natural-born-stonesfan Wrote:
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> maumau, we are not so far away from each other.
> your examples are o.k., I agree. And I already
> admitted that Germany many many years played
> really ugly football (seen from technical and
> offense-playing point of view), but they made
> their way thru at least to the quarter finals and
> more. I think it is pretty similar with the
> italiens this time. In my opinion, they did only
> one good / very good game (they were a little
> better than germany, yeap - Germans tired cause of
> extra time against argentina) and as the germans
> in 2002 they had good luck getting finals with
> "easy" teams like australia and ukraine.
>
> Well, your team has done it and once more
> congratulations ! I am not a bad looser, I am an
> objective and great football fan.
ok natural born stonesfan, infact i dont want to fight a war here alone
I understand, everyone does. Even Gattuso last night said it straight: "Sometimes we're not beautiful to see but we're tough".
What I don't understand is stereotype and prejudice, that's all.
To tell how I lived the game yesterday. When Zidane was shown the red card and we saw what he had done I screamed: "Oh no! Why did you do that?" He was frightening for us to have him in the game but is also so great to see him play and I do wanted him in until the end. I was not happy but disappointed and still i thought he "objectively" deserve that.
All I want to say is that these feelings and sportsmanship in general are more common here than sterotypes on Italians suggest.