World Champions 2006
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Are you kidding?
You have to be kidding.
Are you bleeping kidding?
How in the name of all that is holy and insane did the Italians won the world cup? Against a 9 men crappy US team and still only managed to get a draw?. With Italians players falling apart in all its country's domestic scandals? With the gunslinging Brazilians laughing and hugging in a joyous mood in training prior for the world cup?
World Champions: Italy
That's not a joke or a misprint.
Believe it.
Believe.
Italy went from a nation disgraced by football fixing scandals to World Champions. If you went to bed early or gave up on the Italians, all you missed was the single most important rally in the country's last 24-year history (the last time the Italians won the world cup).
What??...needed a last minute penalty kick to beat first timers Australia.
Alessandro Nesta, Italy's best defender, injured.
Daniele De Rossi, one of Italy's key players suspended for 4 matches.
Francesco Totti, the hope of Italy in offense, didnt played up to expectations.
Surely, they cant be world champions.
Are you kidding?
You have to be kidding.
Are you bleeping kidding?
This result, given the circumstances, wouldn't have been any stranger if tournament had included a Bigfoot sighting, a space-ship landing on the field and a referee being eaten by an anaconda.
Fabio Grosso, a player playing in Italy's fourth division in 2000-01, scored the game's most important goal in injury time against the Germans and scoring the last penalty kick to seal the victory.
Furthermore, Gianluca Zambrotta, a player who had only scored one goal his entire career, got the opening goal against Ukraine.
A team renown for its tendency to defend throughout the match bringing in strikers late in their game to go for the win.
The final. What a majestic, mesmerizing game. Breathtaking, literally. The players, the fans -- it took your breath away. France couldn't penetrate a stingy Italian defence led by the, player of the tournament in my opinion, Cannavaro. Only way that they could score is by a 50-50 penalty decision.
Matterazzi, paparazzi??...."who the heck was this guy?" I thought, when he came in to replace Nesta. Gattusso, having just fought off an injury, limped throughout the match against the United States. Alessandro Del Piero, too old and way past his prime were what the critics said. And Italians penalty takers, as often happens, teetered between horrible and disgusting.
That was the Italian's heros.
Italy does not deserve to win?
Are you kidding?
You have to be kidding.
Are you bleeping kidding?
Alex
10:32 AM
