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Soccer : The World Cup Perspective
Italy: 2006 World Cup Champions
By ALEX "XUPOL" VARELA, MOP Squad Sports Staff Writer
Jul 9, 2006 - 6:35:00 PM

Hi everyone!, o sole mio!!. Italy is the new World Cup champion!!, we had a very tied game, the goals came in the first minutes of the match, and then both teams played a hard match, then, we had extra time, where the star, the master, Zinedine Zidane lost the head and retired with a red card, what a shame, check what happened here, also, check later for the best of the cup:

 

ITALY VS FRANCE

 

A tied game, just one winner

VENUE: Olympiastadion

 

RESULT: ITALY 1 – 1 FRANCE (PENALTIES: ITALY 5 – 3 FRANCE)

 

GOALS: Marco Materazzi (ITA); Zinedine Zidane (FRA)

PENALTIES: Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi, Daniele de Rossi, Alessandro Del Piero, Fabio Grosso (ITA), Sylvain Wiltord, Eric Abidal, Willy Sagnol (FRA)

 

LINE-UP:

 

ITALY: Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Grosso, Francesco Totti (Daniele De Rossi 61’), Fabio Cannavaro, Mauro Camoranesi (Alessandro Del Piero 86’), Gennaro Gattuso, Luca Toni, Simone Perrotta (Vincenzo Iaquinta 61’), Gianluca Zambrotta, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi

 

FRANCE: Fabien Barthez, Eric Abidal, William Gallas, Claude Makelele, Florent Malouda, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry (Sylvain Wiltord 107’), Lilian Thuram, Patrick Vieira (Alou Diarra 56’), Willy Sagnol, Frank Ribery (David Trezeguet 100’)

 

Barthez didn't had lucky at the end

Shots

[ITALY-2* FRANCE-8]

Shots on goal

[ITALY-3* FRANCE-5]

Offsides

[ITALY-4* FRANCE-2]

Fouls

[ITALY-17* FRANCE-24]

Yellow Cards: Gianluca Zambrotta (ITA); Willy Sagnol, Claude Makelele, Florent Malouda (FRA)

Red Cards: Zinedine Zidane (FRA)

Ball Possession

[ITALY-55%* FRANCE-45%]

 

Man of the Match: Andrea Pirlo

PLAYER OF THE MATCH: Andrea Pirlo (Italy)

 

ITALY CHAMPIONS

1st PLACE: ITALY

2nd PLACE: FRANCE

3rd PLACE: GERMANY

4th PLACE: PORTUGAL

 

Round of 16 -- Final

SCOREBOARD:

 

1.- Miroslav Klose (Germany) [goals:5]

2.- Thierry Henry (France) [goals:3]

3.- Lukas Podolski (Germany) [goals:3]

4.- Zinedine Zidane (France) [goals:2]

5.- Luca Toni (Italy) [goals:2]

 

Well people, congratulations to the new World Cup champion, wait for later for the last World Cup perspective, it will be about the statistics of the World Cup 2006, thank you all and see you soon!!!

 

ATTE: ALEX (Mr.X) VARELA (ÞH¥®€X¡@N=¤ÜÞØL__NØ ®€¢Ø®Ð   ®) HAVE A NICE DAY!!! :)

 

ALEX "XUPOL" VARELA

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