World Cup Poll

Polls closed, i had 31 responses, i guess it was 16 and 15 in favour of france,well Italy won! more to come soon!my views on the game!

Football Glory or Is it!

The world cup is in its closing stages, the finalists have been decided, Italy plays France for the ultimate prize in world football on July 9th. Italy/France, an unlikely combination for the final, sure they are good teams, but do they really deserve to be here? Were they better than the 30 other countries who played alongside? certainly debateable!.I was expecting a Brazil/Argentina encounter in the finals, by far the two most talented sides in the competition, but both failed to get past the quarter finals, Brazil never got going and Argentina were undone by a German team, fuelled by self-belief.Now back to the two finalists, Italy had a somewhat easy route to the semi-finals but they did play well against the Germans and due credit to them they are in the finals now. France on the other hand, had problems from the outset of the competition, the coach and "certain" senior players did not see eye to eye, but i guess winning changes all that and the more you win the stronger the self belief gets and the stronger that delicate coach-player relationship gets. It certainly will be an interesting game to watch, the final, more of a tactical battle, rather that outright offense which is what the Bra/Arg game would have provided, both the teams are defensively well marshalled, with cannavarro leading the way for Italy and Thuram for France.Matchups which will be interesting, Zizou vs Cannavaro, Totti vs Thuram. My prediction, well neither one is a team whose style of play i particularly like, but i am inclined to side with France, cause Zizou playing his last game, it does have a sentimental ring to it.
PS: Compare the Argentinian team with these two, is it even a comparison!ahh the ironies of the game
Argentina:
ABBONDANZIERI Roberto
AYALA Roberto
SORIN Juan
SCALONI Lionel
HEINZE Gabriel
RIQUELME Juan
MASCHERANO Javier
CAMBIASSO Esteban
RODRIGUEZ Maxi
SAVIOLA Javier
CRESPO Hernan

And Messi and Tevez off the bench!