World Cup 2006

actually, I'm going to root for France. they have the hottest players: Zidane and Henry star in some of my favorite 'dreams'.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]actually, I'm going to root for France. they have the hottest players: Zidane and Henry star in some of my favorite 'dreams'.

Her alafairnadia- one more post and you join me as "Way Too Incestial". There will be no Minister or Propaganda for a few more days (until armchair warrior gets there).

Whyfi is pretty close too.

sadly, being "Way Too Incestial" does nothing for my desire for Zidane and Henry to show up at my door.

Am looking for someplace too - but not for $30.

I don't want to try Floyds because I think opening day at a bar + throngs of World Cup fans = a recipe for bad service while they work the kinks out.

Anybody have any other local (PS-ish) suggestions?

this would be a great opp for me to meet some people if a few of you guys are getting together! i'll keep an eye on the board to see if people come up with a place in the hood to watch.

what an awful way to end the game...PKs suck! and that was a disgrace by zidane....

Flexichick wrote: I love Zidane, but that was a horrible way to end his career. WTF was he thinking? I'm guessing that guy said something terrible and Z snapped. Maybe he said something about his mother? :?:

I'm curious to see what he has to say for himself. For shame, Zidane.

the guy has been ejected from other games before for similar stuff, so I guess he's got a snapping point. but yeah, I wish he'd waited til after the game.

and also a "raghead".

Here's one more reason I hate World Cup . . . and Bensonhurst

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July 11, 2006
Racial Incidents Mar Italy’s World Cup Celebration
By PETER KIEFER
ROME, July 11 — Swastikas spray painted in Rome’s ancient Jewish ghetto sullied Italy’s joy after its World Cup victory on Sunday, as did racial comments made by a former government minister about the French team.

Italy’s interior minister, Giuliano Amato, said today that a number of swastikas were daubed on the walls of Rome’s Jewish quarter during the postgame festivities. “As an Italian I feel ashamed, and as interior minister I am alarmed by such things,” Mr. Amato reportedly said during a visit to Rome’s main synagogue.

And a number of Italian politicians and the French ambassador to Italy issued a strong rebuke to remarks made by Roberto Calderoli, the former minister of reform and a member of the right-wing National Alliance Party. After the Cup victory he said that the Italians had vanquished a French team that was comprised of “Negroes, communists and Moslems.” Italian soccer is no stranger to extremist politics. Italian football matches are often used as a platform for far-right fans to express racist sentiments.

There is no love lost between Italian fans and the French, especially France’s star Zinedine Zidane, who was sent off in the waning minutes of the World Cup final for head-butting the Italian defender, Marco Materazzi, apparently after being taunted. Mr. Zidane and members of his family have emerged as a favorite target of Italian insults. Some of those relatives have reportedly said they believed Mr. Materazzi had called Mr. Zidane a “terrorist,’’ a charge the Italian player has denied.

As for Mr. Calderoli, this is his latest brush with controversy. During the international crisis over the publishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, Mr. Calderoli was forced to resign from his ministerial post earlier this year after making statements supporting the use of force against Muslims and wearing a T-shirt on national television with one of the cartoons emblazoned on it.

Mr. Calderoli’s television appearance precipitated attacks on the Italian embassy in Libya in which at least 11 people were killed and dozens injured.

After the climactic game Sunday, there were brief clashes between the police and bottle-throwing rowdies in Rome’s city center. On Monday, hundreds of thousands of fans joyously welcomed the arrival of their world champion team at the Circus Maximus in Rome.