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Portugal!!.. now with Deco back and rested.. they could go..all..the...way!    I am rooting for the only team left without a worldcup trophy and the smallest country left too. 

Damn it, Italy do not deserve to be in the final It should be Australia  (joke) they must of bribed another referee, Italy domestic game is full of corruption and crime.

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unfortunaltely the best game from Italy during World Cup, congratulations

It looked like it would end with penalty kicks for sure. That was a great bender to win it in the last minute. I'm still not converted to being a soccer fan. I hate the way one mistake, one lucky shot, or one bad call by the refs decides so many games. Or that you can run errands for an hour and a half and come back and not have missed anything. Or leave for one minute and miss everything (everything being the one and only goal that gets scored). The thing I love about World Cup are pictures like this one

"Somalia Defeats Rwanda To Win Third-World Cup"

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50032

I always liked Deco since he led Porto to the Champions League triumph 3 years ago.  And he was instrumental to Barcelona's success the last couple of years; of course together with Eto'o, Messi and Ronaldinho.  He outplayed Zidane during the Barcelona-Real Madrid matches so todays' game should be interesting because Zidane is in top form.

Just like many others here, I'm rooting for Portugal.

Quote from: Ouch!!! on July 05, 2006, 03:03:38 PM
I always liked Deco since he led Porto to the Champions League triumph 3 years ago.  And he was instrumental to Barcelona's success the last couple of years; of course together with Eto'o, Messi and Ronaldinho.  He outplayed Zidane during the Barcelona-Real Madrid matches so todays' game should be interesting because Zidane is in top form.

Just like many others here, I'm rooting for Portugal.

Thanks Ouch

Porto , I have born there so its my home team
My favourite players are Maniche and Deco, not because they used to play on Porto, but because of their great skils.... the match just started, and so far I'm optimistic... we have a good team, Ricardo has been working great, Ronaldo looks to be in 100% shape, and Figo has some insights about Zidane style   So the technical outlook of Portugal is bullish, just ready for a major buy signal   (btw, the betting odds are giving 3.75 to Portugal against 2.30 to France... I expect the betting agents to lose a lot of money today )

Over and out...  

Gee Rams!  You're a lucky guy with such a home team.

Deco just came out from injury so he's just doing this one touch football.  Anyway he's good at it.

45 minutes to go.

Shocker. Another 1-0 game decided by a lame penalty call.

Congrats to France.

well, also on the edge, congrats to France; sorry for Portugal

Interesting video on diving in the World Cup. Ridiculous behavior. FIFA should start reviewing video and banning players who pull that kind of crap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QSHB-AQZ1E&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

And here's the video of the dive that allowed France to steal its way into the World Cup final!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI3uOFu8-WM&search=soccer%20diving

Famous soccer quotes:

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=footballNews&storyID=2006-07-07T103537Z_01_L07001334_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-SOCCER-QUOTES.XML&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2

I don't think Klinsmann (Germany's coach) would mind about Ronaldo's tactics.  He was once on the same shoe.  In fact he dove in front of Tottenham fans everytime he scored a goal to show his exceptional diving techniques.

It's part of the game.  The referee should give them yellow cards.