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The Germans managed the third place at the FIFA World cup 2006; after having shed tears at the Semis 4 days back.They are glad and so are their fans; the country is celebrating! Schweini emerged the hero and Klose couldnot add to his top scoring list.Kahn(GER) and Figo(POR) made their way out of International Football as modern legends. The match however was not all that entertaining since we didn't see much of a fight back from the Portugese. The Finals to watched out at CET 20:00!

The turning point at both the Semis... Grosso took Italy to the Finals while Del Piero confirmed the same....2 goals within the last 2 minutes, unbelievable Football can be! Germany shocked and so its fans....Emotions changed quickly at Dortmund stadium after about 2 hours of no score by both teams. While at Munich, France made their way with a penalty shot by Zidane and Portugal just couldn't score or had any luck with referee judgement for penalty appeal! To watch out now.... if France/Italy would be champions and if Germany/Portugal would secure the 3rd place!

We are now left with 4 European teams; quite unsure about who would lift the 2006 cup! Now that crowd favortites- Brazil ,Argentina and England are off , Italy was the only predictable win! Theirry Henry and Klose remain my heroes as France and Germany enter the semis of FIFA World Cup 2006. My new hero is Ricardo who without doubt proved Portugese are better off than the English team. Crippled by the loss of a crying and injured Beckham and aggressive Rooney; the team couldnot even take advantage of couple of tense penalty shots by the Portugese! At 3-1; we soon had a whole bunch of England supporters crying at the loss ....The following match was also quite a surprise win as Brazil are still considered the best team!I hope to see re-run of the Brazil vs. France match before I comment on the match.... On the other hand, half of 2006 has already passed by while I think I was just getting used to the year 2006.Now when I look back- I did finally get my car windows tinted, got a new wall...

International Football matches are something I have missed in a long time....Thanks to the FIFA 2006, I decided to watch football after ages or lets be precise...the last football match I saw was (Arsenal vs. Tottenham) was a year back which was different fun! For the 2002 FIFA ,I had the pleasure of being in Germany and obeserve the craze, the street celebrations and even big screens in offices, this time its at home!! Yes, we took the connection! I come home after Violin classes and I get the pleasure of seeing Lahm's goal in less than 2 minutes of my settling down...then on the game was pulsating. Costa Rica were actually good fighters, the birthday boy (Klose) was just too good and Frings' goal confirmed Deutschland's win!I was so excited that I watched the next game - Ecuador vs. Poland , and as predicted, Ecuador were too good for the Polish! Not a great game though... Ok, I am watching out for today's matches, but the awaited one is the Brazil team!