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Italy has won its fourth World Cup today, during a 1-1 game that went into penalty kicks (the most terrible way to end any major game). We knew the game was over when the neighborhood went crazy - cheering, honking horns, just enjoying the win on a beautiful summer's day. While the Italians should rightly celebrate, the big question will be what the eff was Zinedine Zidane thinking when he got red carded in the final minutes?
Here's the final match report. Now, we can go back to the Project Runway Season One marathon on Bravo.
And if you went to a World Cup watching party, we hope you had a drink for us!
Top photograph of Fabio Cannavaro with the tropy by Andrew Medichini/AP; bottom photograph of New York City World Cup watchers at Felix in Soho by Louis Lanzano/AP
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Gostei de ver que em meio a torcidas novaiorquinas, há, ali, bandeiras brasileiras penduradas e a mostra.
Legal mesmo!
OK - I was in Little Italy when Italy won the whole shebang, and the whole place went ape-shit, and all of the sudden it was if all of the Italians I never see in the city (and I mean real Italians - not the Soprano/Minucci you usually see visiting from Staten Island and Jersey) came out of the woodwork.
It was chaos down there! People were clmbing fire escapes and throwing soccer balls, flags, clothes, furniture, and the few cops I saw were literally hiding!
Of all of the stupid bullshit that Gothamist covers, I can't believe there were no pictures or reports of this insanity.
Craziness!!
By the way, you misspelled (surprise) Zinedine.
It's 10pm and they're still going nuts in Little Italy.
They showed a mini riot on the news.
Broken windows from soccer fans.
Never thought I'd see that in NYC.
Soccer is so stupid
They should have kept playing until someone scores. Even if it takes another 5 hours to do.
Having a shoutout is like having a MLB game end in the 12th inning and the game being determine by home runs
OK, I've finally seen the highlights, if you can call it that.
I can't believe the whole game was decided on these things called penalty kicks??????
You play till you score not on stupid penalty kicks.
Guess there's a reason why Europe has siestas.
Holy Shit!!! I can't believe Zidane did that! That's the equivalent of Michael Jordan in game 7 of the NBA Finals against Utah headbutting lameass Bryon Russell with the game tied and 1 minute to go. Un-freak-en-believable!!!!! What the hell did that Italian guy say to Zidane? He probably said "Your French pastry tastes like ass"
i really wonder what was said to zidane to cause the headbutt. to me, that was the deciding moment of the game. not entirely his fault that the french didn't take advantage of what looked like a tired italian team though.
Anyone notice how many non-sports fans who would otherwise never be caught dead in a sports bar are all over the World Cup? Bizzaro World.
Apparently there was a giant screen set up on Spring near Bowery and it was operating for at least part of the game. But it was shut down when I biked by there during the 2nd half, although the street was still closed to vehicular traffic.
They were right when they said that Italians do it best- 2006 world cup champs baby !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Marco Materazzi allegedly called Zinedine Zidane (a.k.a. "Zizou") a "dirty terrorist." [FYI, Zizou is born of Algerian immigrants.]
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T171430Z_01_L10426945_RTRIDST_0_SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE-MATERAZZI.XML
Materazzi denies it: "It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means."
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T171430Z_01_L10426945_RTRIDST_0_SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE-MATERAZZI.XML
Marco Materazzi allegedly called Zinedine Zidane (a.k.a. "Zizou") a "dirty terrorist." [FYI, Zizou is born of Algerian immigrants.]
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T171430Z_01_L10426945_RTRIDST_0_SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE-MATERAZZI.XML
Materazzi denies it: "It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means."
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldFootballNews&storyID=2006-07-10T171430Z_01_L10426945_RTRIDST_0_SOCCER-WORLD-FRANCE-ZIDANE-MATERAZZI.XML
that was a great day for all italians and this is a comment in regards to the catzo!!! who made the comment before and (I mean real Italians - not the Soprano/Minucci you usually see visiting from Staten Island and Jersey) came out of the woodwork) being italian is not a matter of simply being in italy it is a matter of growing up with italian bloodlines and heritage and culture weather it be in sydney australia, toronto, new jersey, brooklyn, or whereever italians are italians and it is a great day for every italian, i am from italy and it was great to see italian americans celebrating i feel a sense of sympathy for some of them because of ignorant people who label them as non cultured, soprano style people many of the italian americans i know grew up with identical traditions as myself so the next time you feel like you need to degrade people check your own insecurity at the door and do you say the same for puerto rican americans who celebrate the puerto rican day parade in masses it seems to me that who ever you are should worry about yourself and your own culture and interests and simply celebrate or congragulate the italians domestic or foreign.