Corporate sponsors not fleeing from Zidane

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The major sponsors of Zinedine Zidane, including Adidas and Danone, are pledging to stick by the French soccer star despite his absurd head-butt in the World Cup final. But what about Marco Materazzi’s sponsors, if he has any? There’s no word so far, but surely they couldn’t be happy with him allegedly calling Zidane a “terrorist” or saying something about his mother or sister. For his part, the Italian player is defending himself by claiming not to even know the definition of “Islamic terrorist.”

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