Australia 0 Italy 1

I felt it was a good call by the ref and I believe many here don’t watch soccer and comment out of ignorance. Neil made a late tackle, he knew the consequences, that interfered with the play. “Any player who impedes the the progress of an opponent by crossing directly in front of him or runnig between him and the ball or intervening so as to form an obstacle with the aim of delaying his advance, must be sactioned with an indirect free kick…” It is a shame when people comment when they have no knowledge of the rules and purposely deceive others to fuel the anger and ignorance. The rule was taken from the 2005 United States Soccer Federation which is in compliance to Regional, National and World competitions. For those who are new to the sport, it is a beautiful sport and sometimes there are mistakes but this is not one of them. For those of you attacking Italy, well jealousy comes in many forms - their form of soccer is fantastic thats why the majority of the all the players in the World Cup play in Italy and to insult a people because of a game that is the highest form of ignorance and shame on You. For those of you who truely love the sport enjoy!

Posted from  Canada

Zilkov,

You said it should have been an indirect free-kick, and I agree with you. BUT, an indirect free-kick in the penalty area cannot be given as a penalty. A penalty can only be given in the box as a result of a violation which results in a DIRECT free-kick only. If you don’t beleive me go to the FIFA website and read their rules.

Now I agree it was an indirect free-kick, but Grosso still made a meal of it and purposely dived. If he were a true sportsman he would have stayed on his feet, but instead he took the easy way out and took a dive.

Posted from  Australia

Zilkov,
It is you who is ignorant of the rules my man. Go to FIFA.com and read the rules, not some two-bit rule book from a USA amateur comp!

The referee made an error in awarding a penalty. It was obstruction at best, and as such should have resulted in a indirect free kick where the incident took place.

Come back to this blog when you really are an expert and stop preaching your OPINIONS. Unsubstantiated opionions only “deceive others to fuel the anger and ignorance” as you so gracefully put it!

bye, bye!

Posted from  Australia

It is a shame when people comment when they have no knowledge of the rules isn’t it Zilkov?

Posted from  Australia

totti sucks. italy sucks. simple as that.

Posted from  Australia

And Bronwyn, I’m sure your pretty good at sucking yourself!

Care to s*ck me off then?

Posted from  Australia

phoeey

youre the typical sorry british piece of trailer trash, you’re prolly poor, unemployed, ugly, fat, from an alcoholic background, don’t know personal hyigiene and probably you have been brought up in a shitty council house, like most people in the Uk, outside the inner London area where mostly foreigners live.

FORZA AZZURRI !

Posted from  Italy

I AM AN AUSSIE AND I MUST SAY THAT I AM ASHAMED TO CALL MY SELF AN AUSTRALIAN. WE ARE THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITES AND THE WORST POSSIBLE LOSERS ON THE PLANET. WE ARE ON THE WORLDS STAGE HERE AND WE ACT LIKE CHILDREN. IT WAS DEFINATELY A PENALTY, MY FIRST REACTION WAS THE SAME AS THE REFS. AFTER WATCHING THE PENALTY A FEW HUNDRED TIMES IN SLOW MOTION I STILL THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION! THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULD TAKE A PAGE OUT OF OUR BOOK WHEN IT COMES TO ONFIELD BEHAVIOUR, CRICKET: BOWLER BOWLS BALL ALONG THE GROUND SO NO RUNS CAN BE SCORED AGAINST LAST BALL OF THE MATCH, AUS WINS! RUGBY, NOT SURE OF THE CODE BUT A PLAYER WAS ACTUALLY STICKING HIS FINGER UP OTHER PLAYERS BUMS WHILE TACKLING THEM! THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED!

Posted from  Australia

i can only understand your sorrow.
it must hurt big time.
but hey, in 32 years you’ll have another chance at it!

Posted from  Italy

See what happened..? Italy cheated their way past Germany - gettings Torsten Frings tossed for defending his teammates who were being blindsided by Italy’s closest cousins - the Argentinians. Then keep bombarding the Best Player in the Final with racial slurs till he flips.. TRULY ITALIAN STYLE!!

Posted from  United States

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Posted from  Nigeria

hey, i need a full article of the Australia vs Italy game for a school thing and i know there were a few in the australian and courier mail but i can’t find them so if anyone knows where i can or has one can they post me it please
thx!!

Posted from  Australia

Just remember, socceroos may not have scored a goal against the Italian’s but the Italians could not score for a whole 90 minutes either and needed a shitty penalty shot, wrongly awarded to win over a team which has never been in the world cup for some 30 years. The Italian team are patting themselves on the back for a job well done? They just barely made it past. JUST. They should all taking turns at kicking theyre team mates arses because they certainly didnt play “joga bonito”. As for buffoon or boofhead or whatever you call that Italian goal keeper, I really could not stopped laughing when he carried on about how he “knew” australia would lose and that they just weren’t good enough to beat us. What a load of elephant shyte.

Posted from  Australia

ru all kidding…..did you not see the replay? ofcourse it was a penalty!

i know you are all upset but get real….dont make me come over there

Posted from  Canada

hey im a german fan in the USA and everyone here is protesting against Italy for cheating their way to their fourth title and people even know the mafia had something to do with this so u italians better watch out, u aint gettin lucky in 2010 cause guess what.. Germany is comin after ur Azzurri asses

Posted from  United States

ITALY CHEATED GERMANY WON THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS. Remember: when brazil won everyone talked about it for four years, but Italians, ur happiness wont last long in the hearts of soccer fans, also get ready for your club season, im sure its going to suck after the punishment of your top club teams hahaha

Posted from  United States

And if Italy was soo good, why the hell did they tie Italy and almost beat them. Doenst add up

Posted from  United States

All I see here is jealousy … instead you should be grateful to watch the best soccer blood to ever kick a soccer ball … EVER and yes im talking about the AZZURI … I love how the ozzies babble on … go back to swimming thats all your good at … the thorpedo??? Whos his boyfriend anyway???? hahahaha

Posted from  Canada

Seriously if Australia failed to score against such an apparently “weak Italy” with 10 players for a whole 90 minutes, it means that Australia really sucks donkey balls.
Imagine Australia-Germany semifinal, or Australia-France final. That would have sucked more donkey balls.

Posted from  Italy

hey azzuri losers check this site out maybe u could see something that will make things clear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cup_Teams_Ranked_by_Most_Medals

Posted from  United States

I just wish countries could get things right … All aussies are good at is swimming nothing more nothing less … Soccerroos??? Is that some cutesie term … I bet Ian thorpe and his boyfriend made that one up … What next Aussies you gonna come here to Canada and beat us in Hockey??? Eh? Hockeroos? hahaha

Posted from  Canada

why would we want to play gay hockey? fuck wit

Posted from  Australia

Hockey?
What the hell, we never speak of that crap here!
Canada didn’t even make it into the world cup, well if they did, we never saw them. Nobody ever speaks of hockey. pffttt Hockey you say. WTF!
Hell no, not here thanks.

Posted from  Australia

Unbelievable!

Australia didn’t have laf thwe chances or near shots of Italy. The
match is still downloadable on the web for those with poor memory! (so are the stats)

I checked out a dozen newspapaers on internet the next day (in different languages, neat huh?), and EVERYONE concurred that the penalty was due also to the absurd red card given previously to Materazzi.

How can you write this stuff and not mention that red card????

if you go to fifaworldcup.com you can still see the Italy goals. When do you expect Australia to be able to play like this???

Posted from  Italy

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