Italy beat France in penalty shootout in final

Reuters ^ | 7/9/06 | Al Reuters

[Porterville]

I knew france would lose. I didn't even have to watch. People, please stop using the capital "F" when mentioning anything francophone.

[hometoroost]

I missed the World Cup because I was painting a couple of rooms in the house and chose to watch them dry but anytime France loses especially to Italy or Germany it's a good day. Congratulations Italy and thanks for knocking off the cheese-eating head-butting surrender monkeys.

[racing fan]

Also, french fries are now called freedom fries.

[Moose4]

Zidane's the veteran, supposedly the "grand old man" of that team, right? So why the blazes would he do something so utterly stupid as get himself red-carded, in a 1-1 tie, in a World Cup final that's probably the last game of his career? That's a brainfart of legendary proportions.

}:-)4

[.cnI redruM]

That was the most exciting play of the World Cup!

[Normal4me]

I quit watching it a month ago. *yawn* :-)

[Alexander Rubin]

Ditto.

[goonie4life9]

So if you find the World Cup boring, why do you waste your time posting on this thread?

[slapshot]

after the CF of a first game the US woke up. too bad the officials screwed the US whenever they had a chance

[TomB]

I quit watching it a month ago. *yawn*

Since it only started a month ago, I guess you can say before you started wathing it you stopped.

How very Kerry.

[Normal4me]

I don't find FReeping a waste of time. Hell, I'll comment on anything. LOL

[goonie4life9]

Fair enough.

[SkyPilot]

I just found out on the other thread that the head butt jerk on the team (Zinedine Zidane) is a French Muslim.

Zinedine Zidane (Arabic: زين الدين زيدان‎ transliteration: Zīn ad-Dīn Zīdān), (born June 23, 1972 in Marseille, France), popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French Football player of Kabyle Algerian descent who has starred for both the French national team and for four club teams, most recently Real Madrid.

[SkyPilot]

Related thread:

Zidane sent off in extra time of World Cup final for headbutt

[OldFriend]

Well, my innocent little babe. To refer to all these soccer players as fellow sportsmen is a bit over the top.....to say the least.

Many of the games had the authenticity of a hollywood barroom brawl.

[Traveler59]

There was a soccor game going on???

I was watching something else.....

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/pgStory?contentId=5676192&pageNumber=1

-Traveler

[OldFriend]

You are correct. When Zidane went off the French team had to play one man short. There was NO substitute for Zidane.

[Alberta's Child]

FIFA ought to just dispense with the first 120 minutes and go right to the shoot-out.

Other than the awful officiating in some of these games, I'd say the number of games that were ultimately determined by penalty shots had to be the most embarrassing aspect of this World Cup.

[over3Owithabrain]

The actions of the majority of the players in this World Cup was pathetic and made the Cup almost unwatchable at times. If this is the norm for worldwide soccer, no wonder it is a bust here in the US. Whining, rolling on the ground faking injuries, slapping and fighting, hissy fits, lack of offense, shoddy goal kick attempts, etc.

I tried to be the non-ugly American and enjoy the soccer matches, but all I kept thinking is that I couldn't wait for REAL men playing REAL football in a couple months. These crybabies rolling on the ground for 5 minutes (as the clock runs, duh) because they got a kick in the shin is lame. Let "the world" have their gay sport, I'll take my Sunday Ticket and wave the red white and blue proudly.

[OldFriend]

Who knew there was crying in soccer. Sheesh.

I spent a lot of time watching soccer these two weeks and now I feel the complete fool.

Until today I watched on Univision most of the time.

Listening to the ABC announcers today was more painful then that last headbut by Butthead Zidane.

Bring on football!!!!!