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Post by Antonio on Jul 9, 2006 16:36:31 GMT -5
Hurrah! Italy won! As you can imagine, it's a blast here ;D. Sorry for who supported France  |
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Post by arjan on Jul 9, 2006 16:42:55 GMT -5
The pizza shop around the corner just had some fire works... the entire neighborhood was in shock I think  |
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Post by jhar26 on Jul 9, 2006 17:09:17 GMT -5
Hurrah! Italy won! As you can imagine, it's a blast here ;D. Sorry for who supported France Well, congrats Antonio! I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of Italien soccer, but they usually get the job done and that's all that matters.  Gaston |
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Post by egoodstein on Jul 9, 2006 18:58:05 GMT -5
Well, as only a marginal fan, I was kinda glad Italy won-- slightly weird circumstances with the head butt and all   . Italian guy musta called him baldy or something . . . Still, the Italians have come close often fairly recently, so maybe had some karma correction coming their way or something. France played well when I saw the game (2nd half/overtime mainly) & maybe quieted some doubters-- for a millisecond anyway . Viva Italia!! Ed |
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Post by Kathy ~ on Jul 9, 2006 23:30:17 GMT -5
THIS WAS BIG.. ON MY 10:00 NEWS !! DANCIN IN THE STREETS..
CONGRATS TO THE ITALIAN SOCCER TEAM !!AND OF COURSE, TO THE FANS HERE
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Post by jhar26 on Jul 10, 2006 11:26:04 GMT -5
Still, the Italians have come close often fairly recently, so maybe had some karma correction coming their way or something. Ed I think that leaving aside Brasil, Italy and Germany are the most successful teams in world-cup history. Gaston |
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Post by arjan on Jul 10, 2006 16:51:17 GMT -5
I heard the commentor say Italy was World Champion for the 4th time... the previous were something like 1934, 1938 and 1982. So it's been a while. Not sure about European Chapionships and runners up.
Germany's last victory was 1990, as the movie "Goodbye Lenin" so brilliantly uses. Or actually, it's a movie about tearing down 'the wall' (the Berlin one, not the existing Israel wall) and it really fits, as a viewer you really are happy Germany won the title so soon after getting together.
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Post by jhar26 on Jul 10, 2006 19:01:00 GMT -5
Well, Italy gets to the final every twelve years, at least in recent history....
1970: Lost to Brasil.
1982: Won against West Germany
1994: Lost to Brasil
2006: Won against France
Gaston
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Post by Antonio on Jul 11, 2006 8:21:41 GMT -5
To tell the truth, I think that Italy this time has won with a team that was "only a lucky so so" (in Louis Armstrong's words ;D), compared to our teams in 1970 and 1994, that didn't win.
On the other hand the 1982 team was really great.
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Post by jhar26 on Jul 11, 2006 13:30:02 GMT -5
To tell the truth, I think that Italy this time has won with a team that was "only a lucky so so" (in Louis Armstrong's words ;D), compared to our teams in 1970 and 1994, that didn't win. On the other hand the 1982 team was really great. Well, Italy deserved it as much as anyone really. I don't think there was a team at this world Cup who were head and shoulders above everyone else. Before the tounament started we were made to believe that all that Brasil needed to do to win it was show up, but they were disappointing. And after their match against Serbia, Argentina definitely looked the business. But it was only for one match. Gaston |
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. Italian guy musta called him baldy or something 