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Italy defender Marco Materazzi is taking legal action against three British newspapers over their reporting of the incident in last year's World Cup soccer final when he clashed with Zinedine Zidane, the BBC reports.
Zidane responded to verbal provocation by Materazzi by headbutting him to the ground.
Materazzi has decided to seek damages against the Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Star over claims about what he said to the Frenchman, says the Italian's lawyer, Steven Heffer.
