FIFA World Cup Soccer 2006: Italy beats France 1:1 a.e.t 5-3 PSO
Well, Italy team wins the World Cup Football on penalty kicks in Berlin, Germany today. Nice. 
I didn’t expect Italy has such a strong soccer team.
BERLIN — Italy let France do nearly anything it wanted Sunday, except win the World Cup. That belongs to the Azzurri, 5-3 winners in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
Outplayed for an hour and into extra time, the Italians won it after French captain Zinedine Zidane was ejected in the 110th minute for a vicious butt to the chest of Marco Materazzi. It was the ugliest act of a tournament that set records for yellow and red cards, diving and, at times, outright brutality.
And it was the last move for Zidane, who is retiring.
Without their leader for the shootout, the French only missed once. But Italy, rarely strong in such situations, made all five. Fabio Grosso clinched the Azzurri’s fourth championship, and his teammates had to chase him halfway across the pitch to celebrate.
“It’s incredibly emotional, words cannot hardly describe it,” Grosso said. “Maybe we still don’t realize what we have achieved. We really wanted to win and in the end we made it.”
Only Brazil has more World Cup wins with five.
Until now, no team since the last Azzurri champions in 1982 had to endure the stress and anguish of a soccer scandal. Rather than be disrupted by the current probe ripping apart the national sport back home, the Italians survived.
In the final, they outlasted France, which underwent a renaissance of its own in the last month. The French controlled the flow of play, only to fail to finish through 120 minutes.
Source: canada.com
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Germany and Portugal will compete today for the third place at 21:00 in Stuttgart. Who do you think will win? 
The 2005-2006 Stanley Cup Champion is Carolina Hurricanes.
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