World Cup 2006 News

A whole nation was crying out loud “Zidane président” again which means Zidane for president. The last time we significantly heard that was in summer 1998 when a 26-year-old Zinedine Zidane just scored 2 goals against Brazil in the World Cup final in France. Yesterday in the evening we kinda got this feeling again as “Zizou” scored the decisive 1-0 by penalty shot against Portugal. It´s the perfect story. He will play his last match on Sunday. But this last match can´t be compared to other players last games it´s the World Cup final just as the best player of all time deserves it. Read more

Remember Mr. 3 yellow cards in one game? Yeah you do. Graham Poll was the one with this little mishap. It does sound funny but the football governing body considers to allow a player to get 3 yellow cards before being banned in future World Cups. So far two yellow cards and you´re banned from the next game you know the stuff. Read more

Today´s the day of the second semi-final. We have France playing Portugal in Munich at 9pm MET. I like both teams equally so may be tonight I won´t be that close to a heart attack like yesterday. Although I really hope “Zizou” will give such a shining performance as in the quarter-final against Brazil. It´s just a pleasure to watch him do what he is known to be best in. Read more

This is a short one. I just adapted the World Cup Winner poll as Germany dropped out we´re now down to three teams that might win on Sunday. This evening either France or Portugal will drop out as well. Please give your opinion and thanks to everyone who already did. Cheers.

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I didn´t think that I had to write these lines today but Germany is out of the World Cup after a high-class game against Italy which ended up being a little more cooler as our coach Klinsmann called it. I´m hugely disappointed it really felt like we could make it this year. Read more

I didn´t realize that with now 60 games played and a total of 138 goals we didn´t see a hat-trick so far this year. That´s strange because every World Cup has at least seen one of them. Nevertheless we can keep a little bit of our confidence that we´ll see at least one guy scoring 3 goales because those two players who did so are still in the tournament. 2002 Portugal´s Pauletta and Germany´s Klose each scored 3 goals in a game. Even though that I don´t really believe in a hat-trick in the semi-finals it´s still possible. I just wanted you to know.

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We´re now on day 1 of the semi-finals. Tonight Germany and Italy will fight over the first place in this years World Cup Final. Even with Frings banned whole Germany seems to be confident that we´ll make it to the final on Sunday. For one thing Germany does have adequate players on the bench. I guess Borowski will be the Frings-substitute. And we do have a whole nation behind us. You wouldn´t believe what´s going on here. It´s just great and I feel bad that it will be over that soon. Read more

Obviously Jürgen Klinsmann has his hands full with work now that he has to set up a team without Frings as he was suspended for tomorrows semi-final against Italy by the football governing body. I can´t say how much that disappoints me. The Germans get attacked by some stupid Argentinian players that are afraid of losing and now we get one of our best players banned. Good work. Read more

Ok, if I should name one team that has not earned its place among the last 4 teams in the World Cup I´d definitely say Italy. Not only has the “Azzuri” not shown the shining football of the pre World Cup phase - no! Now they´re hunting down Torsten Frings who might have hit an Argentinian player after being attacked himself. What would you be doing if some crazy freak hits you in the face? That´s just perfidious. So please back off or are we questioning any of Italy´s players that might or might not be involved in the Italian scandal? So stay calm and try to play decent football, thanks.

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Our last poll was aiming on how far the defending World Cup champion Brazil might advance this year. Yesterday, we learned that the quarter-finals are the stage of the drop out of the champions therefore we need a new poll and now we´re getting back to what the question was about. I just name the new question who´ll win the World Cup. But before that I owe you the results of the last vote. Firstly, let me thank everybody that has voted in any of the polls here at World Cup News Blog before. Read more