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00:00 [Music] 00:00 well what's going on here 00:03 it wasn't supposed to end this way one 00:06 of the game's greatest ever players 00:08 playing his last game as a professional 00:10 in the biggest fixture on the planet 00:14 what was the damn thinking of it would 00:16 be historic 00:17 but not in a way that anyone could ever 00:19 have predicted 00:21 [Applause] 00:28 zinedine zidane wasn't even supposed to 00:31 be there 00:32 having initially retired from 00:34 international football 00:35 two years earlier but here he was 00:38 34 years old persuaded to play a game 00:42 representing france at the 2006 fifa 00:45 world cup germany 00:47 he proved to be his country's talisman 00:50 captaining his side 00:51 as he almost single-handedly led them to 00:54 the final 00:55 zidane scored in the round of 16 win 00:58 over spain 00:59 in the semi-final against portugal and 01:02 had assisted terry henry's quarterfinal 01:05 winner against brazil 01:06 and he will take a free kick here for 01:08 the french france 01:11 these performances would earn him the 01:14 adidas golden ball award 01:16 as the tournament's outstanding player 01:19 however it was what happened in the 01:21 final that would draw the world's 01:23 attention like 01:24 never before that fateful night in 01:27 berlin the last game he would ever play 01:30 a second world cup trophy at stake 01:35 zidane gives france the lead in the most 01:37 audacious fashion see down here 01:40 [Applause] 01:44 one nil to france and sedan on course 01:47 for signing off his career 01:49 in style but italy would equalize no 01:53 more than a dozen minutes later 01:55 halo's corner italy trailed by a goal 01:58 and a level 02:00 a goal scored by defender marco 02:02 matarazzi 02:03 [Applause] 02:06 zidane and matarazzi both on the 02:08 scoresheet 02:09 the game tied into extra time and zidane 02:14 had the chance to write his own 02:16 glorious ending 02:23 how different things might have been had 02:25 this header been as precise 02:27 as his two in the world cup final eight 02:29 years before 02:30 [Applause] 02:33 five minutes later the moment came 02:36 as italy thwart an attack and clear 02:38 their lines sedan 02:40 jogs past matarazzi 02:43 words are exchanged and then it happens 02:48 he's just headed matarazzi in the middle 02:49 of the chest 02:51 and what was saddam thinking of tina 02:54 dean sudan's career 02:56 ends with being sent off in the world 02:58 cup final zidane paid the price 03:00 and so too did his teammates oh and he's 03:03 in the woodwork 03:04 despite the drama matarazzi and the 03:06 italians kept their call in the shootout 03:09 and it's grosso if he scores italy have 03:12 won the world cup 03:14 they have perhaps the most iconic image 03:19 of the 2006 world cup 03:21 isn't of the winning captain fabio 03:24 canavero lifting the trophy 03:26 but of zidane's lonely walk back 03:29 past the trophy as he leaves the pitch 03:34 zidane the flawed genius with a final 03:37 shocking chapter in his legacy 03:39 walked off never to play a game 03:42 the end of a great footballing career 03:45 marked 03:46 by a moment of madness