First captain to be sent off in a World-Cup Final

Zinedine Zidane, ex-captain of France, became on 09/07/06 the first team captain ever to be sent off in a World-Cup Final. He was the fourth player ever to be sent off in a World-Cup Final. The others were Pedro Monzon and Gustavo Dezotti of Argentina in the 1990 World-Cup Final against Germany (thus making that final the only one in which two players have been dismissed), and Marcel Desailly of France in the 1998 final against Brazil. Argentina lost in 1990, but France won in 1998.

Zidane did, however, score before being sent off on 09/07/06. Since he also scored twice in the 1998 final, he became the fourth man to score in two World-Cup finals after Brazilians Vava (who scored twice in 1958 while winning against Sweden, and once while winning against the Czechs in 1962) and Pele (who also scored twice in 1958 against Sweden, and once while winning against Italy in 1970), and Germany's Paul Breitner (who scored once in 1982 while losing against Italy, and once in 1974 while winning against the Netherlands). Geoff Hurst scored three goals in the 1966 World-Cup Final for England against West Germany, and he remains the only person to have got a hat-trick in a World-Cup Final.