Posted on 06/29/2006 10:46:37 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
The Elite Eight!! The quarterfinal round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany gets underway Friday with a pair of highly-anticipated matches. The hosts kick things off against Argentina in Berlin (10:55 a.m. ET; ESPN). Italy will face Ukraine in the day's second game (2:55 p.m.; ESPN2).
Two of the quarterfinals are rematches of championship games: Brazil-France (1998) and Germany-Argentina (1986 and 1990).
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Argentina GOOOOOOL!
Is that clip workplace safe?
YEEEEEHAAAAA!
Sure - it's just a collage of most Yahoo photos put to music. You've already seen most of them.
Damn. Come on Germany.
It's about this time the BBC come out with their favourite line:
"You can never write off the Germans"
4 mins since the goal and I'm still waiting. Is this what I pay my licence fee for?
If Argentina wins, they are going to be without their captain, Sorin, in the semis.
You'd think they'd be pretty formidable even without him.
Still a way to go in this though. Germany won't be giving up.
The Krauts look ordinary. Argentina are all over them.
I'm totally shocked at the Germans performance so far.
Same here - they don't look as polished as they normally do.
I agree totally. But Germany looked ordinary a lot of 2002 and reached the final. At the minute it looks more like 2-0 than 1-1 but (cliche alert) "you can't write off the Germans".
Good couple of minutes for Deutschland though.
As I pointed out earlier, since 2000, Germany have only beaten one top flight nation in competition. That's not going to win you the World Cup.
Look for the Argies to be wasting time.
It's going to be a lot of "injured" players lying around.
German fan fest crowd at Berlin.
Thanks for that just had a look!
Who would want a Wayne Rooney mask though? I wouldn't mind having his feet, but not his face.
There will be a lot of people crying into their sausages and warm beer tonight.
If Germany loses, the England supporters are never going to let the Germans hear the end of it, it could get nasty.
I am so cynical, I believe this is also fake.
This is going to take 5 minutes
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