You Idiot! What were you thinking?
Today's World Cup Final was a very exciting game. Although I am not a fan of either Italy or France, I had a good reason to root for France. LittleDrummerBoy was running a World Cup pool among a group of 16 soccer fans. Each of us drew a team at the beginning of the knockout stages at random. If your team won, you win the entire prize ($80 total). I drew France.
However, I really did not like either team. Italy is a pathetic bunch of divers that disgrace the game of soccer. France has their share of divers, but I had tremendous respect for Zidane and Ribery since they are both fantastic players and very excited to watch.
The game started well for me with an early France goal (on a BS PK call), but Italy fought back and tied the game a little later. In the second half, France dominated, but unfortunately they could not score. Italy appeared to be playing for penalty kicks for the last 70 minutes. It was sad. I really wanted France to win this game and not go to penalty kicks because their goalie was not very good. I knew that France would lose if the game went to penalty kicks.
France was carrying the game in extra time until Zidane commited a disgraceful foul. I have no clue what set him off, but he head-butted a player behind the play and was shown the red card by the referee. One can only wonder what was said to him to cause him to lose his cool and cripple his team in the waning moments of the World Cup final, but it must have been something really bad. I'd love to hear what Zidane has to say about the play, but I can't find any post-game comments from him yet. I wouldn't put it by an Italian player since they seemed to find every possible way to cheat in this World Cup, but there is no excuse for how Zidance responded to the comment. Seriously, what was he thinking?
Oh well. Maybe the Netherlands can win it all in 2010.
However, I really did not like either team. Italy is a pathetic bunch of divers that disgrace the game of soccer. France has their share of divers, but I had tremendous respect for Zidane and Ribery since they are both fantastic players and very excited to watch.
The game started well for me with an early France goal (on a BS PK call), but Italy fought back and tied the game a little later. In the second half, France dominated, but unfortunately they could not score. Italy appeared to be playing for penalty kicks for the last 70 minutes. It was sad. I really wanted France to win this game and not go to penalty kicks because their goalie was not very good. I knew that France would lose if the game went to penalty kicks.
France was carrying the game in extra time until Zidane commited a disgraceful foul. I have no clue what set him off, but he head-butted a player behind the play and was shown the red card by the referee. One can only wonder what was said to him to cause him to lose his cool and cripple his team in the waning moments of the World Cup final, but it must have been something really bad. I'd love to hear what Zidane has to say about the play, but I can't find any post-game comments from him yet. I wouldn't put it by an Italian player since they seemed to find every possible way to cheat in this World Cup, but there is no excuse for how Zidance responded to the comment. Seriously, what was he thinking?
Oh well. Maybe the Netherlands can win it all in 2010.
posted by GaryGinew at 9:06 PM
1 Comments:
I think we already heard that from the announcers.
ESPN also told us that it was Zidane's last game "for club or country" every minute on the minute during the telecast.
That, and apparently England has some player named David Beckham that can hit bending free kicks.
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