Posted on 06/19/2006 2:54:14 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Switzerland and Togo meet in a Group G match at 8:55 a.m. ET (ESPN2) in Dortmund. Saudi Arabia and Ukraine match up in the day's second game, a Group H affair that starts at 11:55 a.m. (ESPN2) in Hamburg. In the final match of the day, Spain encounters Tunisia at 2:55 p.m. (ESPN2) in Stuttgart.
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I ignored them for 10 days :)
I guess everyone is a hero behind a keyboard.
Sorry... it's a joke. Italian defenseman Zaccardo scored an "own goal" in the US/Italy match that gave team USA its only goal. My comment was just a little "piling on" needling...
Great pity about Zidane. Not a very auspicious way for a great player to exit the game.
I award a red card to the ref!
I don't think so. I think Dr. Renee Richards had to wait one tournament IIRC.
I don't see why everyone is so upset about that yellow card to Zidane. Maybe I got fooled, but it looked like he needlessly stomped on the back of the defender's leg -- and pretty much after the play -- when he couldn't get to the ball.
He deserved a yellow for that, and he already had a yellow from the first game, it's not as if they gave him a red card.
I don't have a problem with the second yellow for Zidane or for Pope for that matter.
A second yellow in a game should send a player off, but NOT suspend for the next game.
Yellow cards should not carry over from one game forward.
A straight red deserves a suspension, such as the brutal elbow to McBride.
The straight red inflicted on the USA was uncalled for and a clear make-up call.
JMHO.
Kalishenko(sp) scores for Ukraine, making it a 4-0 score.
So Ukraine is now back to level on Goal Differential.
And the Saudis still have 0 shots on goal. Good!
Makes Spain's win all the more impressive.
As a general rule, any Player who has already represented one Association (either in full or in part) in an official competition of any category may not play an international match with another Association team.
Ukraine need only a draw now going into the Tunisia game (assuming Spain don't lose tonight).
It's "da rulz" -- it's meant to keep players from taking cheap shots at the end of games, knowing that a single caution doesn't matter.
I think most leagues have similar rules -- accumulate X number of yellows, sit out a match.
Germans beat the Saudis 8-0, so the Ukrainians still have work to do.
With fans around the world excitedly cheering on their teams, FIFA today announced another record in visiting FIFAworldcup.com. In 2002, the Official Website attracted just over two billion page views for the entire tournament and this time FIFAworldcup.com is already halfway to that mark after only one week.
With 1.2 billion page views it is the largest one-week total in the history of the site. The most successful day to date was Monday, 12 June with 226 million page views by 6.2 million visitors. Overall an average of five million fans have visited FIFAworldcup.com each day during the tournament.
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/060617/1/7rwo.html
I like the rule for precisely that reason.
I also would like to see a rule, that for every 10 fouls during a game, you lose a player for the rest of the match.
That would cut down on the excessive fouling, it's worse than the NBA.
FULL TIME
UKRAINE 4-0!
I don't have a problem with those rules in a league format, but in a tournament it makes no sense.
Any brutal assault can get a straight red.
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