Materazzi gives thumbs-up after FIFA hearing

“Everything went fine” for Italy’s World Cup-winning defender Marco Materazzi at his meeting with FIFA officials today, according to the player’s agent.

World football’s governing body opened disciplinary proceedings against Materazzi yesterday in an attempt to discover what he said to Zinedine Zidane moments before the Frenchman head-butted him in the Germany 2006 final.