[WC] Italy vs France [09.07.2006] (35 Viewers)
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barthez to score the winning goal, something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7xTUpIqpg&search=goalkeeper own goal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7xTUpIqpg&search=goalkeeper own goal
ZAF3000 said:
Lippi...... He will do it inshalah 
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My only worries is that the players will be more tired than the french due to the extra time and the high-tempo gain against Germany..
Forza Italia.. Forza Italia... Forza Italia..
...My only worries is that the players will be more tired than the french due to the extra time and the high-tempo gain against Germany..
Forza Italia.. Forza Italia... Forza Italia..
wow check all these bad own goals....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZNvvAKAV4&mode=related&search=goalkeeper own goal
some of them are actually great goals lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZNvvAKAV4&mode=related&search=goalkeeper own goal
some of them are actually great goals lol
Big trouble in little Berlin
After inspiring France to the Final, Zinedine Zidane aims for an ending worthy of a kung fu film by beating master Marcello Lippi. James Sugrue prepares for battle.
Every tale deserves an ending as epic as the one that Zinedine Zidane’s career is about to entertain. Just like the best kung fu movies, Zizou fights one last battle, but this time he must face his former sensei – cue dramatic music.
Just like any good martial arts star, the Frenchman had humble beginnings. Born in the Marseille suburbs by Algerian parents, he started his footballing legacy in 1988 when he appeared for AS Cannes and was promptly moved up the Ligue 1 food chain when he joined Bordeaux. This is where he was soon spotted by the cigar smoking Marcello Lippi, who was still in the early days of his own legacy.
The two were to become one in Turin as Zidane became the symbol of Lippi’s all-conquering Juventus side. During his time at La Vecchia Signora the modern icon – instantly recognisable due to his unique triangular receding hairline – he won two Scudetti, the Italian Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. He also reached the peak of his performance, winning both the World Cup and European Championship with France and was awarded the Ballon D’Or as well as two FIFA World Player of the Year titles.
It was during his time under Lippi that he blossomed into the player who will now be remembered as one of the game’s all-time greats. Few players in the history of football have possessed both the immense physique and pace of Zidane as well as his almost unrivalled passing and technical abilities. This is reflected by his transfer market value’s leap in Turin. Juve signed the midfielder for just £3m at the age of 24. However in 2001 – with Zizou now rapidly approaching 30 years of age – they received a whopping £48m for his services from the 'Galactico’ happy Spaniards, Real Madrid.
With his time in La Liga also now at an end, there remains only one final match for him to play and he could hardly have chosen a bigger stage to bow out of his career. Having announced his retirement from football as of the end of the World Cup, he has inspired France all the way to the Final. It would be hard to think of a more fitting opponent than the mentor who helped to make the bald one the truly global entity that is Zinedine Zidane, and Lippi stuck to his role as B Movie sensei as he gave a bizarrely philosophical press conference on the upcoming showdown.
“It will be a difficult game, yet certainly a balanced one seeing as both sides equal each other on the pitch,” said the silver-haired tactician. “As they have gone on, France have found their condition and have rediscovered their best Zidane.” As if describing the yin and yang, Lippi seems to revel in his role as past master set to show his former pupil that he is still the older and wiser of the two.
In the films with which this saga has so much in common it is invariably the sensei that wins the first face-off with his pupil before a more humble youngster returns later to triumph. With this likely to be the last chance for the two to cross swords – despite calls for Zizou to delay his retirement – the clichés would seem to lean towards a Zidane-inspired French victory.
But this is not a kung fu film and hopefully the only thing that will be on the end of a flying kick is the football – although anything is still possible with Marco Materazzi on the pitch.
Lippi will not cave in to sentiment for his old friend with a World Cup trophy and the expectations of a nation on his shoulders. And in Gennaro Gattuso he has probably the tournament’s best holding midfielder at his disposal to help deal with his former protégée.
One thing is for certain though, whoever emerges as the World Champion in Berlin will receive heartfelt respect and congratulations from their defeated foe and it is sure to be one hell of a battle in the process.
After inspiring France to the Final, Zinedine Zidane aims for an ending worthy of a kung fu film by beating master Marcello Lippi. James Sugrue prepares for battle.
Every tale deserves an ending as epic as the one that Zinedine Zidane’s career is about to entertain. Just like the best kung fu movies, Zizou fights one last battle, but this time he must face his former sensei – cue dramatic music.
Just like any good martial arts star, the Frenchman had humble beginnings. Born in the Marseille suburbs by Algerian parents, he started his footballing legacy in 1988 when he appeared for AS Cannes and was promptly moved up the Ligue 1 food chain when he joined Bordeaux. This is where he was soon spotted by the cigar smoking Marcello Lippi, who was still in the early days of his own legacy.
The two were to become one in Turin as Zidane became the symbol of Lippi’s all-conquering Juventus side. During his time at La Vecchia Signora the modern icon – instantly recognisable due to his unique triangular receding hairline – he won two Scudetti, the Italian Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. He also reached the peak of his performance, winning both the World Cup and European Championship with France and was awarded the Ballon D’Or as well as two FIFA World Player of the Year titles.
It was during his time under Lippi that he blossomed into the player who will now be remembered as one of the game’s all-time greats. Few players in the history of football have possessed both the immense physique and pace of Zidane as well as his almost unrivalled passing and technical abilities. This is reflected by his transfer market value’s leap in Turin. Juve signed the midfielder for just £3m at the age of 24. However in 2001 – with Zizou now rapidly approaching 30 years of age – they received a whopping £48m for his services from the 'Galactico’ happy Spaniards, Real Madrid.
With his time in La Liga also now at an end, there remains only one final match for him to play and he could hardly have chosen a bigger stage to bow out of his career. Having announced his retirement from football as of the end of the World Cup, he has inspired France all the way to the Final. It would be hard to think of a more fitting opponent than the mentor who helped to make the bald one the truly global entity that is Zinedine Zidane, and Lippi stuck to his role as B Movie sensei as he gave a bizarrely philosophical press conference on the upcoming showdown.
“It will be a difficult game, yet certainly a balanced one seeing as both sides equal each other on the pitch,” said the silver-haired tactician. “As they have gone on, France have found their condition and have rediscovered their best Zidane.” As if describing the yin and yang, Lippi seems to revel in his role as past master set to show his former pupil that he is still the older and wiser of the two.
In the films with which this saga has so much in common it is invariably the sensei that wins the first face-off with his pupil before a more humble youngster returns later to triumph. With this likely to be the last chance for the two to cross swords – despite calls for Zizou to delay his retirement – the clichés would seem to lean towards a Zidane-inspired French victory.
But this is not a kung fu film and hopefully the only thing that will be on the end of a flying kick is the football – although anything is still possible with Marco Materazzi on the pitch.
Lippi will not cave in to sentiment for his old friend with a World Cup trophy and the expectations of a nation on his shoulders. And in Gennaro Gattuso he has probably the tournament’s best holding midfielder at his disposal to help deal with his former protégée. One thing is for certain though, whoever emerges as the World Champion in Berlin will receive heartfelt respect and congratulations from their defeated foe and it is sure to be one hell of a battle in the process.
I can't sleep .. i think in the match all the time .. 
btw who see zidane smoke ?
http://oxygene.passion.bleublog.ch/files/images/2006/7/mob394_1152102894.jpg
btw who see zidane smoke ?
http://oxygene.passion.bleublog.ch/files/images/2006/7/mob394_1152102894.jpg
