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Viva Italia!

By Jed Babbin on 7.9.06 @ 8:39PM

That headline, being so appropriate to so many occasions, isn't 100% accurate today. The French lost the World Cup Soccer match to Italy with a lot of help from the amazing Italian team. But however valiantly the Italians played, it was the French being themselves that was determinative.

Zidane - whose name we'd never heard before today and will likely never hear again - is (was?) the best of the French players. And he performed perfectly, head-butting an Italian player and earning ejection from the game. It's all too sweet. Viva Italia!