Geeez, what a way to finish off your career.

Congrats to Italy! I was cheering for France, but Italy played a stellar game -- a defense that was fuckin' incredible.

Wait--people actually care about this?

Only over a billion people in the world...small crowd, I know.

I thought France played the more inspired game, from the last 50 minutes that I saw. Yippee, penalty kicks.

That part does suck.

they did indeed. italy seemed tired out after the first hour.

good riddance Zidane. nice move to finish off your career jackass.

And The Seahawks were a "better team" than Pittsburgh last year

Dirty Wops 1, everyone else, NOTHING!

so what'd this zidane guy do?

Nailed a defender in the chest with a headbut.

As bad of a move as it was, I'm still curious to hear what Materazzi said to him to make him do it.

but Pittsburgh didn't win in a post overtime field goal competition.

i was rooting for Italy, but they got outplayed for most of the game.

Zidane probably won't walk away now. Or perhaps he'll get some deal to play in LA or NY.

decent game, i thought. glad zidane got a red. i love the guy, but he definitely deserved it. the refs did a very good job in this game, which is nice to see.

The Seahawks were a better team than Pittsburg? Ummm.... that's hard to support.

Clearly international football, with so few scores, going to penalty kicks, leads to "luck" playing a bigger part in determining outcomes that American football. France seemed the better team for most of the match.

Actually, that wouldn't be bad. Bring him to MLS. Fucker can still ball.

As well, when I heard Juventus will be broken up, if the club gets demoted to Serie C, and that the club's big contracts will be nullified, I thought -- bring some of those WOP DIRTBAGS to MLS. Why let Real and Man U and Chelski have all the fun?

It's like folks who say Manning is better than Brady...SCOREBOARD! SCOREBOARD!

(Sorry, nothing like a sport I don't care about to bring about pangs of pride at having EYE-talian Heritage

Hey! What if UGa were to qualify for the men's or women's soccer championship? I bet you'd be on that, then, with your talk of "Georgia will not lose 'til 2042"... Homer!

The seahwaks were better. (fuck your eye-roll)

that was a great headbutt

both countries suck

the scoreboard - scoreboard was the same after regulation.
then they played some random arbitrary game to decide the winnner.

more like shame on YOU

Is my brain just a bit muddled or has Zidane done something like this before in a high profile game?

Either way, way to be remembered

yeah, he's been known throw a temper tantrum (and a headbutt) or two on the rare occasion (he's done a headbutt/stamp in serie A i think)

although usually he's one of the quietest/least cynical players around, and prbly one of the most respected (and not just for his skill)

obviously this one was unprecedented given the context/consequences, but i am not saying materratzzi may not have deserved it either