The Italy hate is balanced by the italy fans, I live in an 80% italian place, it's crazy.

o hai gaiz.




Vive España!

Its a shame that match had to be decided by penalties a real shame I much would have preferred a better match with less fouls and more actual goals. But I cant complain too much I got the result I wanted.

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It was a pretty bad game, though Spain was better in all fields, they deserved to win in the end.

Italy's defense was real solid today, and that's something I'm very impressed with. Their defense has been shaky all through the tournament with the absence of Cannavaro, but today, they did real well and prevented the offensive Spanish team. I'm real proud of Chiellini too. At first, I thought he was useless since he hadn't done much in the past 3 games, but today, man, he took it to a whole new level!!

But you know, it's a loss that I can be most happy with, as I said earlier. Not conceding a single goal and only losing in penalties to Casillas. It's like the epitome of loss minimization.

I still want a Casillas jersey..

And Casillas will lead Spain to win the Euro 2008!

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Casillas made some amazing saves that game.

Italy's defense was pretty tight, but I have noticed they usually play a rather defensive game.

They try to bring the ball out of their zone, then pass it up to 3 forwards to score.


Whereas Spain tried bringing up a lot more players to score, unfortunately, they weren't shooting enough.

The Turkey-Croatia game was fucking crazy, anyone watch that?

I love how everything that's branded "go Sweden!" etc with special blue and yellow designs is now silently being pulled and replaced with standard packaging...

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Yeah, Turkey x Croatia, 120 minutes of bringing the ball up and down, and then a shitty penalty.

Turkey is so bad, this game is going to be a massacre. But I'm pulling for them.

I am totally rooting for......I have no idea. I like soccer, I do, Im sorry, football....thing is, there is very little coverage of it here where I live, so its tough to ever get into it in the first place.

That said if I was rooting for a team it would be whichever team is the biggest underdog...sounds like greenland, or luxemburg to me lol.

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Oh man. Today was the first day without soccer. I don't know how I can live anymore..

For the semis, I'm rooting for Turkey and Spain, and Spain to crush Turkey and win it all in the final.

Did you know Turkey has 4 players suspended from bookings, and ~4-5 players injured? If the injured players can't play (1 is ruled out for sure, 2 might be able to make, a 4th not as likely, dunno about the 5th), then Turkey will only have a healthy 14-15 man squad in taking on Germany.. Not good at all..

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Germany, in comparison to Turkey seemed to always be the better team, I don't know if Turkey could have taken them on either way.


http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/ This is helpful ^^

Oh man. I can't believe Turkey lost today. I really thought they had it after they scored the first goal, and once again when they equalized it (somehow, in the abyss).

It was an interesting game. The damn feed kept getting dropped. It was bad when it was 1-1, then the feed dropped, then when it came back on, it was 2-2, and then it dropped again, only to come back up when Germany scored their 3rd goal before dropping again.

Go Casillas and Spain!! Destroy Russia! The game is in Austria, so there can't be no extremely accurate lightning!

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Yeah I missed it all until the third goal and it stopped.

Haha that game was sick! Just shows Russia was a little bit overrated.

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I know I'm a few weeks off from this thread, but I've watched a lot of soccer this month. Crap, Romania was out. I watched all Romania matches, and the best one was Italy, despite Mutu's missed PK. I still can't believe Russia beat the Dutch. Italy choked in PK's, and Turkey's finally out of the tournament. Wow, I've watched a lil' too much of soccer. I'll wait for the championship.

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Today was a good game. I was a little worried at first, because I knew Russia had severely changed their strategies since their opener, and it seemed to pay off in the first half, especially with Villa out. But I guess this new strategy wasn't enough to avoid another 3goal loss by Spain..

Casillas barely did anything today. Except speak about ending discrimination. He's the real winner of the match.

Spain for the Euro 2008 Champions!!

In Italy news, Donadoni is gone, and Lippi is back. I believe that if we keep the same team we have now, and not lose anyone to injuries or international retirement (Cannavaro..), Italy will have one last real strong run for the championship in South Africa 2010, especially now being managed by the guy who brought them there two years ago.

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well done Spain. Someone told me that the last time they won any silverware was 44 years ago. That's a loooooooong time.

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I'm pretty happy that Spain won against Germany. Well done, especially for 44 years without a silverware.

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Haha. I'm really glad Spain won. It was awesome to see Iker Casillas lift that trophy for Spain. It's great that he captained the national team to win it all, while giving an amazing performance himself, only conceding 2 goals in 5 games.

I still think Cannavaro is a better captain though..

At least it kinda looks good for Italy. They lost to the eventual Euro champions, and they only lost because of penalty kicks. Italy probably gave Spain the toughest challenge of the Euro because the game was practically deadlocked the entire way through with such superior defense on both sides. I would say Germany probably was a harder game for them considering that Germany was such an offensive force, and they constantly pressed on with offense.

But, I'm overall satisfied with the outcome. And, it's also cool because Germany lost! Haha.

Man, now there's NO soccer.. I guess I should start following up on the Chicago Fire, until the Confederations Cup next year. That and also, I bought the UEFA Euro 2008 for PS3. May the game live on!

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There'll be some football at the Olympics too, don't forget. The teams look kinda cheesy I guess, but it's better than nothing.