"It was one of those insults you're told tens of times and that always fly around the pitch," he said.
"I used an insult that I've heard used a dozen times and which is heard all the time on the pitch," Materazzi told the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper when asked whether he had insulted Zidane's sister.
"I certainly did not call him a terrorist: I'm ignorant, I don't even know exactly what an Islamic terrorist is ... I also certainly didn't say anything about Zidane's mother: for me, a mother is sacrosanct."
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