Le Coup de Boule: the Rasputin of Violent Bon Mots

just to clarify:

Pasta = Spaghetti same thing

as we said prior to the match with Germany and this is valid for France as well now:

NO PIZZA NO PARTY

OK pls do not eat pizza or pasta (spaghetti) this food is just for us (italians) eat escargots (bleah!!!) and baguette (double-bleah!!!).
LOL x LOL

Posted from  United States

just to clarify:

Pasta = Spaghetti same thing

as we said prior to the match with Germany and this is valid for France as well now:

NO PIZZA NO PARTY

OK pls do not eat pizza or pasta (spaghetti) this food is just for us (italians) eat escargots (bleah!!!) and baguette (double-bleah!!!).
LOL x LOL

Posted from  United States

Love it!! Great how the French are able to have a sense of humor about what happened.

Posted from  United States

Colman……with their past and looking at their future the French better have a good sense of humour.

Posted from  Canada

Well,

Zidane, much more than a french, Much more than a magician, much more than a brazilian…

Zidane a Master.

Thank you Zizou for Everything that You gave to the Soccer’s world.
Thank you for your generosity, thank you for your strenght. People who know you and who you are will not remenber the way you left the field, people will not.

Posted from  United States

“Colman……with their past and looking at their future the French better have a good sense of humour. ”

Let me guess, you’re Italian and hate the French, right? (And by the way, the Italian team is almost just as old as the French team, Cannaravaro’s got only a few years left to him).

“People who know you and who you are will not remenber the way you left the field, people will not. ”

Exactly. You can CHOOSE to remember Zidane the way you wish. I choose to remember the man who brought art and beauty to the game throughout his career.

Posted from  United States

“People who know you and who you are will not remenber the way you left the field, people will not. ”

I disagree, the first thing me and my two friends will remember is cowardly assault and the walk of shame off the field.

PS. French sense of humour? That’s an oxymoron.

Posted from  Canada

It’s an interesting question. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when someone mentions Zidane.

I have studied psychology and believe that most people will have that image of how he left the world cup game. The Headbutt, Red Card and the walking off the field. That will be instant (reflex) thought and memeory of him.

Now the football fans will no doubt remember the great talent he was, but not before remembering his exit in the world cup. Thats just just how the human psyche works.

Will this change over the course of 20 years? Possibly but unlikely. That’s what makes the way he left the game so tragic.

Posted from  Canada

Good Ridance ZZ…and I’m glad Italy won. The soccer Gods are happy once again.

The trophy is were it was meant to be Rome…the eternal city. Italians have shown the world how to dress, what to drive how to eat what to read ect….and now once again have shown the world how to play soccer.

Cant wait to get back there. Forza Forza Forza Forza Italia

Posted from  Canada

AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhaa in yout face italy … ZINEDINE ZIDANE did a great job … and he is the best of the best nobody can replace HIM … and yeah pasta and spegetti is the same thing hahahahhahahaha IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted from  Sweden

impartial, you’re not very impartial.

And anyone who says good riddance to zidane is no real football fan, they’re just ignorant about the game and are in love with their italianness.

Self-obsession and graceless winners, thy name is italy.

Seems italians loved zidane just fine when he was with juventus. Lippi has always loved him, and all the italian players on juventus loved him. I don’t know why italians now hate him so much — his argument was with materazzi, not italy. But what can one expect from a bunch of ungracious boorish clods?

If you love the game, and you’re not interested in all the nationalistic “my team’s better than yours just because of where I’m from!” crap, then you can only mourn zidane’s departure from the game, and appreciate his genius. There’s no one around today that can bring such gifts to the pitch. Zidane rarely fouled opposing players, he never simulated injury, almost never dived and inspired audiences to love the game even more than they already did.

I’m neither italian nor french, I’m from spain. France beat the crap out of us spaniards. It hurt — but it was a joy to watch the french style of open, positive football - it had grace and elegance and form.

Zidane and his team brought magic and art to the pitch. Nobody ever accused italians of bringing any grace or art to the game.

Oh, and to the poster called “impartial” — sorry but your plodding and pretentious “analysis” is crap. Today every single time you read about Maradona, in every article that mentions him, there’s ALWAYS a reference to the infamous “hand of god” and then the drug addiction. That doesn’t seem to have diminished his reputation as a football god, has it?

And before anyone screeches “zidane’s no maradona” — that was the same thing people said in the 80s about maradona — “maradona is no pele!”

The coarse, crude, slimy, vicious, negative, boring, graceless anti-football italians won this world cup. They can be quite efficient and effective once they decide to discipline themselves (which takes a long time for them to figure out how to do, witness their game against the US).

But they bring nothing positive to the game. Controversey constantly follows them. So many of their games end up in bitterness, resentment, anger - as happened in at least 3 games they had in Germany. It’s no accident that Zidane lost his control against italy - the team that will try thing, no matter how low, to win.

In their game against germany that vaunted tough defender cannavaro simulated injury dramatically, stopped play for several minutes, got stretchers to take him off the pitch, a minute later he was just fine, no problem. Last Saturday I saw him do it again at the Real Madrid-RSL match, a friendly where no trophies were on the line. He suddenly stopped play by dramatically lying down on the pitch staring up at the sky, feigning injury. A bunch of medicos went over to him, checked out this great defending italian pussy, nothing was wrong, and play resumed. He’s either a wimp or cheat.

And he’s wearing zidane’s old #5 yet. zidane never ever did this - he never rolled around the ground grimacing in pain, he was constantly fouled but almost always he would try to stay up or when he fell, he’d get right back up.

I lost count how many times I saw italian players roll around the ground in pain in this tournament. Zidane was kicked, fouled, brutalized and insulted throughout the final match. The italians pulled out all the stops to get him. Well they succeeded. He cracked, they won.

So why the hell are they so angry and hateful about it?

Posted from  United States

beautiful analysis of the game lazaro! the legacy of zidane will live on, regardles of his exit…

Everyone knows a true man now wears the number 5 for Real Madrid. Dignity and honour have been restored, Grazie Cannavaro.

what do you mean a true man wears the number 5 now? you don’t consider zidane a man? how can you be sooo …jesus christ…
his status as a football legend cannot be matched by many nowadays, his big heart is seen through so many charity works he did, not to mention his devotion to his family that is so rare among celebrities. can you say all these about cannavaro?
zizou is the TRUEST of man.

Dana, great post, but john’s just another one of these know-nothing “fans” who knows nothing of zizou nor football — he’s just fixated on his wonderful italianness and sees everything from that prism. He’s incapable of independent judgment outside that little self-involved world of his. To him, zidane is the devil incarnate.

And Zidane has a zillion times more class than anyone on the italian squad ever will.

Posted from  United States

@lazaro….you responded to my post be saying….an I quote

“Oh, and to the poster called “impartial” — sorry but your plodding and pretentious “analysis” is crap. Today every single time you read about Maradona, in every article that mentions him, there’s ALWAYS a reference to the infamous “hand of god” and then the drug addiction.That doesn’t seem to have diminished his reputation as a football god, has it?”

Thank you for reinforcing my point about Zidane. That is exactly what I said (know) will happen to Zidane. What did I say ……exactly this

“The Headbutt, Red Card and the walking off the field. That will be instant (reflex) thought and memeory of him.
Now the football fans will no doubt remember the great talent he was, but not before remembering his exit in the world cup. Thats just just how the human psyche works.”

Your hatred of Italians is very unhealthy and you should talk to someone about it.

Sorry about Spain and their perennial under achievements in International Play.

@dana……..yes i can say all that about Canavarro, so can anyone with access to a search engine.

@lazaro….blah blah…I forgot more about football than you will ever know. Keep your Zidane fetish / love affair to yourself. Write him private letters an forward them to FFF.

@impartial….thanks for your great post blasting lazaro out of the water. He just types but doesn’t think.

regards
john

nice john an impartial, lazaro can name players and dates but has no understanding of football.

good for you both for straightening him out. It was long overdue.

Allez

DRYYYYY Italian dude got the headbutt in his stomach!! THANK YOU Zidane man u totally taught them “italian” (blah-blah-YUCK) a lessan they will never forget!!! that “France rocks, Brazil rocks, England rocks, and I Zidane rock….and yea Italy stinks”

sara thats right ITALY SUCKS!!! and john ur dumb ITALY SUCKS!!!