Originally posted by lily1:i'll be there too. if you want to watch the game there, come say hi. i'm in a white top and blue and white skirt also…what a coincidence
i'll be there. if you want to watch the game there, come say hi. i'm in a white top and blue and white skirt.
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phooey.
i'll second that. but since italy won, my dad's letting me see camera obscura tonight… so it's not too bad.
and every italian-american i know just got 3 generations closer to actually being BORN in Italy….apparently.
We're having ravioli with italian sausage and marinara for dinner tonight.
i'm so disappointed in zidane. so so so disappointed.
how much do you really think that head butt hurt the other player? you would think it would hurt
zidane's neck more than the other players chest.
zidane's neck more than the other players chest.
Originally posted by lily1:That was such poor sportsmanship, I could hardly believe it. In his last game too. He's regretting that right now, what a stupid, stupid move.
i'm so disappointed in zidane. so so so disappointed.
yeah, dont play dirty football with Italy, they INVENTED it!
not to justify what zizou did, but dude's usually a class act… materazzi must've told him something pretty fucked up to provoke him to do that.
Originally posted by SalParadise:Yeah, that's what I think.. they knew how he would react and they knew that France would be much more vulnerable without him, especially in the penalty.
materazzi must've told him something pretty fucked up to provoke him to do that.
one rumor from the guardian is that materazzi called Zidane a terrorist
not to excuse it but here is a video of how dirty a player materazzi is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGcUr0S-FU
not to excuse it but here is a video of how dirty a player materazzi is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKGcUr0S-FU
Originally posted by lily1:I thought it was great, plus it had no affect on the outcome of the game. After the brilliant save from Buffon on his header, he knew it was going to go to penalties (might as well flip a coin) and he did what many a player have wanted to do to Materazzi and many other Italians for some time. Trezeguet was still going to kick a penalty and miss, but at least Zizou got to take out his frustrations on a deserving party.
i'm so disappointed in zidane. so so so disappointed.
The truth about Materazzi will come out…
Originally posted by vansmack:yep.
Originally posted by lily1:I thought it was great, plus it had no affect on the outcome of the game. After the brilliant save from Buffon on his header, he knew it was going to go to penalties (might as well flip a coin) and he did what many a player have wanted to do to Materazzi and many other Italians for some time. Trezeguet was still going to kick a penalty and miss, but at least Zizou got to take out his frustrations on a deserving party.
i'm so disappointed in zidane. so so so disappointed.
The truth about Materazzi will come out…
and the more i watch this angle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc
the more i'm kinda glad he did it.
i read on another website that the exchange went something like this:
z: "get off of me"
m: "what are you talking about?"
z: "i don't like men to be on me like you're doing"
m: "whatever, i thought all you arabs were gay anyways"
*headbutt*
Zidane wins Golden Ball
Zidane wins Golden Ball as top player
Zinedine Zidane
Associated Press
7/10/2006 9:09:45 AM
BERLIN (AP) - France captain Zinedine Zidane, sent off for head-butting Marco Materazzi late in Sunday's World Cup final loss to Italy, won the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.
The results were released Monday morning in Berlin.
Zidane received 2,012 points in the vote by journalists covering the tournament, beating Italians Fabio Cannavaro (1,977 points) and Andrea Pirlo (715 points) in the ballot.
Zidane, who put France ahead with a penalty kick in the opening minutes, was given a red card after slamming his head into Materazzi's chest during the tense second period of extra time.
It was his last act as a professional player and one that was widely criticized in France and abroad.
With the score tied 1-1 after 120 minutes the French missed Zidane's prowess in the penalty shootout, which Italy calmly won 5-3 to collect its fourth World Cup title.
Zidane, 34, a former international player of the year and 1998 World Cup champion, announced last month that he was retiring from soccer after the tournament.
He wasn't particularly outstanding in France's opening draws with Switzerland and South Korea and missed the last group match against Togo due to suspension. But Zidane produced some vintage performances in the wins over Spain, Brazil and Portugal in the knockout phase.
Voting for the 2006 Golden Ball closed at midnight Sunday. In previous tournaments, the ballot has closed at halftime in the final and the winner announced soon after the match.
Italian captain Cannavaro could be considered unlucky in the voting.
He led an Italian defence that conceded only two goals in the tournament: an own goal against the United States and Zidane's penalty.
The final was his 100th cap for Italy.
"I got my award, that's it right there," Cannavaro said, gesturing toward the World Cup trophy sitting on the table in front of him. "I'm extremely pleased with what I have."
With fellow central defender Alessandro Nesta injured, Cannavaro played every minute of Italy's seven games.
Many pundits tipped Cannavaro as the winner, including 1986 winner Diego Maradona.
"Fabio Cannavaro was the best player of this World Cup," the Argentine great said. "Yes, it was a tournament without one dominant player, but Fabio was huge."
Germany goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball in 2002. Other previous winners were Brazilians Ronaldo (1998) and Romario ('94) and Italy's Salvatore Schillaci ('90).
Germany striker Miroslav Klose was the Golden Shoe winner for the tournament's leading scorer. He won with five goals. Ronaldo won the award in 2002 with eight goals.
Zidane wins Golden Ball as top player
Zinedine Zidane
Associated Press
7/10/2006 9:09:45 AM
BERLIN (AP) - France captain Zinedine Zidane, sent off for head-butting Marco Materazzi late in Sunday's World Cup final loss to Italy, won the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.
The results were released Monday morning in Berlin.
Zidane received 2,012 points in the vote by journalists covering the tournament, beating Italians Fabio Cannavaro (1,977 points) and Andrea Pirlo (715 points) in the ballot.
Zidane, who put France ahead with a penalty kick in the opening minutes, was given a red card after slamming his head into Materazzi's chest during the tense second period of extra time.
It was his last act as a professional player and one that was widely criticized in France and abroad.
With the score tied 1-1 after 120 minutes the French missed Zidane's prowess in the penalty shootout, which Italy calmly won 5-3 to collect its fourth World Cup title.
Zidane, 34, a former international player of the year and 1998 World Cup champion, announced last month that he was retiring from soccer after the tournament.
He wasn't particularly outstanding in France's opening draws with Switzerland and South Korea and missed the last group match against Togo due to suspension. But Zidane produced some vintage performances in the wins over Spain, Brazil and Portugal in the knockout phase.
Voting for the 2006 Golden Ball closed at midnight Sunday. In previous tournaments, the ballot has closed at halftime in the final and the winner announced soon after the match.
Italian captain Cannavaro could be considered unlucky in the voting.
He led an Italian defence that conceded only two goals in the tournament: an own goal against the United States and Zidane's penalty.
The final was his 100th cap for Italy.
"I got my award, that's it right there," Cannavaro said, gesturing toward the World Cup trophy sitting on the table in front of him. "I'm extremely pleased with what I have."
With fellow central defender Alessandro Nesta injured, Cannavaro played every minute of Italy's seven games.
Many pundits tipped Cannavaro as the winner, including 1986 winner Diego Maradona.
"Fabio Cannavaro was the best player of this World Cup," the Argentine great said. "Yes, it was a tournament without one dominant player, but Fabio was huge."
Germany goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball in 2002. Other previous winners were Brazilians Ronaldo (1998) and Romario ('94) and Italy's Salvatore Schillaci ('90).
Germany striker Miroslav Klose was the Golden Shoe winner for the tournament's leading scorer. He won with five goals. Ronaldo won the award in 2002 with eight goals.
Originally posted by pdx pollard:Now I know he did it. Anybody who claims to not know what the word terrorist means is definitely hiding something.
one rumor from the guardian is that materazzi called Zidane a terrorist
Materazzi denies calling Zidane 'terrorist'
ROME, July 10 (Reuters) - Italy defender Marco Materazzi on Monday denied a report that he had called Zinedine Zidane a 'dirty terrorist' seconds before the French captain head-butted him in Sunday's World Cup final.
'It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means,' the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.
'The whole world saw what happened on live TV,' he added.
The Paris-based anti-racism group SOS Racism had earlier quoted well informed sources as saying Materazzi had apparently used the phrase.
'According to several very well informed sources from the world of football, it would seem that the Italian player Marco Materazzi called Zinedine Zidane a 'dirty terrorist',' SOS Racism said in a statement.
Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was shown a red card after the incident and Italy went on to win on penalties after the match was tied 1-1 following extra time.
SOS Racism called for an inquiry and said world soccer's governing body FIFA had recently toughened sanctions against racism.
'It's for this reason that SOS Racism asks in a determined fashion for FIFA to shed light on this altercation and that sanctions laid out in the official rules be applied should this be the case,' SOS Racism said.
French television reported that Zidane would talk about the incident 'in the coming days'.
Brennser - I can't be arsed reading your post, the first sentence was enough. No English person that I'm aware of is blaming Ronaldo for putting England out of the world cup…everyone is blaming England (namely that useless pile of feces that was the manager, but that's for another topic on another day) They underperformed and as usual can't kick a penalty if their lives depended on it, the only player who scored is Germany based. No, the bad feeling towards the little portugese twat is that he not only got another professional sent off, he got his club team mate sent off. The *wink* to his bench after the fact confirmed his intentions….not only that, but the simple fact that both the French and German fans booed the little wanker everytime he touched the ball during the matches that followed the incident should tell you something, because neither the Germans or French would have any sympathy for England.
The ref should have his badges taken from him, because there was absolutely no way he was giving a card of any colour before Ronaldo put his nose in it, he was most definately persuaded after the fact…he called a direct free kick and that was it. If you can't see that then watch it in slow motion!!!!!!
I've seen the video of the incident quite a few times and I'm still convinced that there was absolutely no intent on Rooney's part to stamp on the blokes nuts…..I don't even see a *stamp*… he lost his balance plain and simple…besides, why was there no foul called while Rooney was getting kicked to shit just before that? I'll tell you why, because unlike some (or is that most?) players he refuses to go down, let alone dive in a way that would make Greg Leganus (sp?) proud.
If this diving shit isn't cut out of football then I'm going to have to start watching GAA or something, and that thought is just scary.
And for the record…the French penalty last night was not a penalty. The fullback was pulling out of the tackle, the Frog tripped over his own feet…. and the Italian goal that was disallowed was not offside, the player who was in an offside position was not the player who headed the ball in the net, so was not interfering with play, and so it was not an offside….in the new rule anyway. The score should have been 2-0 for Italy after 90 minutes, so justice was served during the penalty shoot-out.
The ref should have his badges taken from him, because there was absolutely no way he was giving a card of any colour before Ronaldo put his nose in it, he was most definately persuaded after the fact…he called a direct free kick and that was it. If you can't see that then watch it in slow motion!!!!!!
I've seen the video of the incident quite a few times and I'm still convinced that there was absolutely no intent on Rooney's part to stamp on the blokes nuts…..I don't even see a *stamp*… he lost his balance plain and simple…besides, why was there no foul called while Rooney was getting kicked to shit just before that? I'll tell you why, because unlike some (or is that most?) players he refuses to go down, let alone dive in a way that would make Greg Leganus (sp?) proud.
If this diving shit isn't cut out of football then I'm going to have to start watching GAA or something, and that thought is just scary.
And for the record…the French penalty last night was not a penalty. The fullback was pulling out of the tackle, the Frog tripped over his own feet…. and the Italian goal that was disallowed was not offside, the player who was in an offside position was not the player who headed the ball in the net, so was not interfering with play, and so it was not an offside….in the new rule anyway. The score should have been 2-0 for Italy after 90 minutes, so justice was served during the penalty shoot-out.
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:and the italians are the biggest offenders of diving…
If this diving shit isn't cut out of football then I'm going to have to start watching GAA or something, and that thought is just scary.
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:Poetic justice in my eyes…what goes around comes around.
And for the record…the French penalty last night was not a penalty. The fullback was pulling out of the tackle, the Frog tripped over his own feet….
In fairness though, Malouda didn't get a call the rest of the game, including the one time he was taken down in the box and should have been awarded a penalty.