World Cup 2006 News

Oh my goodness. Brazil is out of the World Cup as I was slightly predicting and France has its hero back. Zinedine Zidane showed once again what he is still able to do. Great, I loved watching him doing his special trick (you know which one I mean) again leaving two Brazilians behind. Just lovely to watch this genious play. By the way I just ordered a Zidane 2006 Jersey woohoo. The other Quarter-Final was England against Portugal which was also the quarter-final of the European Championships two years back and as before Portugal´s Ricardo was the man of the match for me saving 3 of England´s penalty shots oh my goodness. Read more

Well, today we have another pair of Quarter-Finals with two top notch games. France will play against Brazil and Portugal will face England in the first match of the game. I am really excited about these games because with Zidane and Figo two of my favorite players are probably playing their last game. I was just wondering if Brazil will give a better performance than before. We´ll see. As always I give you my bets for todays games. Read more

My photo of the day. Jens Lehmann saving the final penalty of Esteban Cambiasso’s. I must say I was suprised that our german players did so well in the penalty shootout. 4 penalties shot very well. Good work.

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Oh my goodness you wouldn´t believe what´s going on in Germany as we´re now in the semi-finals of “our” World Cup. Yesterday after the match against Argentina the streets were full of people celebrating our first win against a “Big” team in the last 5 years. It was a real great game where anyone could see that there were two equal teams playing. I must say I was close to a few heart attacks during the game tough. Read more

Wow, as promised I´ll provide you with my daily World Cup bets for the upcoming quarter-finals. You wouldn´t believe how crazy those things out there are that you can bet on or did you know that there are bets going on how who´ll be shown more often in TV either Franz Beckenbauer or Diego Maradona regarding the match Germany against Argentina. Crazy, I told you. Read more

By 5pm MET today I will have survived something about 70 hours without a World Cup ball rolling and so will you. I must say I´m relieved that this time is now over and we´re going to see some great football the next days. It all starts with Germany vs. Argentina in the afternoon and Italy vs. Ukraine in the evening. Read more

In the pre-World Cup phase I was questioning if Ronaldo might beat Muller´s record of 14 World Cup goals. I didn´t have that much doubts about it given that he scored 8 goals in 2002. But as the World Cup began to roll almost everyone was complaining about him being too fat. Anyways, he did it and if you´re like me you can´t stop watch wonderful goals so join us and watch each of Ronaldo´s 15 World Cup goals. Read more

It really does. I have to admit it´s hard without World Cup football.[photo via]

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Tomorrow we´re gonna watch the first two of our four Quarter-Finals. One of those will be Germany against Argentina. What would you be doing if you´re only one day away from probably one of the (if not THE) greatest game of your life? Would you train like hell? Sleep like an angel? I don´t know. But what I know is what the German coach Klinsmann made his players do - practicing Robin Hood style. I don´t know how this will affect tomorrows game but “Klinsi” sure does. Great!

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Uff, by the time you´re reading this I´ve survived 34 of the 70 hours without a World Cup game. Tough time for all of us. While you´re waiting you might be interested in a few things though. Marcus Allbäck of Sweden scored the 2,000th World Cup goal, Graham Poll (Mr. 3 yellow cards) has been sent home and Ronaldo scored his 15th World Cup goal. Bob over at WCB has found a galery of 50 real nice goals you might wanna check that out.

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