The shortlist for this year’s Golden Ball recepient is out…and here they are in no particular order:
Fabio Cannavaro (Italy)

Maniche (Portugal)

Michael Ballack (Germany)

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After seeing the countless acrobatic dives Ronaldo had in the game against France..do you now hate Ronaldo?

I don’t ‘HATE’ the guy..but i’m irritated…why does he need to dive for goodness sake!!!

The Rooney Red Card incident:

If you want more Ronaldo story = I Hate Ronaldo
No chance of him going back to Man Utd eh?
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France have defied all odds to set up a final date in Berlin against a resurgent Italy.

Newspapers all over France were in praise of their heroes,especially Zidane who scored the winning goal via a penalty.
This must have evoked memories for the french,memories of 8 years ago when they succesfully won the World Cup.

Many,including me,never ever [...]

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Oh my..just take a look at the “Who will win the world cup” poll on the right.
Nobody,well very few at least believed that France would win it…and here we are today presented with a France v.s Italy Final.
Amazing!
more comments to follow later today
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Portugal have waited 40 long years to get to this stage again,the last time they were in a semi final in the world cup was in 1966 with the great Eusebio in their team,today they can boast of Figo,Deco,Ronaldo and more.

Luis Figo v Zinedine Zidane: Friends away from the pitch, but adversaries on [...]

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The curse of penalties has come back to haunt England yet again.
It was barely a watchable game from the beginning except maybe for the heroics of Owen Hargreaves who deservedly received the Man Of The Match award,for it was he…the only in the England camp that played well and actually scored a penalty!.
England pretty much [...]

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Well it’s game 3 & 4 tonight.
What a game it was last night! as Germany broke Argentinian hearts and Italy stormed through with an easy peasy 3-0 win.
Tonight the perenial underdogs Portugal take on the ‘boring’ England while there’s a repeat of sorts of the 1998 finals as Brazil take on France.
Game 3

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It is confirmed now,Manchester United’s portugese star wants to leave Old Trafford and link up
with the likes of Robinho,Ronaldo,Roberto Carlos and Beckham.
How confusing it is to have 2 Ronaldo’s in one team?
Ronaldo said ‘I have told my agent I am prepared to leave. I want to do it in the best manner possible. [...]

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