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This World Cup final will be remembered for the fall of Zidane. It was as if the price of some terrible Faustian bargain, “give me greatness, and take from me whatever you want,” had come due. Right when Zidane was about to join the greatest of the great, the likes of Pele and Beckenbauer, he had to pay the price. First, the header that had to be the winning goal (did he know what was happening to him in that moment?), and then the snap: the pointless, casually violent head-butt before the eyes of a billion fans, most of whom loved him and wanted him to be among the immortals, no matter who would have won the final. They say that football is the game of great emotions. It is.

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