Why I liked 2006?
1. Big teams turned up for this one, we seen the return of France, Germany, Italy and Portugal going far in competitions.
2. Plenty of star studded teams, with no clear winner. Heck even England had a good team, and were considered outside favorites.
3. Plenty of Drama, England and Porutgal penalty shootout (Rooney sending off, and Ronaldo's cheeky wink), Argetina vs Germany penalties, Italy vs Germany semi final.
4. Last World Cup for some of the players we all grew up with; Del Piero, Inzaghi, Totti, Zidane Vieira, Thuram, Beckham, Nedved, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Carlos, etc
5. Final was actually close with no one knowing which way it was going to go. Let's face it, we all knew that Brazil would beat Germany in 2002 and Spain would beat Netherlands, but 2006 geuinely had two in form teams who could not be seperated. Add the sending off for Zidane and the penaltyshoot out at the end.
there you go 5 reasons for liking World Cup 2006, without including Italy winning it