losing a promotion playoff to Gualdo.

Serie B squad Perugia Calcio signed Materazzi for the first time in 1995, but spent a part of the 1996–97 season in Serie C with Carpi, before coming back to Perugia. He then spent 1998–99 with Everton, where he was sent off four times in just 27 games, and scored twice against Middlesbrough in the league[2] and Huddersfield Town in the League Cup.[3] He then returned to Perugia, and scored 12 goals in the 2000–01 season, breaking Daniel Passarella's Serie A record of most goals by a defender in one season.[citation needed] Materazzi was then signed by Internazionale for €10 million.[citation needed] He finished the 2006–07 season as the top scoring defender of Serie A with 10 goals.[citation needed] Materazzi made his 150th appearance for Inter in a 2–0 win over Atalanta in April 2008.[citation needed]

Materazzi is known amongst fans and fellow players as The Matrix, owing to his reportedly unpredictable personality.[1]

International career

Materazzi started the 2006 FIFA World Cup as a reserve player, but after Alessandro Nesta suffered an injury in the group match against Czech Republic, he was brought back into the starting lineup. He was sent off with a red card in the round of 16 match against Australia and was suspended for Italy's quarterfinal match against Ukraine.

In the World Cup final against France, he conceded a penalty but later tied the match 1–1 with a header. He also scored Italy's second penalty in the shootout after the match remained tied after extra time. During the extra-time period, Materazzi was headbutted in the chest by Zinedine Zidane, and fell to the ground. Zidane was then sent off. Zidane had accused him of insulting his sister and mother, but during a press conference following the event, Materazzi claimed that after he had grabbed Zidane's jersey, Zidane offered it to him sarcastically. Materazzi then replied, preferisco quella puttana di tua sorella (I prefer that whore sister of yours), which resulted in the headbutt. He later claimed he knew Zidane had a sister and did it on purpose to make him angry.[4][5] Three British tabloid newspapers, The Daily Star, The Daily Mail and The Sun, alleged that Materazzi had made comments of a racist which he was to Zidane. Materazzi took legal action against them and the allegations were later withdrawn and all three newspapers paid substantial damages.[6][7]

Materazzi started the first match of Italy's appearance in Euro 2008, a 3–0 loss to the Netherlands. He was replaced in the 54th minute with his team trailing 2–0 and did not play again in the tournament.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 22 June 2006 Hamburg, Germany  Czech Republic 2–0 Win 2006 FIFA World Cup
2 9 July 2006 Berlin, Germany  France 1–1 (AET), 5–3 (PSO) Win 2006 FIFA World Cup

Honours

Internazionale

Major:

Minor:

  • Trofeo Tim: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007
  • Birra Moretti Cup: 2001, 2002, 2007
  • Pirelli Cup: 2001 , 2002 , 2003 ,2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010
Italy National Football Team

Personal

References

  1. ^ "Materazzi e i tifosi laziali: amore finito?" (in Italian). Real Soccer. 2006-05-14. Retrieved 2007-05-16.
  2. ^ Bramwell, Neil (17 February 1999). "Barmby sparks Everton deluge". London: The Independent. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  3. ^ Shaw, Phil (23 September 1998). "Dacourt drives Everton through". London: The Independent. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  4. ^ "Materazzi reveals details of Zidane World Cup slur". Reuters. 2006-09-05. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
  5. ^ "And Materazzi's exact words to Zidane were..." The Guardian. London. 2007-08-18. Retrieved 2008-03-18.
  6. ^ Tryhorn, Chris (2008-04-07). Zidane headbutt victim wins Star apology. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2009-02-09.
  7. ^ Materazzi wins British libel damages over Sun's claims about Zidane head-butt. The Guardian (2009-02-06). Retrieved on 2009-02-09.

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