#316 | The World Cup’s Five Biggest Controversies
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The World Cup Controversy Between France and Italy
Zidane has never confirmed publicly what it was, but many believe it was something incredibly insulting about Zidane's family. In 2020, Matarazzi said in an interview that Zidane had told him, I'll give you my shirt later, to which he'd rather have his sister than his shirt. The Italians' arrival in France in 1938 came at a tense time of anti-Italian and anti-fascist sentiment. When the Italian squad came to Marseille, 3,000 people took to the streets to protest against the team as they played on behalf of Benito Mussolini’s regime. Now as you will likely know, both France and Italy traditionally play in
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