World Cup 2006 News

The great day is here. This evening will decide whether France win its second title within the last 8 years or Italy will gain its fourth star. Tough thing. Take a look a the poll that is going on here on World Cup News Blog. We´re down to 50:50 with a tiny lead of France with 86 votes to 85 for Italy. Great, I hope it´ll really gonna be a great game. It´s still a little sad now that one great month full of football has come to an end. Read more

We have a winner. Italy won 5-3 over France after penalty shoot out. Trezeguet was the one to hit the bar for France for which Barthez couldn´t make up and so Grosso scored the decisive penalty to gain Italy´s fourth star on the jersey. Oh Zizou, what a tragic hero. Scoring the hell of a penalty, playing like a godsend once again but in the end one moment of unreasonable crazyness. It doesn´t matter what Materazzi said if only you kept cool Zizou. Read more

Germany´s forward Miroslav Klose won the Golden shoe for the best scorer. He scored 5 goals as in 2002 as well two clear than another 8 players that each scored 3 goals. This amount is the lowest by the tournament’s leading scorer since the 1962 World Cup in Chile, when six players scored four times. Ok, don´t blame “Miro” he did what he could. It was nice seeing him teach Lukas Podolski how to get stuff done. Thanks you guys for a great Tournament. Read more

France captain Zinedine Zidane was named the most valuable player of this year´s World Cup. He can´t make up for what he did to Marco Materazzi but considering his play during the finals of the World Cup he was the most outstanding player for me as well. Read more