You’ve made your choice for who you think will win between France and Italy. Now it is time to offer your prediction for who you think will be the person that carries the winning team to victory in Berlin. Who do you think will be named Man of the Match?

These past few days have the hardest of the entire World Cup for me. It hardly seems fair that we should be forced to wait for the final to be played. It does give us a chance, however, to think back to past World Cup competitions and to remember past championship matches.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter is always good for starting a debate and today is no exception. The head honcho is beating one of his favorite drums, claiming that football and the World Cup need more goals. “The football isn’t that bad, but there aren’t enough goals – and when there are too few [...]

It doesn’t get much more dramatic than what we saw in Tuesday’s semifinal with Italy pulling out the victory in extra time, but perhaps the final can top it. If you look at the two potential matches, Italy vs. France or Italy vs. Portugal, which one do you think would produce the best final? [...]

If you are fan of one of the 28 teams no longer playing in the World Cup, you are faced with a tough decision. Do you adopt one of the four teams that are left or do you simply enjoy the action from a neutral point of view? Of the four teams that [...]

Some players had a lot of hype heading into the World Cup and their performance during the competition has gone a long way to justify it. Others were expected to lead their teams to glory but their play was less than spectacular and their teams are sitting at home right now.

And then there were four. We’ve worked our way down from 32 teams to just four, each a mere two wins away from lifting the World Cup trophy in Berlin on July 9. Some of you nailed your quarterfinals predictions from last week, while others were off the mark. The vast majority [...]

Sixty games down and only four more to go before we bring a close to the 2006 World Cup. The semifinal matchups are set with Germany and Italy slugging it out on July 4 in Dortmund, and Portugal and France on June 5 in Munich.

Before the World Cup began, most oddsmakers had Brazil, Germany, Argentina, England and Italy as the top picks to win it all. Indeed, each of those teams is still alive and just three wins away from lifting the trophy in Berlin on July 9.

The eight teams that are in the quarter-finals of this year’s World Cup bring a lot of history and tradition to the competition. They also have been involved in some of the more memorable games in World Cup history. All of this makes for some delicious potential match ups for the final.