Sunday, June 18, 2006

"France Surrenders Lead"

Please, I am hoping one of the English 'papers' er tabloids will put this as the headline of tomorrows paper.
For those of you not watching EVERY game of the World Cup on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC in HD (jealous of the HD part) to give you a quick recap, the French absolutely dominated the run of play versus South Korea. But in the 80th minute the Koreans scored the equalizer and the game ended 1-1. France had at least 10 scoring opportunities, while Korea had maybe two.
The only sad thing about this result is Zinedine Zidane, France's retiring captain, got his second yellow card of the tourney on a horrible call. That means he misses the France Togo game and if France does not advance then this was his last game as a professional. Too bad, I don't like the French but I do love the way Z Z played. Even today he gave a ball to Henry that should have been the second goal for France, but Henry choked. It would be great if Z Z decides to 'unretire' and come to the MLS for big bucks. I have seen him twice in person, once for France and once for Real Madrid, and it was a treat.

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