Posted on 07/07/2006 8:05:16 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
The World Cup Final will be held Sunday in Berlin at 2 p.m. ET (ABC).
Germany will face Portugal to play for third place on Saturday in Stuttgart at 3 p.m. ET (ESPN).
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gotta say this -- the ghosts of WWII are laid to rest, Germany is now to be viewed as a different entity from that of the 30s and 40s. You support Israel, you make great beer, you throw great footie tournaments and you have a German Pope. As they'd say in Fawlty towers -- don't mention the war
Maybe not, but France were attacking in the OT periods, and even if they didn't score on the field, had ZZ been avaiable, France might have put 5 in the net during the PK.
We don't know for sure how the game would have ended with Zidane IN, but we sure know how it ended with him OUT.
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