Inter Milan hero Marco Materazzi admits he regrets being remembered for Zinedine Zidane's headbutt.

Materazzi, speaking with The Times, recalled Zizou's 2006 World Cup final red card for headbutting the Italy defender.

The World Cup winner sad: "I don't like it. It doesn't do justice to what my career was. That episode never should have happened. In the tension of that final in Berlin, amid the bickering and insults, Zidane offered me his shirt and I said no, that I preferred his sister. Then he turned and reacted as everyone remembers. I never saw him again as Zinedine."

Matrix then, speaking of the friendlies organised with his former team-mates, recalled: "Sharing the pitch again with people like Julio Cesar, Maicon, Zanetti, Lucio, Sneijder, Cambiasso, Figo or Diego Milito is a mixture of happiness and nostalgia. What I miss most is the locker room. That feeling of having a family outside of your own, people with whom you live every day and with whom you share everything."

It was also inevitable to talk about Jose Mourinho: “The best coach I've had. I was used to being important, to being the captain, but with Mourinho I started to lose importance. But he was honest with me from the first moment.

"Farewell to the Bernabeu? We cried. I asked him why he was leaving, why he left me alone. I was convinced that with Mourinho we could continue to win, maybe not another Champions League, but other titles. But he had already decided to leave for Real Madrid."