heheh, oleee

ballack with four runners-up medals!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
as much as i wanted germany to win they didnt deserve it...they played like crap.
and ballack was really annoying me tonight

Good. we lost to the champions. so i'm happy with the final result.

gotta feel good for torres after a tough tourney up to this point.

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Originally posted by noikeee it's hard to single out a key player in Spain. The team just clicked perfectly together. That goes for the whole tournament. Hard to pick out a "best player" of the competition too.

Exactly why they won. Team effort. No Madrid/Barca arguing. They played as a team and even with Marchena in the back four, who as a valencia fan, I wonder how they did ok. Delighted for them. Would've been lovely to have had the dutch in the final as the best two teams from the tournament, but that couldn't have happened. Turkey would've given so much more than deutschland did though.

Ha ha they got Pirates of the Caribbean theme going on now. How seriously gay. Stadium music has been lame this year.

beautiful to see Sergio Ramos with an Antonio Puerta t-shirt on. From such a horrible start to the season, a brilliant ending for spanish football.

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Originally posted by Ian Exactly why they won. Team effort. No Madrid/Barca arguing. They played as a team and even with Marchena in the back four, who as a valencia fan, I wonder how they did ok. Delighted for them. Would've been lovely to have had the dutch in the final as the best two teams from the tournament, but that couldn't have happened. Turkey would've given so much more than deutschland did though.

It was a weird championship, on one side of the bracket we had the "best team of the tournament" Holland, who disappeared from the field and got beat by "best team of the tournament" Russia, who disappeared from the field and got beat by the actual best team, Spain.

On the other side of the bracket, the teams were just weaker IMO, Croatia was unconvincing to me, Turkey had willpower and luck and little else, we (Portugal) were the best from this side IMO but proved to have some pretty big holes in our organization as well, and Germany just went through on luck and ugly efficiency. Glad their luck ran out at the end and a good team won.

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sempre contra a corrente do jogo

we played like shit. its sad when jansen looked like the best player on our team. none of our passes worked. spains did. they won the midfield battle. what more can i say...

congrats spain.

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Originally posted by Ian beautiful to see Sergio Ramos with an Antonio Puerta t-shirt on. From such a horrible start to the season, a brilliant ending for spanish football.

Was just about to mention that also.

Very classy from Ramos seeing him honoring Puerta, I have to admit.

Alot more to life than football.

Respect.

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Originally posted by noikeee It was a weird championship, on one side of the bracket we had the "best team of the tournament" Holland, who disappeared from the field and got beat by "best team of the tournament" Russia, who disappeared from the field and got beat by the actual best team, Spain. On the other side of the bracket, the teams were just weaker IMO, Croatia was unconvincing to me, Turkey had willpower and luck and little else, we (Portugal) were the best from this side IMO but proved to have some pretty big holes in our organization as well, and Germany just went through on luck and ugly efficiency. Glad their luck ran out at the end and a good team won.

I rated both portugal and croatia along with the dutch & the spanish as the best 4 pre-tournament. You were shown up without a good left-back and lacking a striker with the quality that Pauleta had, that Nuno Gomes showed in Euro 2000 etc.