You mean last time and not last year right? Zidane really stained his image...it was his last game and he had to go and do that no matter what the circumstances are, that just looks bad. Unless of course that italian guy personally hurt him like made a pass at his wife or something

Hmmm if Korea gets a medal, would it be the first time in world cup history that an asian team get one?

As for Zidane the Italian player was talking smack about his sister, it wasn't the first he went overboard with it. it seem Zidane was holding it back but the guy pushed him to the limit. I don't think its a blemish on him it was a great way to go out LOL. That Italian guy deserved it and then some.

if an asian team gets a medal that would be great. Hopefully they have honor and don't sell out to the other countries. Funny how African teams always sellout, they usually have one star player and the rest are nobodies. Well i suppose being offered 1 mil euro or dollars will help a player greatly.

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check out the headbutt on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjWi663kXc

also soccer legend Diego maridona made an appearance at the cup. interesting.

btw, USA men will not win lol....they have never won or will ever win. I bet that they will not win even in 12 years (3 world cups). USA men is a crap team that I root for

There is just so little interest in football...so little that we call it soccer...

The only time USA wins anything big in football is the women's team. USA just doesn't pump as much money into football as they do into other sports. They should just end baseball ;D

As you can tell from this article: http://online.wsj.com/article....orldCup
There's not even enough interest in USA to make people slack off at work.

For this world cup, I'm thinking Brazil, Germany, and Korea that will enter the quarters.

Based on performance now your right about brazil, ger and kor. I had a feeling about the USA but it doesnt look like their performance will improve this year. Funny how you still root for them even though you acknowledge they suck.

Man Korea and the asian teams are on fire. GREECE was like WTF!! when they lost to Korea. Total disbelief.

LMAO countries productivity dipped in the billions during the world cup. U.S doesnt even care everyone is so apathetic.
In europe bosses take the cup into consideration when making employee schedules that just kills me. Shoot somebody is they dont make em watch the cup lol.

US is a random luck team. They are not consistent, but sometimes they get real lucky like how they made it to the finals of the recent FIFA Confederation Cup. They did lackluster in group play, but in the semi-finals they beat Spain 2-0 and in the finals lost to Brazil 2-3. On paper this looks pretty good, however, if you look at statistics and ball possession percentage of those games...it's all luck lol.

Which is why it's so fun rooting for a team that is an underdog that has random luck shooting off.

Sorry gotta disagree.. Pele ftw. But no doubt that Maradona is 2nd to him.

I've been trying to watch the games this year as much as possible..lol

Ps. I LOVE FOOTBALL/SOCCER!