Was France's '98 world cup win superior to Italy's '06 win? Analise.?
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Of course, winning by 3 goals during the standard play time is faaar better than winning on shoot outs.Italy won by luck and everybody knows it.But in the 1998 world cup,France won over Brazil 3-0 with 2 beautiful headers from Zizou.This victory deserves more laurals and accolades than winning by luck.Its fortunate that ppl hav understood this.
1007341
France is far from their magical best of 1998.After getting goalless in 2002,they failed to win the opening 2 matches in 2006.Zidane is banned for last game and that can prove doom for France.I think its all over for them
1145699
France 1938, 1998\nItaly 1934, 1990\nMexico 1970, 1986\nGermany 1974, 2006
541582
Italy won the 1938 world cup final in France against Hungary 4-3.\n\nGoals Italy: Colaussi 6, 35, Piola 19, 82\nGoals Hungary: Titkos 8, Sarosi 70
1092597
Um lol it's cool but it really is speculative though. For every example raised to prove this "theory", many more counter-examples can be raised too.\n\nFor instance, France won in 1998 and (3964 - 1998 = 1966)\nBut it was England who won in 1966!\n\nYou can obtain a list of past winners from this site: http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/worldcup/a/wcupwinz.htm.\n\nBasically if this "theory" is to be believed, then we can predict the winners of the World Cup for the future years as follows:\n2010: Germany\n2014: Uruguay\n2018: Italy\n2022: Italy\n2026: Uruguay\n\nYou can check the math.\n\nSo just because a couple of World Cup winners can be "linked" up like that doesn't mean that it's always gonna work. Interesting, but at the end of the day, it ain't accurate.
1088785
1970 - BRAZIL 4-1 ITALY\n1982 - ITALY 3-1 WEST GERMANY\n1994 - BRAZIL 0-0 ITALY (Brazil won 3-2 on penalties)\n2006 - ????\n\nthe above statistics shows that ITALY qualified for the final, once in 12 years beginning in 1970. they qualfied again in 1982 & 1994. \n\non 04.07.2006, ITALY will play GERMANY for a place in the final. GERMANY with their home support could sneak thru while ITALY could do it yet again after their miserable campaign in 2002. will the history favours ITALY?? we'll wait & see.
1044889
That was ITALY, losing 4-1, probably one of the greatest World Cup final of all time. BRAZIL's winning team of 1970 was one of the greatest squad led by you know who.....Pele.
333685
Italy won their first World Cup against Czechoslovakia in Italy 1934. They won the game 2-1. Germany beat Austria 3-2 to get 3rd place.
777560
I thought Brazil would make it to the finals definitely with all their super talented players.....but they bowed out of the tournament to France. Even the night before the Brazil-France game, I thought Brazil would avenge their '98 world cup loss to France. But they unfortunately came up short. I thought Brazil would do much better than they did. \n\nAs for the other teams, I didn't think Italy would get as far as they did, to be perfectly honest with you. France were playing very well with a motivated Zizou. I thought Argentina would beat Germany, and that Germany might beat Italy. And I didn't expect Portugal to get so far.....so, it was a highly unpredictable tournament with no lack of surprises and upsets, it was hard to predict what would happen. Because all these teams at the world cup are good and on any given day, one team can come out on top of another. Luck is an important factor.
992884
They better!!!  As long as they don't get a big head and think it'll be easy and play well they'll win.  I have faith in Italy.  Afterall they have won 3 World Cups b4 and Ukraine is fairly new.  Ukraine got beaten badly by Spain too.  Go Italy!!!  Make me proud boys!!!
981726
It wont be Italy. If Italy is able to win france in the world cup, they will also be able to win them during the qualifying match in euro 2008. So i doubt Italy will win. I will go for France or Germany.
475423
world cups are held just once every four years. with that being said here are a list counting down with the winners.\n\nGermany 2006        ?\nJapan/Korea 2002    Brazil\nFrance 1998         France\nUS 1994             Brazil\nItaly 1990          W. Germany\n\nAs you can see with this year falling on a world cup year there was no competition in 1996, therefore no winner.\n\nFederation Internationale de Footballe Association
1035124
Yes!\n\nUruguay in 1930\n\nItaly in 1934\n\nEngland in 1966\n\nWest Germany in 1974\n\nArgentina in 1978\n\nAnd France in 1998\n\nThey all won the world cup and hosted it.\n\n\nBrazil and Sweeden both went to the championship game but lost when they hosted it in 1950 (Brazil) and 1958 (Sweeden).
652052
It might have been in the latter stages of the game between East and West Germany in the 1974 World Cup.  East germany were winning 1-0 and that result ensured that both teams progressed to the next round.
404183
In World Cup 1998, France scored 3:0 & that was the 1st time that Brazil failed to become the champion of World Cup 1998
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Italy defeated Hungary 4-2 in the 1938 World Cup.
509232
brazil won the world cup 1994 \nBrazil. Beat Italy on penalt shoot-out.