Zidane’s Al Qaida ties revealed
It was revealed today that French-Algerian Soccer star Zenedine Zidane has had ties to Al Qaida and its leader the notorious Osama Bin Laden for over ten years. In fact, prior to 9/11, Zidane had contributed over $10 million to the terrorist organization. What caused the head butt in the World Cup final that France lost on Sunday, was when the Italian defender called him “Bin Laden” It had nothing to do with a slur against his sister or mother as had previously been reported.
Israel ‘exploiting World Cup
A leading hardline Iranian cleric on Friday accused Israel of exploiting international public attention on the World Cup in order to commit “dastardly deeds” in the Gaza Strip.”They are doing dastardly deeds and they are doing it while people are attentively following the events of the World Cup,” Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a sermon at Tehran University.
Iran was knocked out of the football tournament in the first round, and state television has now begun showing film clips of Israeli violence - juxtaposed with happy World Cup spectators - in its ongoing match coverage.
“The security situation there is such that no one and nothing has any safety,” Jannati said of the Gaza Strip, under fierce attack since Palestinian militants captured an Israeli soldier on June 25.
Drawing chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”, Jannati also took a swipe at the Muslim clergy.
“Why are you keeping silent while the atrocities are going on? If you do not protest you are supporting them,” said the ayatollah, who heads Iran’s Guardian Council - a powerful political and electoral watchdog controlled by hardliners.
Italy will beat France for championship
Two stylish European teams meet at the World Cup final in Berlin on Sunday – one with youth and an extra off day on its side, the other with the greatest player at this tournament, Zinedine Zidane.
Neither of them the pre-tournament favorites, France and Italy each survived several close calls, several crises and one remarkable competitive test to get this far. As the professorial French coach, Raymond Domenech put it, “There were two real deeds in this cup. Our deed against Brazil, and then Italy beating Germany in Dortmund, and they did it in style.”
Euro ‘06
The World Cup has turned into a European Cup, with the French dismantling of favored, and overrated Brazil. The Franch dominated the game. The score should have been 3-0. Brazil couldn’t get a shot off. They had no problems with Austrailia and Ghana, but once they had a little competition, Brazil faded.
If England had defeated Portugal, you would have had a reenactment of the Munich conference of 1938, with Germany, Italy, France and England.
Get a real sport, world
Europeans are humans that didn’t leave the location they were living in 1,000,000 years ago, so they did not grow as big as other humans who left. So basically all you got was a bunch of tiny primates in an area. They took up a sport called soccer, and they played it alot.
Soccer is played by people that are less athletic than people in the USA. The athletes in soccer basically look like average guys. Now take a look at athletes in sports played in the USA. Even by looking at the physical differentiation of the players one can see that athletes in the USA are on the whole more athletic than people who play soccer in the world cup. Basketball players need to be extremely tall or ridiculously athletic if they are small.
Sports like football and basketball require athletes to pump steroids in their bodies to keep up with the level of play that is now being acheived. How many soccer players have been caught for steroids? Answer: NONE. That is because they suck. Get a real sport, world.
A few moderately talented athletes in the US took up the sport. Now I will not argue that soccer is an inferior sport in its design, but I will say that the athletes playing it are far inferior to athletes in the United States. If Lebron James began had played soccer his whole life instead of basketball, he would be the best player in the world. Fuck soccer.
Quarterfinal classic: Germany vs. Argentina
- Germany and Argentina have met twice in World Cup championship games, each winning once: Argentina 3-2 in the 1986 final and West Germany 1-0 in 1990. This will be their fifth game in all World Cup play, and Germany has won two, draw one and lost one.
- Argentina coach Jose Pekerman and Klinsmann, both widely criticized, have proven the skeptics wrong. Both have gone with relatively young teams.
- It will be Germany’s size against the relatively small and much quicker South Americans.
- Both teams feed off two topflight midfielders, Argentina’s Juan Roman Riquelme and Germany’s Ballack.
Zidane’s key free kick, goal lead Frenchmen to 3-1 victory
French fans had not celebrated with such abandon in a World Cup stadium since 1998. Then again, Zinedine Zidane had not played a game like this one in eight years.
They’re not ready to throw his retirement party just yet.
The French captain set up the deciding goal on Tuesday night, then scored one of his own minutes later to lead France to a 3-1 win over hard-luck Spain.
Ronaldo sets record as Brazil rips Ghana
Ronaldo broke free early, flashed past Ghana’s flailing goalkeeper and poked the ball into the net.
With one swift move in the fifth minute Tuesday, the superstar striker overtook German Gerd Mueller as the greatest scorer in World Cup history, spoiled Ghana’s scrappy debut and put defending champion Brazil into its fourth straight quarterfinals.
“I want to continue to increase the record,” Ronaldo said, “but without forgetting that the main goal in the World Cup is winning the title.”
Police patrol German city to disuade English revelers
STUTTGART, Germany — Fears of fan violence fizzled Sunday as tens of thousands of raucous English supporters peacefully celebrated their team’s advance to the World Cup quarterfinals under a heavy police presence.
Beer, expletives and patriotic songs flowed freely — but an evening downpour and victory helped restrain the crowds.
It was a contrast to Saturday, when riot police arrested more than 500 English who hurled bottles and plastic chairs in separate outbursts.
In the free open-air viewing area Sunday, middle-aged couples and families with children — some carrying the German flag — mingled with fans clad in flags or walking around shirtless to bare patriotic tattoos.
“It’s a party. We’re here to have fun,” whooped Kevin Penfold as he swapped his red England shirt for an Ecuadorean one worn by Ana Cecilia Pinos Flores, who struggled to put on her sweat-soaked acquisition.
Nearby, an English fan with his chest hairs dyed ginger and shaved in the shape of a cross grinned benignly in an alcoholic daze as his friends covered him in a flag. Others bellowed songs about downing German bombers in World War II.
Beckham leads Britain into Quarters
David Beckham bent the ball over the wall and squeezed England into the World Cup quarterfinals.
Beckham curled a trademark 25-yard free kick just inside the post in the 60th minute, giving England an ugly 1-0 victory over Ecuador on Sunday and a berth against the Netherlands or Portugal.
The England captain, whose free kicks inspired the 2003 movie title “Bend it Like Beckham,” hooked the ball ever so carefully over a defensive wall of four Ecuadoreans in bright yellow shirts.
Struck with expert touch, the ball dipped toward the corner, where goalkeeper Cristian Mora dived to his right and caught a piece of it with his fingertips. But he couldn’t stop it from shaving the post and squirting into the net.
Beckham ran wildly toward the center of the field, hooking an arm around Ashley Cole. Victoria Adams, his pop star wife formerly known as Posh Spice, jumped up in the stands.