Hit The Target News
du Nord, July 6, 2006
The World Cup Semifinal scores:France 1-0 PortugalGermany 0-2 Italy in extra time~ ~ ~ ~The inventors of French Toast, French Kissing & French Fries have advanced to Sunday's final with a team full of re-animated old boys, on a really dodgy penalty call. They had to hang on for everything they were worth at the end as Portugal poured on the pressure to tie the match up. Fab Barthez tried to give the game away with his insane version of goalkeeping meets backyard volleyball, but he did not succeed. (I still have no idea why he is on the field when the excellent Gregory Coupet is sitting a dozen or so meters away on the bench.)Match Reports:-Jason La Canfora for the Washington Post-Kim Rahir for Der Speigel-Sam Wallace for The Independent of England-Rob Hughes for the International Herald Tribune-Grahame Jones for the LA Times-Ives Galarcep for the North Jersey Herald~ ~ ~ ~More Welt Meister mania in other languages:-For all you French speakers - L'equipe-For all you Portuguese speakers - Globo Esporte-For all
People mentioned
- Aitor Karanka
- Andrea Pirlo
- Bob Gansler
- Cesc Fabregas
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Fabio Cannavaro
- Frank Lampard
- Gianluca Zambrotta
- Gianluigi Buffon
- Jimmy Conrad
- Joe Cole
- Josh Wolff
- Jürgen Klinsmann
- Landon Donovan
- Lionel Messi
- Luis Valencia
- Lukas Podolski
- Michael Ballack
- Miroslav Klose
- Patrick Vieira
- Phil Neville
- Thierry Henry
- Zinedine Zidane