“Less Europe, more Italy”, Italian Minister Matteo Salvini attacks Zidane, in the context of the European elections

The Italian minister published a montage on his Twitter account. – Screenshot

After a photo montage of Emmanuel Macron in combat gear, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini published on X a photo showing Zinédine Zidane's headbutt to an Italian player during the final of the 2006 World Cup.

“Less Europe, more Italy”, he wrote on his account on Thursday, in the caption of the two photos, the first showing Zidane's headbutt on Marco Materazzi's bust, which earned the French striker, a Marseille native of Algerian origin, his exclusion.

Zidane excluded, France is beaten by Italy on penalties and the Squadra Azzura is crowned world champion in Berlin. The second photo shows Italian players, including legendary goalkeeper Dino Zoff, lifting the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Boss of the League, an anti-migrant party in difficulty in the polls before the European elections, Matteo Salvini has multiplied publications hostile to France and the European Union (EU) in recent weeks.

"Transferring football-related emotions to political opinion"

On Tuesday, he published a photo montage of Emmanuel Macron in combat gear and armed with an assault rifle, accusing him of wanting to push Europe into war with Russia. "A military escalation and Italian soldiers on the front on the orders of dangerous “bombers” ? No thanks"< /em>, wrote Mr. Salvini, whose party belongs to the government coalition led by Giorgia Meloni.