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July 13th, 2006

World Cup Winners [1930-2006]

Uruguay 1930

Uruguay

Italy 1934

Italy

France 1938

Italy

Brazil 1950

Uruguay

Switzerland 1954

Germany

Sweden 1958

Brazil

Chile 1962

Brazil

England 1966
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July 10th, 2006

It’s all over! Italy won!

And I missed it! Waaaaah.
What a bummer. Apart from the fact that I’m sad that France lost, missing it is the pits. Grrr. I blame San Mig Light and that friggin’ law student that kept us longer at that party that we ought to. Heh. ;)
Looking at the highlights:

7′ Zinedine Zidane [FRA] scores an early […]

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July 9th, 2006

The Battle for Third Place

Germany takes home the prize.
After 90+2′ of play, the final score was 3:1, in favour of the Germans.
Bastian Schweinsteiger 7 [GER] scored two fantastic goals though the second one seemed to have come with a Yellow card. Hahaha.
So, who scored the other goal? It’s Portugal’s own Petit [POR] 8. Story was Schweinsteiger was […]

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July 6th, 2006

It’s an Italy vs France World Cup Final!

France beat Portugal!
Tho photo speaks a thousand words, don’t you think? ;)
On the 33′ penalty, Ricardo [POR] fails as Zinedine Zidane [FRA] lands the ball in the net.
After 90+2′ of play, final score was 0:1, in favour of France.
Zidane will finish off his career in the best way possible for he has the chance to […]

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July 5th, 2006

Italy goes to the World Cup Final!

OMG! What a way to finish! They’ve defeated the Germans and now they’re headed to the World Cup final!
Goals came in late but the Italians will take it! The Germans must’ve been surprised as hell! Hahaha.

GOAL #1
At the 119′, Andrea Pirlo [ITA] passes it to Fabio Grosso [ITA] who did a bending shot that made […]

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July 3rd, 2006

World Cup 2006 Semi-final Schedule

MATCH
|
COMPETITORS
|
DATE
|
TIME

61

GER vs ITA

04/07/2006

21:00

62

POR vs FRA

05/07/2006

21:00

Who do you think will move on to the finals?
My […]

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July 2nd, 2006

France cracks Brazil!

I’m absolutely floored! The world’s #1 got beat by a team ranked 8th!
When I thought Brazil’s spot on the semi-final was a sure thing, France proved me wrong!
It was at 57′ when Thierry Henry 12 [FRA] scores for France with the help of Zinadine Zidane 10 [FRA]!
Play lasted for 93′ with the final score of […]

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July 2nd, 2006

PSO: England bows out

After 120′ of play and a Rooney red card, England walks off the pitch disheartened. Portugal took away their ticket to the semis, where they would’ve faced Brazil again like the last time. That is, if Brazil wins in the game to follow.

Simao Sabrosa [POR] takes the first penalty.
Frank Lampard [ENG] shot was saved […]

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July 1st, 2006

Germany Faces Italy in the Semi-final

I wanted Ukraine to win just to spite someone but I knew it will be Italy all along. I knew it was going to be a difficult match for Ukraine but that early goal from Italy made it clearly impossible.

6′ Gianluca Zambrotta 19 [ITA]
59′ Luca Toni 9 [ITA]
69′ Luca Toni 9 [ITA]

Final score at full […]

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July 1st, 2006

It all boiled down to penalty kicks…

After 120′ of play, the fate of Argentina and Germany rested on penalty kicks. It has been said that Germany can win the match if it comes down to it.

Oliver Neuville [GER] puts the ball in the lower-right corner.
Julio Cruz [ARG] shoots a top-left precision goal.
Michael Ballack [GER] shoots an almost perfect copy of […]

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