THE KING IS DEAD!!

i'm not even watching but i'd definitely be rooting for italy over germany if i were!!

Damn, this cup has seen some serious upsets! I cannot believe it.

I want Portugal because with Brasil out at least I can at least root for the rest of my heritage with both portugal and italy. Portugal all the way though..I don't want Italy catching up to Brasil but man the Italians play a pretty game!

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 07-04-2006 5:32 PM]

Posted by Marv:

all right i read an article lamenting brasil's abandoning the beautiful game. why did they do that? their coach named laurenco brownihno???

haha yeah I think the coaching was the problem. Silver actually warmed be about Pereira. Poor strategy. He is the 1st brazilian coach ever to not unleash the offense and instead play a more european style game of milking the clock defensively. It worked in 2002 because Ronaldo was 25 and in his prime and they really didn't score much in 2002 either. Apparently Pereira spent too much time coaching the metrostars in the MLS

Regardless some fans are pissed at Ronaldinho. Can't really blame them since the media hypes him up so much. But there really was nothing he could do being tripled and double teamed the entire time....

Ronaldinho statue burned

ANGRY Brazilian fans have destroyed a seven-metre statue of World Player of the Year Ronaldinho following the national team's quarter-final exit at the hands of France.

The resin and iron statue in the southern town of Chapeco in Santa Catarina state was burned after the Selecoes' 1-0 defeat to Les Bleus, according to the local mayor.

"All that's left is a burnt-out metal skeleton of a statue," his spokesman said.

The monument, depicting Ronaldinho with a ball, was inaugurated to celebrate the player's first World Footballer of the Year award in 2004.

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 07-04-2006 5:38 PM]

Posted by VDesai:

Posted by gunsnewing:

I want Portugal because with Brasil out at least I can at least root for the rest of my heritage with both portugal and italy. Portugal all the way though..I don't want Italy catching up to Brasil but man the Italians play a pretty game!

[Edited by - gunsnewing on 07-04-2006 5:32 PM]

I gotta root for France. Zidane is my all time favorite soccer player and I'd love to see him go out and top. France also has the only player of Indian descent to ever play in the World Cup (Vikash Dhorasoo).

really no way thats awesome. plenty reason to root for France then!

What a great game. Buffon may have only given up 1 goal the entire tournament (and it was an own goal in the US game) but the back 4 for Italy were amazing today. Everytime Germany tried to cross it in it was headed far away or when they were trying to make a move Canavaro or someone else was making a great tackle in the box.

Germany played well too, especially on defense where they were shutting down the Italians attempt to make long balls for the entire match. It was when Germany seemed content with going to PK's that Italy took advantage. I also thought Italy scored on that earlier play where the ball was shot from about 10 feet out past Lehmann but off the post! (that was crazy!).
Poor Germans, but no one will be complaining about Italy's win today.

Plus the ref was FANTASTIC. The best reffing of the entire tournament today.

That was a lot of fun to watch...GO ITALY! (from my 1/4 Italian side of my family)

I HATE France!!!!

C. Ronaldo is the biggest baby in the world. His dives are getting ridiculous. They need to do something about it.

France knocks off Portugal! Unreal effort by Henry and Zidane.

VIVE LA FRANCE! ALLEZ LES BLUES!

Zidane is gonna go out on top!