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Submitted by Abalieno on July 10, 2006 - 01:30.

Italy won the world cup!

People are going crazy since soccer is the most followed and practiced sport over here. Deeply rooted in the culture. The match was surreal, with Zidane losing his mind and everything. During the second half France was definitely prevailing, they kept the ball most of the time and continued to attack restlessly. But the reality is that Italy had the very best defence in the world. That's undeniable. In the whole tourney they didn't suffer any goal coming from a normal action, just the own goal in the harsh match with the USA and penalty kicks, nothing else. So they won by defending and with some luck occasions here and there.

I'm not really a sport enthusiast but I watched all the matches. For some reason I "felt" a lot more the semifinal with Germany, that was also a better match to see. This one I was more detached. But still glad.

Btw, how comes that the great majority of France's players are black people?

(I guess it's time to go back writing about games?)

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Re: Woot

nnastasi on July 10, 2006 - 03:18.

Btw, how comes that the great majority of France's players are black people?

Lol, I was thinking the same exact thing when the announcer was going through the players' names, "So and so is from the Congo." They played a great game until Zidane had to headbutt Materazzi.

It was great to see Italy win though.

Viva Italia!

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Hirebrand (not verified) on July 10, 2006 - 09:20.

Soccer is a game too. :)

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Lorekeep on July 11, 2006 - 00:18.

Only we Americans are arrogant enough to call something that is used by the rest of the world something different. Metric System vs. Miles, anyone?

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Dom (not verified) on July 10, 2006 - 21:56.

Btw, how comes that the great majority of France's players are black people?

Colonialism. Since France had so many African colonies there are a lot of people with mixed heritage. The rules of international football are that if you have dual-nationality, you can pick which country to play for but once you've played for one in an international match, you're 'bound' to them. A lot of players of African descent were eligible for French passports and so they switched sides. Then, in the last few years, the opposite has happened whereby a lot of French-born players are allowed to apply for African citizenship based on their heritage, and have been returning to their 'motherland'.

It's not especially rare, really, it's just a bit more obvious or extreme with France. For example, several members of the German team are actually Polish, and even one of your own Italian players (Perrotta) was born in England.

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