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The Official World Cup 2006 Thread

whocares said:
The golden ball may be based on votes cast before the final. In any case, I hope it was.
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The votes were cast at half-time.

Seems silly to me, since somebody could still perform a piece of magic/stupidity that could sway a close vote.

Anyway, well done to Italy & commiserations to France.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I'd agree with that. Those cheeky Portuguese kept me entertained for the whole World Cup with their prat falls, absurd overacting and other comedy antics.
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Definitely colorful. 24 yellow cards and two red cards have to count for something! That's over three per match played!

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Watching the scenes of the Italians waiting for their team in the Circus Maximus, you'd have to have a very hard heart not to admire the fans' appreciation for their team.

The BBC are reporting between 750,000 and a million people crammed in there plus the thousands packing the streets/following the bus which made it 2 hours late. But it's a reasonably alcohol-free atmosphere with no trouble, lots of families, lots of singing and flag-waving... and the team haven't arrived yet. The place will erupt when they go on stage.

Now that's a great advert for the game and the passion it evokes...
 
Well, I successfully used "Zidane" as a verb earlier today.

I played a match last night and unintentionally took out the other team's keeper. (He was being a dick by not picking up the ball and taunting us forwards, so I charged the ball and he got in the way... :eek: ;))

Our team was joking about afterwards, calling me a bully, scrapper, and all that, so I said, "Just let me know who you want me to take out of the next game and I'll try to Zidane him." :D
 
~Shard~ said:
Our team was joking about afterwards, calling me a bully, scrapper, and all that, so I said, "Just let me know who you want me to take out of the next game and I'll try to Zidane him." :D
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Very nice... :D
 
Applespider said:
Watching the scenes of the Italians waiting for their team in the Circus Maximus, you'd have to have a very hard heart not to admire the fans' appreciation for their team.

The BBC are reporting between 750,000 and a million people crammed in there plus the thousands packing the streets/following the bus which made it 2 hours late. But it's a reasonably alcohol-free atmosphere with no trouble, lots of families, lots of singing and flag-waving... and the team haven't arrived yet. The place will erupt when they go on stage.

Now that's a great advert for the game and the passion it evokes...
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Been watching some Italian footage on the interweb. :eek:

I think it's fair to say that at least the tifosi deserve the World Cup. Wow. It's just insane. :cool:
Wish I were there now. :(

Applespider said:
Incidentally, congratulations to the following

2nyRiggz, adroit, Applespider :eek: , Don't panic, FF_productions, iRachel, Jay42, jsw123, knackroller, MacFan782040, mouchoir, Patmian212, Phat Elvis, thequicksilver, zelmo

who correctly predicted the result back in early June and kept the faith! :D
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I voted for Germany. I feel dirty now. no offense to the Germans, fantastic supporters too!
 
I enjoyed this Cup particularly because I was able to watch so many matches the first two weeks because of schedule. I got bit watching the '84 World Cup in Mexico while living in Colombia. It's truly a great game.

So. Anyone making plans for South Africa in 2010 besides ~Shard~? I'd like to fly the family there for it, but need to check out the FF Programs.

calyxman said:
Latest on the Zidane incident is that Materazzi threw a racial slur at Zizou.
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I read that he called him a "dirty terrorist". But Materazzi categorically denies having said that. "I don't even know what it means", he said when questioned about it. Link
 
macdaddy121 said:
I don't know why the announcers would lie about it being on the screen. If he never saw it on the screen why would he start talking about how they shouldn't have put it on the screen. Why would you not believe that?
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I'm just saying nobody else has mentioned it but him (and again if it is mentioned somewhere else, by all means enlightened me). Why is that? Either he's trying to create more drama by B.S.ing, he was just mistaken, or it was shown and nobody else is talking about it.
 
Counterfit said:
I wanted the US to win. Wishful thinking, I know, but we had our best ever showing in Europe! WE ACTUALLY SCORED! :eek:
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Though I'm a U.S. citizen, I'm not necessarily defensive about the States' performance in the Cup. The U.S. side this time was not nearly as good as some of the "puffers" and "poll-sters" were saying, but they also were not as bad as the "bashers" were saying. Soccer is the fastest growing sport both in fans and participants in the U.S. with some 16 million playing the game in one way or another, but the interest field is largely youth and female dominated which is fine, but the big-bang-for-the-buck corporate types are still too smugly bottom line and distracted by other venues, imo.
 
xsedrinam said:
So. Anyone making plans for South Africa in 2010 besides ~Shard~? I'd like to fly the family there for it, but need to check out the FF Programs.
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Let me know if and when you do make a decision. Although it's a ways away yet, I'm going to try my best to make it happen! :cool:
 
I heard that Germany, China, and Japan placed 1-2-3 in the World Cup.

Of course, I'm talking about the Robot Soccer World Cup.
RoboCup 2006 is the first step towards a vision," said Minoru Asada, president of the RoboCup Federation. This vision includes the development of a humanoid robot team of eleven players, which can win against a human soccer world champion team.
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I don't think the robots are ready to take on the humans just yet, but they get better every year. Robots can beat humans at chess, so it may just be a matter of time.
 
calyxman said:
Latest on the Zidane incident is that Materazzi threw a racial slur at Zizou.
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nah, that happens all the time (it shouldn't, but it does) so i doubt it's that.
whatever it was, it must have really hit a nerve to provoke such a reaction. i watched the replay and it's bizarre. they where chitty-chatting for a bit (probably insulting each other's ancestors) and then bam!
whatever was said (by both) is, however, irrelevant. I can't think of anything that they must have not heard a million times and if it was that bad, he should have just shamed him publicly afterward (and won the cup on the way there).
most definitively the most bone-headed (;)) action i ever saw on a soccer field.
an interesting article from slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2145406/
and a little jewel from travelling 'the internets': http://tonaz.altervista.org/zidane.html
 
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