ITALY WIN! ITALY WIN!

So OK, it was a really quiet game after the 19th minute, but what's with that headbutt?!

Note to self: Is it grammatically correct to say "Italy win!", or should it be "Italy wins!"

Comments

[Nikhil]

I thought you hated soccer! How come you watched it? And if you did, I hope you watched, Italy-Germany and Germany-Portugal. Those were better.

Anyway, the game was scoreless after the 19th minute but not quiet. France was attacking quite a lot and Italy had two missed chances. ZZ had a dangerous header too. Headbutt was unfortunate. Pity that he had to say goodbye like that. I don't think ZZ will ever eat a pizza now.

PS: It is "Italy win". I know this because of my research of the "India lose" headlines of the late 80s. To avoid confusion, I suggest "Italy won, Italy WON"

[Kartik Anand]

um, scoreless after 19 min?

hello?!?!?!?

zizu scored in the 5th and the tall defender for the damn italians equalized in the 19th min.

unfortunate it had to go to penalties. but till zizu's red card, france were playing a good agressive game and had the upper hand.

zizu's dismissal makes no sense. c'est la vie. he is still the greatest controller of the ball.

and it is football, you ameriKan.

[Nikhil]

Thank you for the goal descriptions. I had forgotten about them ;) Scoreless need not mean quiet. You cannot determine how a game was from the scoreline.

Quiet means totally defensive playing for me. I did not think this one was. At least from the French side.

And all that people who love to think that "soccer" is an ameriKan word, it originated in England. Technically it is a British word and I get bored when people equate Soccer=AmericanDislike. Read up on the origin of the term sometime, pretty interesting.

[kartik anand]

the reason why soccer equates to american dislike is because In America, football refers to a game that does not have a 'ball' (with its fully standard geometric discription), nor the exclusive use of the foot to control the ball.

call it American Rugby. That would be an apt description.

[Nikhil]

"call it American Rugby"

You are aware that it is called "Rugby Football" right? That is the official name. What is up with that then? How come that is so given the geometric description of the object used?

They are just different spinoffs of the original term "football". Rugby football started before American football. The most popular flavor of Football is referred to as "football" in any country and the others are called by their nicknames.

"Rugby Football" becomes "Rugby".
"Association Football" becomes "soccer".

Does not mean that the name signifies dislike. It is just fashionable to associate it with that.

[kartik anand]

dislike is a fashion as well.