Gattuso: The French are Sore Losers
As if there weren’t enough intrigue heading into tomorrow’s Euro 2008 qualifier between France and Italy, Azzurri defender Gennaro Gattuso has added fuel to the fire. Gattuso offers his thoughts on what he thinks has been the moaning and whining coming out of France after his side defeated Les Bleus in the World Cup final.
“When we lost the Euro 2000 10 seconds from the end we didn’t go around moaning about it afterwards,” Gattuso told reporters at Italy’s training ground near Florence on Monday.“It’s true that we usually find it a bit hard to swallow defeats, but they (France) are a lot worse.
“At least on that score, Italy come runner-up to France,” added Gattuso, who has scored just one goal in 48 appearances for Italy.
Yes, Wednesday’s match should be a fun one for the whole family.
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By Donielle | September 5th, 2006 at 5:43 pm 
i agree that the french need to get over the fact that they lost and move on. zidane was rightfully sent off for what he did i dont understand why people are saying that materazzi should have been sent off. if u play the game u kno as well as anyone else that smart little remarks go all over the field so i dont think that the game suspension on materazzi was right. zidane should have sucked it up and not let what the man said get to him because im pretty sure that zidane said somethings during the game that were just as nasty if not worse.(i also think that the french were wrongly given the fist penalty kick and that is why the second tackle wasnt called and given to the french.)
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By idiots | September 5th, 2006 at 5:50 pm its not just a game u idiots, its the world cup where millions of people watch and watch their countries play, its a lifestyle not some game and say oh man we lost lets just have a party at zidanes house after we lost the final match wee!!! too many italian fanboys who dont understand anything
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By david klein | September 5th, 2006 at 5:51 pm Europeans as a whole are sore losers; plus they have horrible body odor.
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By rescorpione17 | September 5th, 2006 at 6:08 pm …i agree with david klein (who i reckon must be relative of the famous designer !!..) only what you define “odor” turns on many american women ! it is called Male Odor..wimp !
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By TheItalianStallion | September 5th, 2006 at 6:10 pm Its sad how people leave comments about the world cup final when they do not know ANYTHING about soccer (and im talking about most people that left a comment)..
first of all.. i dont care who played better, Italy’s the world champ because we scored more goals than they did..
Second.. there was no penalty on their first goal,
Third.. Materazzi should have smacked zidane back after he headbutted him.. he got a 2 game suspension anyway even though he didn’t do anything..
and, if you gotta suspend materazzi for what he did.. many many more players should have been suspended..
Third.. italian sports having a bad backround because of drugs, bets etc. (which every other country with a soccer league has the same problems)has nothing to do with Italy winning the world cup.. we won by beating everyone.. Period
And last.. every big soccer fan knows how FIFA and its president Blatter have always attacked italy (FYI..he wasnt even there to give us the cup)
The question remains “How could they nominate Zidane best player of the world cup?!”
Well.. no matter what anyone says.. ITALY IS THE WORLD CUP CHAMPION.. whether you people like it or not.. now get over it
Best wishes
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By james | September 5th, 2006 at 6:17 pm i agree wit the italianstallion
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By Jonathan Ekpenyong | September 5th, 2006 at 7:47 pm The Italians,world reknown for dishonesty and trickery, wanted to win the Cup at all cost. First, they fingered Germany’s best player and got him suspended for the semi-final game. Then they got away with potential penalties from a very biased referee, who even though he witnessed all the fouls the Italians heeped on Zidane, felt no qualms to penalize them..
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By 4 | September 5th, 2006 at 8:07 pm Can we please keep the conversation civil and discuss important football issues.
I would prefer to see all Four Golden Stars on top of the FIGC symbol. As Well I think the size of the stars should increase so as to FURTHER intimidate the opposing teams.
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By bruce | September 5th, 2006 at 10:09 pm So Lilian Thuram is of the opinion that France deserved to win the World Cup final.
“We should have won that final”.
“Really, the best team on the night didn’t win.”
It all depends on which side of the fence one was sitting, Thuram. I was one of those sitting on the opposite side to Thuram, and I think the worst team lost.
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By Claude | September 6th, 2006 at 12:20 am Bob, what does Zidane’s sister look like? Can you post a picture to see if she is worth a headbutt? After hearing what Materazzi said I am puzzled as to why Zidane melted down and why FIFA gave a two game suspension. Seems to me to have been an immature remark that a 12 year old would make. Why get all bend out of shape over it? Yes, I am an only child.
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By Gian Luca | September 6th, 2006 at 3:09 am Zidane doesn’t have a sister. It was all a mixup. He thought Materazzi was calling him a “sissy”.
Is this blog about Zidane and Materazzi. I think by now there is enough material for a separate website: “www.headbuttisbeautiful.com”
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By Gian Luca | September 6th, 2006 at 3:19 am You know, I did a little mental test and asked myself: “If Zidane and Materazzi had a job other than soccer player, and did what they did, how would their employer react?”
In other work situations, Zidane would lose his job and go to jail for a day or two.
Materazzi would lose his job.
…and we are paying these people millions of dollars, when the Mexican kids who make the soccer balls we play have deformed fingers from using needles all day long…
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By Marco | September 6th, 2006 at 7:10 am I think it is quite obvious now that what Materazzi said was of little value. Obviously at that point in the game, Italy were looking to take the game. They had the momentum the whole tournament, France in this world cup could NOT convert their opportunities (unless against spain). Lets face it, Italy not allowing any goals in this world cup were going to allow a ‘French’ goal in the last 10 minutes of the game? please!! Not even Germany could convert against them. The reason why people are saying france deserved it is simply because, they are either italian haters or dont understand the fact that Italy went to the distance with the Host country Germany while france was sleeping against portugal. Who lets face it should have gone out against Holland long before the semi’s.
I am also shocked no one is mentioning the fact that Italy played every game of this world cup (aside from the czechs) with 10 men. Francesco Totti was in absolutly NO form this world cup. In the finals he didnt even touch the ball. had they played gilardino in his place, they would have easily come out on top against france. EASILY! But hey us Italians arent argentina we dont want to gain bad karma. So we played a man down to keep the tourny close!!! Also. That was in no way a penalty. the score should have been 2 – 1 Italy.
Now about todays game. THis should be an interesting one. Italy are definantly off form and I am still skeptical of Donadoni’s tactics. I did not really enjoy his strategy against lithuania. TAKE INZAGHI OFF and De Rossi should never be picked. Either of them have done little to nothing for this national team. Luccarelli should have been picked for this team. Imagine Cassano and Luccarelli playing alongside eachother. Also For todays game Gilardino needs to be on.
The verdict is. If Italy can convert they will win. If they come out with holes in the midfield and Inzaghi france will take this one. To me it doesnt matter, the Azzurri will be back on form for their october games anyway!
By owen3 | September 6th, 2006 at 7:35 am Soccer Fan, are you even one, your comments are absolutely disgusting. To suggest that personal intimidation and abuse of one’s relatives might be reciprocated in order to win just proves how low modern football has degraded. Just cast a look at the Russian empire and you see how the ‘Winning at all costs’ has been taken to the literal extremes. By the way, are you a Chelski fan? Because your philosophy of winning shows no class whatsoever. i sincerely hope you were being sarcastic.
Silly immature stereotpyical comments by people like david klein dont help either.
As for the France-Italy issue, let’s just all sit back and enjoy the potential classic in Paris shall we? im a fan of Zidane’s myself but i admit his action was wrong and strongly condemn it. For those here who love to drag up the past while preaching ’sour grapes’ and all, what an irony. You accuse people of living in the past and being sore losers and yet you keep raising this issue which you, if you were a TRUE football fan, should have put to bed long ago. And if there’s something worse than a sore ungraceful loser, it’s a SORE UNGRACEFUL WINNER. French fans whining about it won’t change the record books that the 2006 World Cup went to Italy, but neither will Italian fans. And i seem to remember many of you screaming ‘conspiracy’ when the South Koreans put you out not too long ago. EVERYONE finds it hard to swallow defeats, especially in the biggest tournament of them all, the French, the Italians, the Brazilians and yes, even Mr Gattuso. Let’s get back to the football people.
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By owen3 | September 6th, 2006 at 7:38 am hm. For all the intrigue and hype and whatnot, im predicting a bore lifeless 0-0 draw here.
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By Muddia Beduddia | September 6th, 2006 at 7:40 am Does anyone know of a website that will stream the audio for this game in English? I thought maybe the BBC but have no other ideas.
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By Luca | September 6th, 2006 at 10:04 am Why everybody continue to speak in english??? We are the champion and now is time that everybody speak in Italian..
GRAZIE AZZURRI!!!
By Ed Placidi | September 6th, 2006 at 10:05 am Thank you Marco and TheItalianStallion for some down-to-earth, honest commentary. And you Lazaro, don’t you have anything better to do than spend your days writing unintelligible anti-Italian diatribes the length of a Master’s Degree dissertation? In any case, no one who reads this blog regularly pays attention to your dishonest and pathetic ranting.
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By Claude | September 6th, 2006 at 11:31 am Ed the only reason you liked Marco and TheItalienStallion’s comments is because they were 100% pro-Italy. Stallion thinks that Materazzi should have smacked Zidane and you think that’s brilliant thinking? The only problem you have with Lazaro is that he doesn’t like Italy. I thought his citing of the FIFA rules was a great post. We all remember the Korean player who got fired because he beat Italy in 2002. I don’t recall any Italien player getting canned after this World Cup. I guess most teams can lose gracefully and others like Italy and Argentina can’t. Lot of soccer fans don’t like the Italien style of play – fall down and roll in pain when barely touched and roll back into a defensive shell after taking a 1 goal lead. In that Germany-Italy game there were so many Italiens lying around the field it reminded me of a Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western. I hope for 2010 assuming they qualify that the Italien team takes acting lessons from Sophia Loren and stop behaving like a bunch of “girlie-men” on the field.
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By TheItalianStallion | September 6th, 2006 at 7:35 pm Hey Claude.. “I hope for 2010 assuming they qualify that the Italien team takes acting lessons from Sophia Loren and stop behaving like a bunch of “girlie-men” on the field.”
Guess what, and this goes for all those criticizing italy, those people you call “girlie-men” beat everyone’s ass.. and yet.. have you heard anything about FIGC complaining about materazzi’s scandalous suspension.. and every single person who knows what soccer really is could tell you how unfair that suspension is.. with the exception of course of FIFA and Blatter and the French.. Just admit it to yourself.. ITALY IS THE WORLD CHAMP.. theres nothin you can say or do thatd change that.. so GET OVER IT..
Thank You for your time
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By owen3 | September 6th, 2006 at 10:45 pm see what i mean about sore winners?
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By azzurro | September 7th, 2006 at 12:47 am LAST NEWS FROM FRANCE:
DOMENECH IS GOING TO SELECT PLAYERS FOR THE BLUES TEAM WITH THE RATIONALE THAT NONE OF THEM SHOULD HAVE A SISTER
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By Laurie | September 7th, 2006 at 8:28 am Here’s a video with pictures of Zidane’s sister, mom and wife. Tell me they don’t all look alike!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMWbl1cyF7U&mode=related&search=
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By azzurro | September 7th, 2006 at 8:45 am Materazzi’s wife is much much nicer and sexy
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By Amadio | July 13th, 2007 at 10:56 am If there is any anti-Italian crap
out there it is because of this.
We Italians are the Descendents of the Romans who conquered and Civilized europe. Being of Superior Stock, The Descendents
of the barbarians are jealous of us. Add to the fact that Italy is the most beautiful country in the world and it’s just logical
that the world is jealous of us. 4 world cups, How sweet it is. Thus Spoke Cesear
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