Germany 0-2 Italy







Fix this Gianluigi!



Load of old Ballacks, Auf Wiedersehen!


Annoyingly Italy played really well, Cannavaro was excellent.

Heavy game,

best so far

newstyle..............NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo they will be too w***Sted, France will do it..............

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Tue 4 Jul 2006
Young South Africans play football near Cape Town airport, but crime and poverty will shock fans visiting South Africa in 2010 Picture: AP

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Has whistle been blown on South Africa's World Cup?
FRED BRIDGLAND IN JOHANNESBURG
AS THE World Cup in Germany draws to a close, it is being reported in South Africa that FIFA executives have made contingency plans to move the 2010 competition to Australia because of South Africa's high levels of violent crime, inadequate public transport, widespread AIDS infection and a general lack of readiness.

The reports, based on an interview with a member of South Africa's organising committee just back from Germany, coincide with confirmation that the country's prestigious World Cup transport project, a rapid-rail link from Johannesburg airport to the centre and Pretoria, will not be ready on time.









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The former South African president Nelson Mandela celebrated by holding the World Cup aloft in May 2004 when his country won the right to host the 2010 World Cup finals. But the report in the Rapport newspaper said FIFA was alarmed by the organising committee's plan for "tented towns" to relieve a lack of hotel accommodation.

Joop Demes, the managing director of the hotel investment arm of real estate group Pam Golding, said 600 new hotels would be needed, each with at least 100 rooms, to lodge the one million-plus fans expected to flood South Africa in July 2010.

Danny Jordaan, the chief executive officer of the local organising committee, spokesmen for the president, Thabo Mbeki, and the head of FIFA's South Africa office reacted with anger.

And Michael Palmer, the Australian head of FIFA's Johannesburg office, said: "That's absolutely untrue, 100 per cent. There's no contingency plan ... We absolutely deny it."

But Rapport recorded many expressions of alarm over South Africa's ability to stage such a major event.

"People wonder if we aren't going to embarrass ourselves in four years," said Mninawa Ntloko, the deputy sports editor of Business Day, the country's leading financial daily. "Many people out there are understandably anxious because we all know the kinds of stadiums we've got in this country. Only a handful are an acceptable standard."

Tony Leon, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition, said South Africa was "two years behind in its preparations, due to government sluggishness in processing all the legislation necessary".

Tony Twine, a leading independent econo-mist, warned that the South African organisers and government were adopting "a very casual" approach. He added: "I'm not sure we're going to cope with it."

Rapport quoted the anonymous member of the South African organising committee as saying FIFA officials are increasingly cynical about Danny Jordaan's assurances that everything is fine and ahead of schedule.

The confirmation by Murray & Roberts, South Africa's biggest construction company, that the £2 billion Gautrain project will not be ready for 2010 is only part of the evidence contradicting him.

The country's public transport system is generally in chaos, and there is no transport system at all in three of the centres where World Cup matches would be played - Nelspruit, Rustenburg and Polokwane.

To help South Africa cope, FIFA has agreed the original number of stadiums planned for the competition be reduced from 13 to ten in nine cities - Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Rustenburg.

This article: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=973552006



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Lets just hope South Africa will still be able to host the world cup for 2010.



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Best result yet. and an Intense game.

speghetti boys beat the deutch ****ers.

After watching this game it was very hard to feel sad about engerland being out of the tournament. What a beautiful game the italians and germansput out. This is the way the world cup should be throughout and england were undoubtedly very boring to watch. Theywere destroying the very name of what is joga bonito.The italians (and sometimes germans) held the balleven under pressure, had good link up play andgood attacking.Italy finally did what they do best, defend solid and creep in a last minute winner.

I'll bet on the italians to beat the french, they will still have the heartbreak of '98 amd 2000 on their hearts.

tobitrice wrote:
I agree that was the best game so far in the tournament. Everything a game should have, excitement, skill, full of drama and true entertainment. Couldn't take your eyes away for a second.

Isn't that typical of the Italians though, just when they needed a goal, it always come. Those goals were so unexpected, but what goals. They truly deserved to win.

I was up late and I watched the replay, that was even better. LOL

Le Merde.