Statue of Zidane’s head unveiled in Qatar / Hector who failed but took home the honor

Fars News Agency – Art and Media Group: These days, under the pretext of the World Cup, a five-meter bronze statue of Zinedine Zidane hitting Marco Materazzi on the chest has been exposed in Qatar. A decade ago, when the best player of the generation hit his opponent in the chest in the World Cup final, the incident soon became the most newsworthy topic in sports and non-sports circles. Even theorists and philosophers wrote and theorized about his work. Under the pretext of installing this statue, we will first look at the views that were raised in those days, and then we will examine the controversy surrounding the installation of this urban statue.

In the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane kicked Marco Materazzi in the head to prepare for his dismissal, before the French national team lost to Italy on penalties and lost the chance to win the title.

Risky, crazy and rare

The captain of the French national team, a symbolic boy who fought for the difficult racial unity in his country and was expelled from the field in the biggest possible game. As soon as he did that, his playing time ended. Of course, if we forget his Panenka penalty.

Even more than a decade after that event, that event is still a great truth that came from instinct, and now they have turned that movement over and over again, shown it again, and displayed it from a thousand angles and light and sound with a thousand words and hadiths. . Choosing a outcome from that event is difficult. Did he become a superstar and a legend, or did that blow turn him into another simple athlete who was captured by fate and, like the tragedies of ancient Greece, became a defeated hero of fate?

Zidane was a champion in France at the same time. With the Blues, he had the world of football under his feet. He had won the World Cup and the Euro. Reporters knew that his behavior on earth was always “instinctive, instantaneous.” These were the characteristics of the moment that made him angry quickly. In the same days, the newspaper Equipe wrote that he was a “principal … with a positive connotation.” (Refers to the main instinct)

In that game, France lost and the Italians took home the cup, but earned the title of “football extract”.

Theater critic Anne Delby attributes the story to the story of Hector and Achilles. Zidane was like Hector who lost but took home the honor. He escaped the “temptation to be mediocre and lower himself to victory.” He was a gentleman who was compared to Don Quixote. Those who saw their character above pride.

Liberation newspaper read Zidane’s behavior as follows:

Zidane’s last act was now celebrated for his purity. He took football from a world with strict rules to an instinctive spirit at the heart of the game. The referee became a symbol of the organs that wanted to bring Zidane to his knees, but he did not. The game was back to its roots. In Zidane’s overly masculine world, talking about pride is becoming more common every day. Due to the culture of defending himself and his family against insults, Zidane’s childhood roots reappeared.

Postcolonial analyzes also emerged. At first, the French media criticized Zidane, and the team asked people if Zidane was a good role model for our children. Algerian newspapers wrote that France wanted the profits from the migrants but justified the failures by blaming them. Now this incident went far beyond football. Fidel Castro said the Algerian player was punished in two ways; The first was the insult to him and the second was his dismissal. All this talk leads us to say that Zidane’s behavior is not because he did not control his anger, but is a completely voluntary act. This was his last game and instead of the referee whistling for him, he leaves the scene just when he likes. According to Liberation, it was Nietzschean behavior.

Belgian filmmaker Jean-Philippe Toussaint described Panenka Zidane’s strike as “risky, insane and rare”. He says his blow to the head was about the same size. It was the behavior of a man who saw the game quite differently from anyone else.

Take a look at the background of urban sculpture

The origins of sculpture go back to ancient Greece when artists of that time represented the body of myths. Later, during the Renaissance (15th century Italy), with the return of ancient ideas, sculpture became popular again and became very important. Michelangelo was the most famous artist of that time.

In the seventeenth century, known as the Baroque era, sculptures gradually found their way into public spaces and urban arenas. In the last hundred years, sculpture has always been an important part of public spaces and urban spaces and has always been of interest to citizens. Classical philosophers such as Hegel considered the culmination of art to be in the form of Greek sculptures, because in his view form and content were placed in the most ideal balance possible in these figures. In Iran, urban sculpture is more than a hundred years old. The city of Tehran is full of small and large sculptures that are located on the corners of streets and squares. Now, with this long historical background in Qatar, a statue with the theme of a human body has been displayed for the first time. A statue depicting Zidane’s blow to Materazzi’s chest under the pretext of the Qatar World Cup.

The story of Zidane’s five-meter statue

The story of this five-meter bronze statue of Zinedine Zidane hitting Marco Materazzi on the chest dates back to 2013, when it was unveiled in Qatar. But just days after the unveiling, some Qataris called for the statue to be removed for promoting idolatry, while others described the statue as encouraging violence. Finally, the Qatari government responded positively to the protests and removed the controversial statue of Zinedine Zidane.

But Sheikh al-Mayasah al-Thani, the director of Qatar Museums, who is also the sister of the ruler of Qatar, announced yesterday that the work would be re-installed six months before the start of the World Cup. “Progress and evolution happen in societies. It takes time and people may criticize something at first, but then they understand the concept and get used to it. Zidane is a great friend of Qatar and he is a role model,” he said. “It’s great for the Arab world. Art, like everything else, is a matter of taste, and our goal is to empower the people of Qatar.”

The world’s media wrote that: Although the statues are easily displayed in many Muslim countries, including Iran, such a thing is less common among the Arab countries along the Persian Gulf.

“The purpose of this work is to promote dialogue about the stress of athletes, as well as the importance of addressing mental health issues,” al-Mayasa said of Qatar’s purpose for depicting the statue. “Zidane is a great friend of Qatar and people love him as a great role model for the Arab world,” he said. “Art is like anything else, and some people may not like it, but our goal is to introduce people to it.”

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