cheaters ! Buffon is in the corruption affair !

No value for this world cup ! it's like when italians win when it was in musolini.

Cheaters !

Why would he call him a monkey? You were beat fair and square.

i don't know what they said each other, but zidane made such a stupid thing in front of the world...
france go home.

Mate, i don't know if he has said monkey to zidane but players say things like this every minute of the games, the problem has been what zidane has done.

U can say what u want but u prove france to be bad losers.

U lost cuz of 3 things:

- Italy was almost beaten after 80mins. They didnt have enough condition due to the semifinal. Y not sub in a 2nd striker. (came 2 late)
- Why take Henry out?
- ZIDANE (stupid!)

domenech acted cowardly!

sorry

Cheating cheating cheating!!! Its all you have to say? BAD LOSER


AU REVOIR FRANCE

And Au revoir portugal....... not gold medal, not silver, even not bronze... hahaha

Congrats to Italians...

This looks like kindergarden to me!
Even if he called zidane monkey, zidane lost his nerves!
With a carrer such as his... what a waste!

Congrats Italy! From a portuguese

How do you know he called him a monkey?

Zidane played many years in Italy and he already had a reputation as big provocateur here .. I wouldn't blame Materazzi .. i'm sure both of them exchanged words .. The differece is Materazzi kept a cool head .. while Zidane .. well .. you know what happened.

By the way .. it's not the first time he does something like that.

Great champion .. but his character as a man is .. well ..

France lost because the scored least penalties in the shootout....

common now people, lets not get childish about this.........

ITALIAN CHEATERS !

Fifa help you, and for the last match of zidane, you have insult him !

BAD TEAM !

Poor french you make me fell such a piety... What don't you unterstand? That Italy has won 4 world cups and france only one? don't be so sad! A famous frenchman has said: french are italians with bad mood... yes i agree...

CHEATERS !

If Fifa is not with you. You don't even deserve to qualify in your group.

You aren't abble to play football, you only used your money to buy the referee.

He said more than monkey...

Well, I wanted France to win, and matbe they should have done, but it wasn't to be. I don't know about you, but I think a world cup won on penalties means very little - I didn't even bother to watch them - but then I'm not Italian

As for Mad-Dog's questions/observations:

I don't know why Italy played so bad second half and extra time; maybe France surprised them the way they played after a not so good first half, maybe the Italians lost their nerve a bit; I don't think it could be condition, because the Italians are younger and they had an extra day's rest.

2nd striker came on too late - Yes, definitely! I think France could have won in 90 minutes if they had given the Italian defence more to think about - they only had to worry about Henry.

Why take Henry out? Because he was exhausted, that was clear - but he wouldn't have been exhausted if he hadn't had to play up on his own.

Zizou - what can you say? Materazzi must have known what he was saying to provoke a reaction like that, but whatever the provocation it was a stupid thing to do.

Domenech - I agree that he left the important decisions too late and should have brought Trezeguet on earlier - but is he really in charge of things anyway?

Still, c'est la vie.

WELL DONE ITALY.

Is it important to know what he said to Zidane? Did anybody ask what was told or done to Figo to act that way? If Figo has no excuse, does Zidane have after doing something much worse?!

look zidane deserved to be sent off,but...

think about what matterazzi could have said to him that made him snap??


mabe something about his family?or something about his heritage??


now all italians can't be happy about something like this??


come on where are you guys?

these bad players have 4 world cup, and brazil 5, it's a joke !

Italians : learn to play football instead of using money.