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World Deserves Zidane’s Headbutt

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Zinedine Zidane

Classic Zidane. Albeit he’s calm and shy persona lie a true warrior who descended from Algeria ruled by France for 132 years, born in French soil and grew in a tough environment outside Marseilles. Because of Zidane, Algeria learned to blind themselves from France’s doing, forgave and loved their country all because of the maestro.

The world cup is the greatest sporting event in the world, but a one man’s journey towards restoring love on a country whose rulers were hated for all memory is bigger than the extra time of a finals game.

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Golden Zidane!

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Zinedine ZidaneI am so happy for Zidane on winning the Golden Ball Award. France would never reach the finals without Zidane who powered his country right after the group stage. He seldom showed any semblance prior to the group of 16 which does not matter, because legends and the greatest players play and get paid for the biggest games of the tournament. Come to think of it, Zidane being the captain allowed his teammates to build confidence prior to the group stage without dominating and being the center of attention. He used his teammates’ growth and confidence to support him in beating their opponent’s en-route to the finals.

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Results (Finals): France vs Italy Wins

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Germany World Cup

As predicted France controlled the game primarily because of their midfield players who dominated Italy and set key plays resulting in 8 more shots and 2 more shots on goal. They threatened Italy most of the time and looked so close to scoring another goal after Zidane’s 7th minute penalty kick. The most beautiful shot could have been Zidane’s header in the 104th minute launched with precision, grace and the ball flying perfectly just under the top bar only to see Golden Ball rival Buffon deflect the shot.

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Vote for France – Italy Finals

18 years ago in Uncategorized

I am running a poll on the right side of the page. Go and vote for your team…

I going for France in the Finals. How about you?

[tags] FIFA World Cup, World Cup Germany, Italy, France, Finals[/tags]

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Preview (Finals): France vs Italy

18 years ago in Uncategorized

FIFA World Cup FranceOne word for France — Zizou. Italy’s answer — Cannavaro.

Zidane’s performance against Brazil and Portugal proved his age together with Patrick Vieira is an unstoppable combination that brings experience, composure and leadership to the team. Zidane’s brilliance in the midfield will be greatly depended upon, especially when Italy’s defender — Cannavaro is a wall to reckon with, to create scoring opportunities for them and hope one of the deadliest strikers in the world convert on it — Thierry Henry.

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Results (3rd): Germany 3 vs Portugal 1

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Germany World Cup

The crying girl must be all smiles as hundreds of thousands of Germans gathered to watch their 3rd place game against Portugal as if it was a finals game. Germany did not disappoint them anymore with an entertaining win in the score of 3 – 1 in favor of the host nation.

Hours before the celebration multitudes of people gathered in bars, restaurants, pubs, big screen designated places, etc. and even thousands gathered in front of the team’s hotel room to show them they were behind them all the way.

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Lu-lu-lu-kass Winsss

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Lukas PodolskiI went for Lukas Podolksi to win the Best Young Player award with the way he electrified the crowd at Germany. True enough, the Best Young Player award is not based on popularity for which he will be a runaway winner given the games are played in his hometown; rather players who have impacted the course and performance of their team throughout the tournament.

If you do not know how old Lukas is, you would have guessed wrong adding more years to his current age. His maturity is way beyond his age which can be seen on how he reacts on tackles, drawing fouls, positioning himself on the field; on the other hand you will have a feeling he is a kid with all his energy running back and forth without showing fatigue or slowness of age.

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French New Look

18 years ago in Uncategorized

French World Cup TeamDo you like the new look of the French team? futursimple‘s excitement left him creating his own version of Team Zizou. In an excerpt of his team Zizou post — yes, i know, it’s an ms paint hacky hack. i have zero photoshop skills, ok? and such urgent ideas don’t want to wait for me to get over the arguably steep PS learning curve…so while you wait for the professionally done version.

Football is an amazing sport, but what’s more amazing are the fans who pour in so much excitement, passion, love, etc. on it. How many sports would you see children crying over the loss of their team, or fans going out of their way to body paint themselves in the tune of their country’s flag, or chant and cheer relentlessly throughout the game?

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Vote for the Best Young Player

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Gillete Best Young Player

The race for the prestigous Gillete Best Young Player award is heating up with the list trimmed down to six players. The award aims to recognize the impact of young footballers in their first FIFA World Cup who rises above their young peers throughout the duration of the tournament.

Past winners include notables like Brazilian legend PELÉ, German icon Franz BECKENBAUER, greatest striker of Peru Teofilo CUBILLAS and England wunderkid Michael OWEN to name a few.

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Results (Semis): France 1 vs Portugal 0

18 years ago in Uncategorized

Zidane’s goal is all that matters, another chapter to a decade of greatness.

Few of the greatest athletes in any sport could write a fairy tale story book ending as Zidane is presented with. Few if perhaps none of them came out of retirement to participate in the greatest sporting event in the world and show mastery and dominance across different generations. As such is the greatness of the best midfielder in the last decade and arguably one of the greatest that played the game.

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