Straffo, that gif is cut, he didn't hold his head when on the ground.
Just cry and shut up!
Fishu, the holding from behind is a thing that usually happens in football, and, if you watch the movie, there even wasn't any struggle between them, Zidane hit Materazzi for something he was saying... and the only way to answer to words is with your mouth, not with your head.
During the first half I saw a good Italy, and a great match, I liked the way they reacted to France's goal (btw, Frenchy, yes, the penalty was too generous, while Zambrotta's tackle in the second half was more serious), but from the second half to the penalties, they lost their head. But, again, consider this: most of the players are inexperienced in great international competion, just think about Grosso, 5 years ago he was playing in C2 league (in Italy we have A league, B, C1, C2, in decreasing order of importance), yesterday night he scored the decisive penalty in the final of World Championship. Anyway, our defence hold, as always, and took us to the end.
Stringer, I think both of our attacker were in offside when we scored the second goal, I may be wrong, though.
Zidane is not new to that kind of show, he made that other times, it's just so sad, I was hoping for him to make a better good bye to the national team (I root for Juventus, he was one of our best player, he's still in my heart, but I was really let down by that head strike - oh, well, I was even happy, of course
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In the end, yesterday night we "avenged" a lot of delusions: we lost the cup in 1994 to Brazil with penalties, now we won it with penalties; in 1998 we were eliminated by France with penalties, now we beat them with penalties; in European Championship, in 2000, we lost the cup to France with a golden goal by Trezeguet, who, yesterday, was the only French to miss the penalty. Now I'm satisfied!
So, there's only one more thing to say:
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CAMPIONI DEL MONDO!*[/size]
*which, for you not italian-speaking, means: World champions!
