just got in.. who did Trezeguet piss off to not be in the game?

6/13/2006 1:45:13 PM

The entire team, the manager, and the whole of the French Football Federation.

6/13/2006 1:46:23 PM

what'd he do? just being too one on one or what? because they could certainly use him right now at the end of the game, even if he isnt too much of a team player because they need a win.

6/13/2006 1:48:53 PM

France just proved to the world that they went back to how they were prior to 98...

I think they would be better off making perfumes than play soccer..

6/13/2006 2:02:41 PM

France is just pulling an Italy of old - they aren't looking great now, but they'll pull it together.

6/13/2006 2:09:28 PM

LET THE SAMBA BEGIN

6/13/2006 2:56:34 PM

6/13/2006 2:57:15 PM

BOO HRVATSKA

6/13/2006 2:59:03 PM

love the croatian kit:



[Edited on June 13, 2006 at 2:59 PM. Reason : []

6/13/2006 2:59:24 PM

Jesus, I got goosebumps watching that and they didn't even get the ball in the box.

Nutmegs in the open field in close marking. Yeesh.

[Edited on June 13, 2006 at 3:09 PM. Reason : ddd]

6/13/2006 3:03:43 PM

do you think they could find a better keeper in all of france than fabian barthez?

6/13/2006 3:15:12 PM

There are only four people in France who don't run from projectiles. Barthez and Coupet are the most skilled of the four.

6/13/2006 3:17:33 PM

I like this ref.. he seems to be letting them play for the most part... by the way Brazil is looking really good so far.

6/13/2006 3:18:28 PM

Ronaldo looks tired already.

6/13/2006 3:23:11 PM

hahaha he didnt even attempt to put pressure on the ball when they were passing around the defense.. he just stood there the entire time.. i look for Adriano to have a big WC b/c everyones talkin about Ronaldo

6/13/2006 3:25:43 PM

1-0

6/13/2006 3:46:11 PM

Kaka with one

nice shot

6/13/2006 3:46:36 PM

placement>power

6/13/2006 3:46:53 PM

Did anyone else notice Prso's World Cup patch on his right arm was about to fall off?

6/13/2006 3:49:56 PM

yeah i noticed that during the entire first half

6/13/2006 3:51:42 PM

kaka will be racking up fifa player of the year awards very shortly

6/13/2006 4:01:19 PM

yeah, kaka has a strong shot

6/13/2006 4:37:18 PM

haha, you see that fan run on the field?

and all the flairs

6/13/2006 4:46:38 PM

Haha, yeah. We'll never get to have the flairs here.

How about that World Dominoes Championship. Yet another "sport" for ESPN's family of networks to show.

[Edited on June 13, 2006 at 5:04 PM. Reason : dominoes]

6/13/2006 4:54:17 PM

we'll always have

6/13/2006 4:57:56 PM

Quote :

"I like this ref.. he seems to be letting them play for the most part... by the way Brazil is looking really good so far."

interesting you say that, bc while they obviously looked good (i mean come on they are really good), I didn't think they looked as invincible as everyone is making them out to be. I mean I agree with the announcer who said this game will give a lot of country's hope. Team's are definetly gonna be able to play with them

6/13/2006 4:58:27 PM

Yeah i said that pretty early in the game.. I am gonna doubt Brazil can win it all unless they do something about Ronaldo. Robhino obviously should be in the Starting lineup over Ronaldo but you know it wont happen because Ronaldo is Ronaldo. Their defense did look suspect at times only because they push up so much. I agree they can be beaten.

6/13/2006 5:10:32 PM

Italy will unseat Brazil

6/13/2006 5:16:12 PM

^don't give up the hope man, we can beat italia, but if we don't, italy will be my horse

6/13/2006 5:18:29 PM

interesting

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13266605/displaymode/1176/rstry/13296787/rpage/6/

6/13/2006 6:20:47 PM

^hope she doesn't start receiving death threats because of that

6/13/2006 6:30:36 PM

The mother of all political matches tomorrow: Germany-Poland.

6/13/2006 8:14:08 PM

brazil looked nothing like brazil

6/13/2006 8:53:54 PM

^the best explanation that I've heard for their poor performance today is that Brazil is taking it slow
to avoid serious injuries to their players before reaching higher levels in the tournament.

6/13/2006 8:58:12 PM

is the game broadcasted in English too? I've been watching it in Spanish on cable ch 17

6/13/2006 9:15:54 PM

every game is either on ABC, ESPN, or ESPN2.. most have been on ESPN2

6/13/2006 9:18:01 PM

they replay games on ESPN Classic in the afternoons

[Edited on June 13, 2006 at 9:20 PM. Reason : and you can watch them on ESPN broadband]

6/13/2006 9:20:02 PM

^^^ wow, just wow.

6/13/2006 9:22:34 PM

I don't get the ESPNs at the rents house and I just got back from Spain for a semester so its all good

6/13/2006 9:28:34 PM

ok, thats a good excuse

6/13/2006 9:29:23 PM

watching the replays on the Spanish channels now

6/13/2006 11:37:59 PM

Anyone want to handicap tomorrows game? The only one I'm sure about is Germany over Poland.


Don't know enough about Ukraine but off the top of my head I'll pick Spain.

Spain
Ukraine

In my opinion this would be the hardest game to call..

Tunisia
Saudi Arabia

6/13/2006 11:41:31 PM

Spain wins 1-0

Tunisia wins 2-0

6/13/2006 11:50:05 PM

You're already half wrong...

Spain up 2-0 in the 17th minute

6/14/2006 9:17:33 AM

yup

6/14/2006 9:24:03 AM

Schevchenko will get 1.

2-1 Spain

6/14/2006 9:29:00 AM

now is Spain just really good or is the Ukrain just really bad?

6/14/2006 9:31:17 AM

Neither.

Spain isn't really this good, and Ukraine isn't really this bad.

6/14/2006 9:32:09 AM

Ukraine is playing really sloppy, I feel like I'm watching a high school team play

6/14/2006 9:33:26 AM

What the hell kind of a red card is that.. I didn't even think a foul should have been called.. yikes.

6/14/2006 10:03:57 AM