World Cup 2006....babbbby! - Page 4

**Aaron_S** · 07-04-06, 10:42 PM

Italy beats out Germany with less than 2 minutes left in extra time! Pretty sweet ending to the entire thing. Kept going back and forth.

Shad0w · 07-05-06, 08:14 AM

Forza Azzurri!!!!

Viva Italia!!!!!!!!!!!! :d

BOAS_N_PYTHONS · 07-05-06, 10:20 AM

Italy vs Germany.

An amazing game indeed, a well deserved win for Italy. Tensions here with Italy and Portugal are getting rather extreme as both teams have a love / hate relationship during the Euro and World. But I enjoyed the game and as said well deserved win over Germany, although like most of the world I also believe Ukraine was robbed with those 12 seconds against Italy. If it went to penalties who knows who would of won there, but 12 seconds and a penalty vote for Italy seems to well planned and the world saw it and felt Ukraine was robbed. So did Italy deserve to face Germany, maybe but not with that single goal.

All 4 teams left deserve there chance at that cup, I don' t know all the history of each team. But 3 have already won this cup before. So Portugal I believe is the hungriest of the 4 to win it. Taking out England was amazing as they only needed to know our team was all yellow carded. Beckam and Roonie totaly ruined it for England so I thank them

Since the last 16, what I felt would happened with some teams didn' t and there has been a weird way of turn out as well, if this goes to the final then its easy to see Portugal vs Italy. In this happening watch the news it won' t be pretty as both nations will exploit the others loss. Every city with a little Italy and a little Portugal will be celebrating the others defeat.

So...............Forca Portugal

BOAS_N_PYTHONS · 07-05-06, 08:17 PM

Well it would have been an amazing game if Portugal faced Italy, just because of the amount of fans on both sides in our province and most likely all of Canada. Although a sad day for Portugal the winners there are still part of me as well, so I' ll cheer them on and hope they take out Italy.

Both were champions before so it will be an amazing game as well. I was so surprized, well maybe not that I only saw 2 cars with French flags through out this whole tournament. Guess I' ll be the 3rd

Now were are aiming for 3rd place, but let' s get real nobody remembers 2nd let alone 3rd so will we really try and take 3rd with Germany. Maybe....but is it really worth it

Here is a list of winners since the World Cup has been active and how many times they won.

BRAZIL : 5
ITALY : 3
GERMANY : 3
URUGUAY : 2
ARGENTINE : 2
ENGLAND : 1
FRANCE : 1

**Aaron_S** · 07-07-06, 01:23 PM

I hope to see Italy beat France. I think they will, France didn't play too well against Portugal and got mainly lucky near the end with all the chances Portugal missed. Definetely both games left will be entertaining. I don't think Germany would let them be pushed out of the top spots on their own grounds! I expect them to beat Portugal. Hopefully they do as I have them in my pool

BOAS_N_PYTHONS · 07-07-06, 02:48 PM

Aaron, way funny!

I don' t see Portugal winning Germany, I am hoping for it but I also don' t see the host country losing 1st, 2nd, and now 3rd. The politics in sports and with soccer is rather unique but it can be seen that a host country wants some glory no matter what.

As for France and Italy, hmmm France took its time building up to be where they are and well Italy got some real nice referees. I am hoping for 90 minutes of clean masterful skill work, just hoping the yellow card happy referees let these guys battle it out as the world wants.

If indeed it is a fair game between Portugal vs Germany I see it going to shoot out with 3 - 4. And France and Italy at 2 - 1. If I get these right I' ll try lotto next

Shad0w · 07-09-06, 05:40 PM

FORZA AZZURRI!!!!!!!!!!!!! We did it ... WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate that it came down to penalty kicks, but a win is a win.

Besides, I feel that the sole goal that France got was unjust... that pentalty call was wrong IMO.

Not to mention I cannot believe what Zidane did... what a poor way of going out and ending his career...

I was also disgusted in how many of the France players, including their coach took their second place medals off and stuffed them in their pockets as soon as they were awarded to them... VERY POOR sportsmanship...

BOAS_N_PYTHONS · 07-09-06, 06:59 PM

Agreed.

Great game and no matter what it took 120 minutes to prove both teams were great....no matter what the gain was to get each goal (don' t forget Australia - Bob

)

A shoot out is ok, not the best way to win.....but with Zidane going that way for red card, Henry pulling out in last few minutes......hmmm our 2 best penalty guys out..........the game was good but fishy. Zidane is to retire going that way was not great but people don' t remember the great with great background they remember the choas and well he did it and buried France after bringing them to the top....who knows why. I am sure he is mature enough to know what he was doing and what will be the out come from it, hope the money was worth it to sacrafice a career in good name and a country that loved him. May never hear why he did it but the 200 million dollar Italian scandal is in court now, as a joke who knows how much of that went to the games and right people

But like I said great game up to about 120 minutes....that alone says 2 champions can not beat each other in a fair game. The shoot out was good, but its really just luck and alot of pressure on those goalies.

Oh well 2 more years Euro and 4 for next World.......congrats Italy.

**Aaron_S** · 07-09-06, 07:46 PM

Sweet game! France did exceptionally well in the second half. Buffon kept Italy alive to make it to the penalty kicks. Well deserved places for both teams.

Truely terrible how Zidane put himself out of the game with such a stupid incident! Too much on the line to let an opponent talking smack get to you. Especially for a captain.

I was right about Germany! Never would a host team let themselves be kicked out of the top 3. Or they'll at least go down with a fight. Sucks though, only got second place in my pool. I can't complain since I knew absolutely nothing other than that England and Brazil are the top teams going into the tournament. Everyone else is pretty much on par with some crappier teams thrown into it.

Shad0w · 07-09-06, 08:50 PM

For those that missed the game, here is the infamous Zidane head butt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1i_l0OeeMc

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HeavenlyHerps · 07-17-06, 10:10 AM

Im not much of a sports fan myself but living in Italy I had no choice but to go and watch the last 4 games. I tell you one thing, when Italy and the US tied, being American I had to hide in the back of a bar. A friend of mine got his American flag stollen right out of his hand, when the car that took it came back they tossed it on the ground and ran over peeling out in there car. The Military base told us to either stay in doors or stay were we were at untill the Italians calmed down. Crazy stuff, when Italy one the cup the whole town went nuts. Even the old Italian ladys came out of there houses and started yelling and tossing French Fries out into the streets. There was French Fries being tossed out windows and cars, it was nuts. After the local girls started taking there shirts off I headed back in the bar were the owner was handing out free shots. Just thought I would toss that all in, figured some foot ball fans would like to know what happend out here.:zi: