7.21.2006

Community Service?



Yesterday FIFA announced that French midfield Zinedine Zidane and Italian defender Marco Materazzi will be punished and fined. Materazzi will be fined $4,000 and suspended for two matches for inciting Zidane with off-color comments about his family. Zidane will be fined $6,000 and forced to do community service in France in lieu of a suspension since he is retired. What type of punishment is this? $6,000 is nothing to a superstar of Zidane's level, and doing community service seems less than a slap on the wrist. I think that FIFA really dropped the ball by not coming down harder on the Frenchman for such a violent outburst on the world's biggest stage.

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