I would say "Milanese should thank Shevchenko for what he did to milan" and by the way take all your foreign players off Italian ligue (England and Spain try the same in yours) and you'd put yourself on your knees to ask them to come back.
About the final: Penalty yes, foul on Malouda: buy a giant screen, look the replay on it and you see that the italian defender touch the back of the right leg. 2 nd half an another penalty but refused to Malouda (lucky Italia). Italia was overplayed in the 2nd half and extra time. They did not create any chance at all, and even not trying to create anything.

The French have reasons to be bad loosers, (even not talking about the video refereing) such like the Italian have reasons to be bad winners:
Such like in 1982 a scandal is coming in their national ligue in which italians players (already full of money) and referees cheated to make more money again.
The president of an Italian politic party said yesterday night that "that is Italian victory on negroes and muslims".
You can't change the Italian their demons allways come back (like for Zidane?).

trasher we kicked the [beep!] out of you useless psot soviet [beep!]/


shut up

the frogs stil croak croak croak...

accept defeat.

it was payback time for euro2000.

it is not my fault that your coach took off your best players and zidane took off himself

enough of your whinging and whining

we give at least a classic in this world cup the game against germany..

and you only played better yesterday because you had more energy after the scrappy win to portugal(mind you one of those teams that could go on playing for 2 days and not score..)

as to the ukrainians...ah ah

3-0 says it all doesn't it?

1934 1938 1982 2006 and the next one 2030 eh eh

au revoir platini

against germany yes this was great football,but the final?


i think you must be a bit embarrest to see your team play such a final after beatting germany so good!

1934 and 1938??oh please


viva brazil!the true home of football

zico 1982 still hurts huh.How can you say that italy did not deserve to win

and 1994 ...how did you win....3-0 4-0...noooooooo


you won on PK

so let us enjoy in peace

and tell me if anyone has done better than us:

12 goals amde
2 conceded ( 1 own goal 1 pk doubtful)

so can you give some credit to the winners or not?

but I read in other forums that Materrazi said "you're a ingratitude dog who was raised by Italy."

players say offensive things to other players all the time. however ....... there is no excuse for deliberately heading another player!!!!!

if materazzi said that is right.all these vain frenchmen like platini desailly and zidane...they were made rich by italian clubs ..and when they left they started slandering the country that fed them

well done marco

zizou vaffanculo

zidane had what he deserved



campioni del mondo ALLA FACCIA DEI FRANCESI

24 hours did not pass from Zidane's reaction and Materazzi, according to the informations already going around, told so many things that could not even fit a 2 day's match...

...Zidane behaved like an animal for a couple of seconds. He's not the victim.

OWNED

ITALIANO please be fair-play in the victory and stop insult Zizou he makes a fantatisc world cup.

Except heading Matterazzi

Of course zizou deserved the red card.

But Materazzi certainly deserved a good headbutt in the mouth (ZZ aimed a little bit too low in fact) but NOT during the final of the worldcup !!!!

Only after the match maybe in the corridor to the changing room.

Guys.. but did u play football in your life? During the match players say a lot of horrible things.. is not funny, ok, but also this is football.

Zidane was stupid. Stop.

Zidane deserved the red card, but also did Materazzi if he said that.

As a French fan, I'm deeply afflicted by what I can read on this topic from French, Italian, and other fans.

Matterazzi is a dumb ass for sure and I hope Zizou will sooner or later tell what this moron said to him. Anyway, in 50 years the most remembered of the two will be Zidane, so...

This doesn't excuse his gesture though, but I think it had no effect on the team's spirit, they kept on attacking during the last ten minutes. Plus, apart from Trézéguet, all Frenchmen scored their penalties, and Trézéguet was sort of unlucky since Buffon was obviously beaten on his shot.

I read one post saying that, when the Italians were exhausted - and actually they were exhausted from the middle of the 2nd half till the end of extra time - more French players should have been attacking to make a decisive difference. That is probably true. Hadn't the French team been a little hesitant given they feared (and they were right to fear) Italian technique in "contropiedi", at one point in time we would have scored a goal giving us the world cup.

I don't think Domenech's coaching was bad, he waited patiently to change players and replacing Henry was logical given how exhausted he was.

So, congrats to the Italians who'd been waiting for 24 years before winning it again, "rendez-vous" in September at the Stade de France for the Euro 2008 qualifiers.

To all French fans who're disappointed, don't forget that we're anyway among the few nations who won the World Cup and that, if the job is done well, we'll go to Austria and Switzerland in 2008 to gain our 3rd Euro and then to South Africa in 4 years to hopefully claim this time our second world title.

This is a defeat full of nostalgy but also full of hopes for the future...

ALLEZ LES BLEUS

Do you mean its normal to insult and provocate a player like zidane in a final of the world cup ?

I mean it's not a serie C match !

Showing a little bit of respect for the player is too much for MAterazzi?


This guy is a pathetic and mean human being.

Once again I do not contest Italy's victory, why should I?
it was fully deserved, but I am so sad for Zidane, this is a real tragedy for him.
It is too easy to say "it is well deserved, he is so stupid".

If players are so used to be insulted then what Materazzi said must have been really shocking for him.