I like Zidane too and I'd like him to go out in style thus I wish him to score one goal, a great one, one of those tipical of him in his best period, but I also hope Toni scores 2 goals (quite a few points for my fantateam) and one Gilardino. Italy 3 - France 1

FORZA AZZURRI!!!

well the best goalie i've ever seen for the Italians and then Zidane and Henry on the French team
wow will be a great game!!!

i want France to win but think it will be Italy 2 - France 1

i don't know i hope only there is a good referee and hope that all the two teams give us good game, but it will be hard for us.

I think the match against Portugal was the most difficult for the moment, and it will continue, France has played against very difficult teams since the beginning, in the qualifying round (Switzerland, Ireland, Israel), in the group G (Switzerland, South Korea, Togo), Spain, Brazil, Portugal. We had a difficult draw.

Zidane will finish his career in a world cup finale, it's great.

Yes, I agree, the main thing is to have a fair referee, grand match and good supporters.

Getting teh cup at the end of the match would be perfect

France will make it 2-1!

RC Lens: you had an hard group with Togo, Swiss and Korea??????

You have been lucky in the group.. we in 1/8 and 1/4...

South Korea was the 4th of the wc 2002.

Switzerland have eliminated Turkey (3rd of the wc 2002), Turkey have eliminated Greece (european Champion 2004).

We haven't been lucky, we have missed two victories against Switzerland (the hand of Muller in the box that should have given us a penalty), and Korea (the head of Viera who enter the cage not validated by the referee).

That's why that final is a little strange because both team were pretty so-so in this world cup, but have been stronger in the end...

My thoughts are that Italy will get more than enough looks at the goal to make up for the mere handful that France will get, and coupled with Buffon > Barthez, I give Italy a lightly-contested 2-0 victory.

On the other hand France has proven plenty capable of defying expectations...and they have Zidane. I hate France, but I love the way Zidane plays the game, and would love to see him go out with the trophy in his hands.

i wanna see cannavaro with the world cup in his hands
thats my dream, please God please

FORZA RAGAZZI ci siamo quasi FORZAAA

Hi ancann! Me too, I want at least one goal from Zizou to finish his career with honor

I'll have to double ditto on this one! the ref is soooo important!!! I hope he is a fair one.

ancann....if Italy wins will there be a national holiday the Monday after do you think?

I guess I'd like to ask French fans the same....Monday off to party in the streets of the cities?

which ever one wins would love to be there for the celebration!!!!! i can just imagine.

Should be!
If the USA won....we'd have to be at work early the next day lol...we don't celebrate much.

I just saw on here in the news section that Elizanzo has been chosen to ref the final. I think that's going to be fine....

Comment ca va ami? I too am a french fan and am happy we made it this far again. I can't agree with you more. I was hoping to see David Trezuguet more in this world cup but Raymond Domenech kept putting Louis Saha in as a sub instead. The one game without Zidane we saw Trezuguet had some good vision and moves. Never mind Domenech didn't even put Pires on the team this time!!!! Either way I think we will all see more of Trezuguet in the finals because Saha has two yellow cards and can't sub in for Henry this time.

POUR LE PATRIE ENCORE UN FOIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment vas-tu mon pote? lol Yeah, I agree that it's strange to see Louis Saha in this team, but well he was selected so there was a good reason I guess... Saha is known to be a good sprinter so he can be useful in counter, but he doesn't keep the ball very well... The problem with Trezeguet is that he is a total different striker, in fact he is more a "waiting" striker, not very speed but very dangerous in the opponent zone. He is an equivalent of Van Nistelrooy, Inzaghi or Klose, Henry at the opposite side is more a Ronaldo (the brazilian one), Del Piero or Owen. So using Trezeguet means that we won't play a constructive game, but a side game with center passes, or a closed game (like in the italian league). So that's why I feel that Trezeguet should be more useful.

That's just an opinion (I'm not the only one to think that though...), if I were right I should have been the french coach insteed of Domenech

Saha definitely has world class skills, but so does Ludovic Giuly. I think as always that Trezuguet has some good tricks up his sleeve if he's even put in for Thierry Henry this final. Whatever happens, Zizou will light our way!!!!!!!!!

ALLEZ TOUT LE TRAJET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we won't have official bank holiday but I guess we'll have quite a few unofficial ones.
Celebrations will definetely be grand here in Italy... We're trying to get the WC since 1982, we got very close a few times since then but never grabbed.
I guess maybe celebrations will be slightly less in France, as they "just" won one WC and one european cup, we saw the european trophy vanishing from our hands the last seconds of the match.

I'd have preferred to have Portugal for the semifinal but now I'm even happier 'cause:

1) the match it's gonna be epic
2) Whoever gets the cup (hopefully us) will feel it more deserved, with no mean of being unkind towards Portugal.

FORZA RAGAZZI!!!!!

Hey! Thinking about that match, in this world cup, a team that usually beat another team in world cup won. Italy used to beat Germany->Italy wins, Germany used to beat Argentina->Germany wins, Portugal used to beat England->Portugal wins, France used to beat Brazil->France wins and...

...and, for that final, France used to beat Italy, Italy haven't beat France for a long time in a world cup! So? What do you think about that?

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!!! (I'm starting to do the same thing as ancann )

freddy25 aussie or yankee...possbily germans... you are out... and yeah great actor...well your holliwood crap can't even suck the Little Johnny of the great italian classics...

usa scum go back to your idiotic american football...

You can read it like this: statistically we just had a negative serie with France thus it's time to start with the positive sequence.
Another statistic stuff is that we participate to a final every 12 years and we win one every 24, the last we won was in 1982. Next sunday we'll come to know whether this statistic rule it's true or not.

I'm looking forward to enjoy the match.

FORZA AZZURRI!!!

P.S. Supposedly ITALIANO, please, do me a favour: change your nick

Good luck to both, but because i love Zidane, i wan't him to get the Cup with the last game in his career. And he is the only one who can beat this italian defense.

I have just mad the Italy-France on my playstation, and I beat Italy 2-0!!! YEAH!!!

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!!!

Madison...

If Italy win monday morning I will be in my office at 8 am o'clock..
... but monday 17th July !!!

I hope 1-0 at 93 minute with something stupid by Barthez...

Well, neither I do like Barthez very much... I still remember the french kissing his forehead before shooting the penalties, and we lost, and these memories still hurt; anyway I'd rather prefer Italy to win wothout leaving any shadow of doubts: 2-0 or, if we wanna leave Zidane a final ovation, 3-1.

FORZA AZZURRI!!!