Comments on: World Cup awards are perplexing

By: john

john — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:25:58 +0000

@zidaneisking

Your are obviously a pretty simple person so i’ll keep my response and easy reading for you.

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regards
john

By: zidaneisking

zidaneisking — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:53:21 +0000

italy can only win when they have a fascist dictator corrupting the tournament or they have a corruption scandal back home (Paolo Rossi was in the middle of a 2-year match-fixing ban when he was asked to play in the 1982 world cup) – so the next time there’s a scandal going on in italy (not too difficult to predict, it’s pretty common), they’ll win. Otherwise, they can’t find the balls to achieve anything.

By: john

john — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:10:38 +0000

@Phil

I could have sworn Italy just beat France to win their fourth world cup.

I agree with you that it has been very difficult to beat France in the past. It was impossible in 1990 and 1994 since they didn’t even qualify for the world cup.

regards
john

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:27:01 +0000

Everyone knows that France thanks to Zidane has been the best team in the world of the 10 past year…dig in history ..last italian victory over France in 1978 and Brazilian ? 1992.

By: rawky

rawky — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 14:17:38 +0000

Try going ot the Italy page, they all dissin Zidane. All love Zidane!!!! Forever Zidane

shut up Tigbert and Pete

By: Tigbert

Tigbert — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:28:02 +0000

^^^^so true.

By: Pete Prompton

Pete Prompton — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:46:56 +0000

Zidane is stupid…Viva Italia..
Soccer is a pussy sport ot begin with.

By: e

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:09:22 +0000

Frankly, I believe the best teams of the tourtament were italy, germany, and argentina. They were all on the same side of the draw. That’s why only one of them went to the finals. On the otherside of the draw, you had france, brazil, england, and spain. I found the first three really lousy. Brazil looked very hesitant against ghana, relying on goals that should have been marked offside, which completely changed the course of the game, considering ghana dominated play prior. Ghana has asserted that favoritism was brought to brazil, perhaps the same favoritism that caused brazil to beat turkey four years ago, where refs gave brazil bogus penalties. England can’t score goals even on inferior teams. They relied on that beckham kick to win the game. Spain looked very amateur, owing to the age of the team. And it seemed that france relied on penalty kicks to get to the finals. I’m sorry but the penalty on portugal and the penalty on italy were not penalties. French players love diving inside the box apparently. Watch the two dives for yourself. Video replay doesn’t lie. The best teams were definitely italy, argentina, and germany. Unfortunately they all were on the same side of the draw. Otherwise two of those three would have ended up meeting in the finals.

By: kasets

kasets — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 04:34:47 +0000

I thought from start to finsih canavarro played great and deserved the golden ball.

One great game by zidane v brasil doesn’t make a golden ball winner.

As far as coaches go i think both klinsmann and lippi deserve a great deal of praise.

By: Schoppenhauer

Schoppenhauer — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:07:34 +0000

Arthur, I almost agree… Zidane should have said to Matrazzi “Yo, your Momma can’t cook”. M’s mother died when M was 15, so that would have been even less appropriate….