Newsgroup: it.sport.calcio
Titolo: Re: CHEATS WIN WORLD CUP


They get the cup, no doubt. But some might say they get the champion
they deserve. (I don't know if this is true. I think there are many
honest, honorable football fans in Italy, too.) Nevertheless, I wonder
how many of them won't object to the cheating aspect...
Regarding Zidane:
I feel, indeed, really sorry for the French football fans, but in a way
I have sympathy for Zidane. Of course, his action was completely
inacceptable from sport's point of view and completely
counter-productive regarding his team's effort to win a world cup.
On the ohter hand, it was his last match (so any punishments won't take
effect) and considering what the Italian player did to him (psysically
and verbally -- there must have been a severe insult on behalf of the
Iatlian to ignite such an unreasonable attack), Zidane might have
argued: "This is my last match - and I'm not leaving here without
'eachin' a 'lesson' to that pizza man who twitched me and insulted me."
Maybe he feels to have done the "right" thing, regardless of any
punishments.
Frings said, regarding his punishment: "I would do it again". (And he's
right if one thinks of how Argentine's players responded to their
defeat.)
Sad for All-France.
Now, the cheaters are champion. So what? Times change.
There's more than one champion:
The championship itself was declared "Champion of the Championships" by
FIFA.
The German team was declared "Champion of the Hearts" by their fans :)
The German fans were declared, today, "Champions of the Fans" by the
German team.
And, as I'd like to add, the serious fooball scene itself might be
declared "Champion of Tolerance", regarding the "cheated" Cup :(

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No, nell'Italia non c'era cheating at all
C'è in Italia...o c'era, ma non nell'Italia


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> WHERE BRIBING & CORRUPTION HAS AFFECTED THE CLUB LEVEL.
That's just how I and almost all of my Dutch friends here think about the 
Italian team: an unfair and unworthy champion. 

 Italian team: an unfair and unworthy champion.
You and your Dutch friends can suck and suck again for the next 4 years, 
LOOOSEEEEERRRRRRS! 

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Is it a general Italian attitude not to consider the way you win?
Anyhow, Italy, Portugal and my own country, the Netherlands, are the teams 
wich left the tournement with heavy image-damage.
Germany and France, on the other hand, are the moral winners.

 Germany [...] are the moral winners.
Thank you. We awarded the team "Champion of the Hearts"
 (And we don't care - whether or not some of those ignorant
Italo-trolls might regard this hilarious - they don't speak for the
majority of fans there, I hope.)
In a way I feel sorry for the team (at least for the older ones),
because they were so close. There's nothing wrong about the semi-final
match - last minute is last minute and is correct.
(The Argentine-thing was a different thing which the Italian team can't
be blamed for - at least, there isn't any indication for it, yet ;)
Just KIDDING: What did the referee and one of the Italians have to talk
about for so long a time - where there differences regarding the
currency? ;) As I said, just kidding - if prejudes are just that, then
jokes should agree even with Italians :)
I think especially the not-so-young German team members are very
respectable personalities. If you look at Jens Lehmann, for instance:
He is good at his job AND has a great human touch to him, I think. On
the one hand, one can see a little bit of disappointment (regarding his
being 36 years old and not having won the cup this time), on the other,
he is in no way egotistical and goes so-to-speak out of his way in
order to "pet" his younger future-proof team members and, above all, to
cheer the millions of fans. They are really "Champion of (our)
heart"!!!
I am totally sure, from sport's point of view, it would have been an
far more interesting match between France and Germany, regardless of
who would have won, in the same way as the "little" final for the third
place was in any way a pleasant match (as the international press
states), as opposed to the actual final. Even the Portuguese coach
admitted to the press he was one of Klinsmann's fans...
Greating to Oranje,
N.