Cruyff Praises Socceroos

July 4th, 2006 | By: Matt | 46 Comments »

Over on the Dutch blog I noticed an article written by Johan Cruyff on his official site.
Johan applauds the Aussie mentality and spirit at the World Cup and believes some of the bigger teams lacked this, in particular Brazil.



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Username By italian supporter. | July 6th, 2006 at 1:29 am
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marco,
i can digest it, if you read my comments you will see that i’ve congratulated your team. i think italy played great. why dont YOU digest it and go celebrate like a normal person. i also bet you wouldnt call me a ’stupid ideot’ (i assume you meant ‘idiot’) to my face - that in itself would render you dead three times before you hit the ground (in a matter of speaking) - however you are entitled to your opinion, no matter how un-informed you appear to be. Knowing a lot about a sport does not make you intelligent persae, it simply makes you ’savvy’.

Funnily enough I also agree with everything Troy said in his last comment…so marco you are in consorts with me, me being an ‘ideot’.

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Username By BOB | July 6th, 2006 at 1:34 am
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that previous comment was from me, using my friends (italian supporter.) computer and forgot to change the NAME.

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Username By Bigone | July 6th, 2006 at 1:37 am
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Marco,

You are only 10 aren’t you?

Otherwise you must be a pretty stupid adult, as you can’t spell, and you are making a goose of yourself with every post you make.

You are an embarrassment to the Italian community and to your country!

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Username By Julia | July 6th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
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@ Victoria

You’re cleary right in over 123 years of playing what do you call it foomball? we’ve learnt nothing about the game. How silly of us to think diving is an unsportsman like thing to do.

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Username By Victoria | July 6th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
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@Julia

I am sorry Julia. I understand your point of view but I still don’t think that Grosso is a diver. But I also can understand how difficult is to lose at the last minute by a penalty. I wish you the best !

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Username By Julia | July 6th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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@ Victoria

We can agree to disagree on Grosso but good luck to you in the finals.

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Username By snot face | July 7th, 2006 at 8:55 am
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the socceroos rule they could have won the cup if it wasn’t for that ref

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Username By Jesse Kewell | July 10th, 2006 at 3:08 am
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NO WAY WAS THAT A PENALTY FROM LUCAS NEIL IN THE AUST vs ITALY GAME!!!! even the Italians agreed! i was talking 2 my dad about it (Harry Kewell)he said he was distraught and no way a penalty. As he was talking the italians they agreed but the italians stated ‘this stuff happens’.

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Username By Guttuso | July 10th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
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i love cows

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Username By chair heel high shoes | July 16th, 2006 at 4:37 am
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chair heel high shoes

Well … again a nice post .

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Username By james | July 24th, 2006 at 6:25 am
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OMG! give me a break. Italy are the best! get over yourselves italy fans, you only reached the final because of the 2 worst kinds of cheating there is, diving: Grosso(and plz, dont try and say he didn’t. Stevie Wonder would see that dive) and the worst officiating i’ve ever seen. Enormously biased decisions on fouls, eg. the Brazil game 23 to 9. Yes some dicisions went our way, tim cahill against japan, but this world cup proved once again you cant rely on the “rules” applying to both teams and that the little country cant get the decision against the bigger one. We should’ve won the Italy game cuz of their red card and 3 subs. why hiddink didnt use some subs, apart from aloisi, is behond me. but never proper, never gain, we;ve gained world wide aclaim as a good footballing nation who was robbed.

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Username By bozo the clown | July 25th, 2006 at 7:28 am
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huh?

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Username By pissed off | July 25th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
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Grosso is a fucking cheat

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Username By joel | August 15th, 2006 at 4:14 am
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hey italy get ova urself u may have won but. if u grosso didnt slep with the reff socceroos might of had a chance. Well done u won the wc but every true aussie knows only grosso is a cheatin scum. i think james explained it very well australia is a great sporting nation but was robbed.

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Username By duff11 | August 15th, 2006 at 4:30 am
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australia…we was robbed.

zidane finally gave those wogs wat was coming to them. Allez les bleus! The team who beat real teams on their way to the final. Spain. Brazil. Portugal.

Italy beats Australia, Ukraine and Germany. 2 rookies and a team lacking brilliance!

And wat kind of a dikhead sucks his thumb for a celebration! Probably practicing for other things…

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Username By antonio | August 17th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
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duff you stupid moron .. if france was so good why did they not win .. and italy got a gol dissalowed agains them and the penalty was not a penalty … also if u wernt so dumb you would know that he sucked his thimb because he dedicated the goal to his now son who was born not long befor he scored the goal .. dumb moron

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Username By joel | August 23rd, 2006 at 11:16 am
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as a matter of fact zz headbutted 1 of the italians becaz he was givin them wat they deserved like paybak 4 wat they did 2 us aussies we beat u iti’s n e day antonio so y dnt u shut up nd suck ur thumb as well!!!!!

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Username By Drummer Dave | August 23rd, 2006 at 11:56 pm
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If you want to blame anyone for Australia losing out in the World Cup, blame the ref. There were many decisions that didn’t go Australias way during the game, including a goal, which if counted would have changed the game entirely, though perhaps not the final result.

IF Grosso took a dive, the ref should have carded him, but the refs were making calls in the favour of the regular cup teams during the whole cup, not just against Australia.

So Australia, if you wanna whinge like pom about anything, whinge about the ref bias during the cup against the not-so-frequently-appearing-in-the-world-cup teams.

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Username By 4 | August 24th, 2006 at 12:19 am
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Drummer Dave, are you serious? You can’t be.

If I recall during the game Materazzi was unfairly redcarded. Even though Italy was undermanned they were never in danger of loosing the game.

Was that a penaly against Neill …..YES YES and YES….watch the video replay, the ref was right there. It wasn’t a call that could have gone either way It was a penalty.

Big clubs get all the calls? Do you remember World Cup 2002? The brutal call made against Spain and Italy by referees who I wouldn’t want at a kids game.

Australia had a great WC and leave it at that. They are a good developing team but are not in the class of Europes and S. America’s elite clubs.

Other than that how’s the weather there?

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Username By joel | August 24th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
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i get wat u mean drummer dave and 4 but australia will be appearing in manyy more world cups for years to come so u betta watch out caz we are a gud nation becoming great at football. The weather is hot over here wat about over there. If the referees cant make the right decisions in future games they should get someone who actually knows what they are doing like that reff that looked lika an alien cannot remember his name but if u watched football games you wuld remember him. they should get some more reffs like him thats all 4 now gudbye.

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Username By Caldararu | September 6th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
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what do you have fucking glaucoma there was no way it was a penalty grosso fell like a little baby girl

cheating is something italians cannot help, just look at the state of the serie a right now. its just sad to see that an entire country is run by the mobs.

and to all you italians from australia who seem to have something against the socceroos - pull your head out of your ass and take some pride in the place you live

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Username By socceroos fan | September 8th, 2006 at 10:22 am
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thats wat i fuckin reckon pull ur fuckin head out of ur asses u didnt deserve 2 be the world champions this year as a matter of fact i think use r shit. pure luck and cheating match fixing is the only way use wog basterds got 2 win the championship now take it and shove it up ur asses and i hope u all go 2 hell especially grosso fuckin wanka!!!!!!

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Username By Issa | October 5th, 2006 at 6:07 am
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Okay Socceroos Fan that comment was completly unessasary, I am an Italian Australian although i was born here italy runs through my veins im proud to be both Australian and Italian however in this situation i have to say that they did deserve to win the honour of being world champions as they are clearly, they did not cheat their way there nor did they win it on pure luck i love the socceroos however when it came to playing against italy all i can say is may the best team win i went for both teams and could barely even watch the game as i could see both points of veiw and would support which ever team that went through regardless and i would also like to point out that it was hard for us ‘italian australians’ to just drop all our cultural identity which we have shared with the rest of our country Australia as for the past 30 odd years we have supported italy in the world cup and Australia has not been in it for that long even Marco Bresciano a socceroo himself supported italy in previous world cups another thing i don’t appreciate being called a wog, and next time u sit down to enjoy pizza just think about where it came from. As for the next four years complain all you want but the azzurri will still be the champions of the world.

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Username By Cris | November 3rd, 2006 at 7:18 am
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Such big words Socceroos Fan… I hate to point out that the majority of Socceroos are “wogs” just to make u aware

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Username By buck naked | November 3rd, 2006 at 8:39 am
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Sorry to tell you but Australia has no depth or game plan. Passing the ball around aimlessly and hoping for the best isn’t the best course of action. Croatia should have advanced out of that group, they are the better team hands down. Italy played aweful in that game and Australia couldn’t put them away. The Ukraine would have destroyed you anyway and than Germany would have been in yet another WC final…boring.

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