World Cup 2006 thread

Who is going to win the World Cup 2006 in Germany?

  • Brazil

    Votes: 77 26.1%
  • Argentina

    Votes: 15 5.1%
  • England

    Votes: 39 13.2%
  • Germany

    Votes: 49 16.6%
  • Italy

    Votes: 22 7.5%
  • Holland

    Votes: 16 5.4%
  • USA

    Votes: 17 5.8%
  • Portugal

    Votes: 15 5.1%
  • South Korea

    Votes: 5 1.7%
  • Other (state country in your answer)

    Votes: 40 13.6%

  • Total voters
    295
K2! said:
I'm wondering what Matarazzi said. He must have said something. Of course that still isn't an excuse for Zidane's action.

And btw, he has done something stupid before (1998 against Saudi Arabia).

As for this game. I think the 1st hald was for Italy, second half and extra time for France, and the penalties for Italy.

They have just announced what he said on the radio this morning: "Help! My heart's stopped! Do something quickly!".
 
Our country has solved the WM organisations quite well...no bombs, no terrorism, no nazis, no anger...everything went well...this is really a great moment...hundreds of countries, millions of people, strange religions, skins, and cultures...but during that WM, everyone lives in peoce, together...this is really great...unfortunately Zidane didn´t like that feeling...such a great career...and now...unbelievable...i hink his new home is the mars... the only place where he can live now...but anyway, i want to thank all of you outhere...this WM changed Germany forever...thanks....:wave2:
 
Boricua111118 said:
Cant believe Zidane did that... if anyone finds out what the other guy said plz post it because it had to be something really bad... I heard it was a racial slur... but I dunno
On the grass, Zidane's not the perfect "Mr. niceguy" he is outside.
In 1998, during the game VS Saudi arabia the Arabians just keeps iritating him. It end with Zidane walking oh the back of on of them.
Red card and à 2-games suspension.
 
picard2893 said:
Our country has solved the WM organisations quite well...no bombs, no terrorism, no nazis, no anger...everything went well...this is really a great moment...hundreds of countries, millions of people, strange religions, skins, and cultures...but during that WM, everyone lives in peoce, together...this is really great...unfortunately Zidane didn´t like that feeling...such a great career...and now...unbelievable...i hink his new home is the mars... the only place where he can live now...but anyway, i want to thank all of you outhere...this WM changed Germany forever...thanks....:wave2:

Yeah , Thanks to germany for a great World cup!
 
I enjoyed the World Cup. Congrats to Italy. It must have been hard to focus fully on what was going on with all the problems back in Italy.
 
agggelos21 said:
22/309 votes for Italy!
definetely an outsider!!!!

congrats to my neighboors for their awesome victory!!! :thumbsup:


they had like 13 before they made it to the final :cool:
 
I will admit I voted for Holland. Although when I saw the draw for the quarter final I put a bet on that Italy would get to the final, only problem was I had them playing Spain.
 
jumbo_jim said:
I will admit I voted for Holland. Although when I saw the draw for the quarter final I put a bet on that Italy would get to the final, only problem was I had them playing Spain.

Holland had more possibilities, but Van Basten made some mistakes (letting v.d. Vaart play, he played really bad because he wasn't fully recovered of his injury is one of them). But now Van Basten told us that the WC was just a practice for Euro 2008, yeah right.
 
agggelos21 said:
22/309 votes for Italy!
definetely an outsider!!!!

congrats to my neighboors for their awesome victory!!! :thumbsup:
I didn't even vote for france (aka others), my vote went to holland !

I feel obviously very sad about this match, cause I think we dominated most of the game. f***ing Italian cheaters :thefinger
The first penalty was a bit malicious for Italy, no strong fault but watching later in the game the ref forgot a stronger fault that could have cause another french penalty.
Italy also did quite a good match, showed how much their defence is strong, they also succeeded to beat french defence and score the only real goal of this final.
But I maintain that france dominated the game, even at 10vs11 in the last tens mins.
Loosing by penalty isn't really loosing, it just make the loose even more bitter... we miss this worldcup just by a matter of centimeters, zidane shooted his peno on the post and it scored, trezeget shooted the same but don't have the luck of zidane :(
I think I would have prefered to see france loosing by a 3-1 and being really dominated by italia... it was a damn boring tie game :******:

I think both team played well during the worldcup and showed some amazing football, peno's are cruels, we managed to beat italy at it in '98, we can't win all times...

France return with a silver medals that's not bad at all, 3 weeks ago, I wasn't even hopping them to qualify in the 8th-finals.
Zidane did something bad but like Johan said before, he is not an angel on the grass and already showed before that he have an impulsive temperament (that's not its first headbutt)
Matarazzi may have known that and played with Zidane's nerves, it logically ended up with a deserved headbutt and a deserved red card. I'm also wondering to know what he really said to him..
We still showed some great game without Zidane...

anyways, I wish to all Italians people and freeones members (BNF & co.) to enjoy the fiesta we didn't have in france and please to don't flam us too much poor little ashamed french during these 4 long years :thumbsup:
 
Well I think the French was the far better team and lost sadly. 9inch the first was a penalty but the second your talking about wasn't. They say the Italians was the best team throughout the finals, but I disagree, that was Germany. They played well from the very first game and kept up, the Italians had one or two bad games.

I see England got there just derserves and was picked as the most boring side. But I still blame the manager as did Blatter who announced this.
 
9inch said:
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Matarazzi may have known that and played with Zidane's nerves, it logically ended up with a deserved headbutt and a deserved red card. I'm also wondering to know what he really said to him..
We still showed some great game without Zidane...

He told Zidane that he'd ***** with his ****** the previous night, and that she is an Algerian whore. His ****** is in hospital.
 
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sad, sad day for zizou, france and the world of football. where to start? I guess from the beggining. both teams were equally great in the first half. Id say italy had the edge as france played a more defensive game saving their energy for the second half and if need-be overtime (which of course there was). italy's corners were all equally dangerous while zizou's penalty made me believe that he would infact take france to glory. not so.

second half- france was playing OVERWHELMINGLY better than italy. ball possesion, chances, italy had nothing on them. it was only a matter of time before all those chances turned into a goal and the header from zidane only made thing seem more optomistic. then out of fucking nowhere, in a fit of rage zidane singlehandedly taints his career, loses the cup for france and disgraces himself in the final game of his professional life. I dont know what that italian player said to him but it mustve struck a nerve to the point where he just snapped. Ive never seen him so un-professional. he lost his cool, his flare. a sad, sad sight.

fast forward to france with one man down. italy still couldnt touch them. france was clearly the better team. italy couldnt get the ball past midfield and france was dominating (albiet without less chances due to zizou's absence) the match. but of course without their captain they just couldnt pull of a goal.

penalty kicks- barthez did his best. I dont blame him. without zizou, the man that never misses a penalty, they were bound to lose. the morale was down, the odds were against them. italy was clearly the favourite here. and so it eneded...on a sad note. all the work, and all the effort, the tactics, the beautiful football, a mans legacy...all down the toilet because of a single mistake.

I just want to know WHAT WAS IT THAT BASTARD SAID TO HIM??? if only we could read lips, we'd know. but oh well.. so a french football generation ends. Zizou is still one of the best there ever was and ever will be but he shouldnt have went out like this...no one should go out like this.
 

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Exodus said:
I just want to know WHAT WAS IT THAT BASTARD SAID TO HIM???

I'm only posting one (more) thing on this - if and what ever was said... could have been a response to a comment by Zidane himself....

The point is that you can try to look back at who did or said what, but you will not find the beginning - you can only see the result. It's no excuse from my keyboard for anyone - just a fact that what happens on a field, whispered comments, elbows and the like, is a daily occurance and simply a matter, often, of gettin away with it or getting caught.
 
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