Zidane Hangs with Spike Lee at NBA Game

By: Bob | February 7th, 2007

Perhaps this was FIFA’s punishment for the headbutt in the World Cup Final. Zinedine Zidane spent his Tuesday evening sitting near Arsenal fan Spike Lee and watching an NBA game between the lowly New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers. He was spared the Wayne Rooney treatment from the players. Before anyone starts thinking that Zizou was in the Big Apple to do something fun like negotiate an MLS contract, the word is that he declined to comment at all about the idea of playing in the United States. By the way, Spike Lee could even learn a thing or two from the people who made the stunning documentary Zidane - A 21st Century Portait. Check it out if you have a chance.

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• greg |  February 7th, 2007 at 10:24 am

  
  
  

  Stunning? It’s pointless. I’ve seen it three times. It’s not a soccer movie and it fails miserably at being an ‘art movie’.

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• Anon |  February 7th, 2007 at 10:27 am

  
  
  

  Brilliant comment. You went to see a worthless movie 3 times? What does that say about you?

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• Martha |  February 7th, 2007 at 11:15 am

  
  
  

  I’m with you, Bob — the movie is a phenomenal piece of art, but I’ll agree with greg that it’s definitely not a soccer movie.

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• greg |  February 7th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

  
  
  

  No, Anon, I didn’t ‘go’ to see it at all, I downloaded it for free and watched it three times because I wanted to like it, but found nothing rewarding about it. Have you seen it, Anon? Enjoy the endless shots of Zidane’s eyes, brow, feet, the stadium lights, and all other sorts of crap other than the game. If the point was to show how a genius ‘thinks’ or ‘works’ while in the midst of his art, it took a bad approach. If the point was to show the insignificance or even significance of a football match, it failed miserably. If the point was to be a two hour long boring Mogwai video, kudos. If someone got something better out of it, than congrats. I didn’t it. And don’t give me any Zidane is an absurdist/abstract artist of the pitch. Sorry, he’s not, he just makes some pretty moves… occassionally.

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• Sam |  February 7th, 2007 at 4:27 pm

  
  
  

  Now, what the bloody Sam Hill is Zidane doing there when there’s a France-Argentina to attend to? Weird.

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• Peter |  February 7th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

  
  
  

  It is probably a good thing he didn’t watch France play. They resembled the Knicks today. Might have given him thought to come out of retirement.

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• Mark |  February 7th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

  
  
  

  Well of course it’s not a soccer movie; it’s a documentary. (Granted, I haven’t seen it either, but still)

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• Laurie |  February 7th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

  
  
  

  Actually only the first twenty minutes or so resembled the Knicks. But by then it was too late.

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• La Diva |  February 10th, 2007 at 8:00 am

  
  
  

  I thought it was fun; even though the film didn’t help to ‘unravel zidane’. Anyway, it was nice to watch him picking up dibbits n pushing them back into the ground. It’s not so much a documentary as it is a live action flick! He gets red carded at the end (not for headbutting though).

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