The Azzurri win the world cup!!!
It was a hard fought game with Italy dominating the first half and the French coming back strongly in the second.

In the first half France got an early penalty and from what I saw it clearly looked like simulation. Malouda went down in the Italian penalty box and really there was no contact. The referee was a little far away and probably didn't see. Zidane took the cheekiest of penalties and scored with the ball luckily deflecting in after hitting the cross bar...
Italy struck back, Materazzi got redemption 13 minutes later as he headed in a perfect curving corner kick from Pirlo for a deserved goal. Materazzi had brought down Malouda earlier and conceded that penalty and maybe that’s why after scoring the goal he had both his hands raised and fingers pointed towards the heavens as a thank you gesture...

In the second half it was Buffon's two awesome saves, one off Zidane's powerful header and one off a lighting quick strike by Henry that kept Italy in the game.

Going into extra time the now infamous head gore incident happened. Zidane just lost it. It was totally uncalled for and very unsportsmanlike. He made full contact and knocked the player down. He was obviously sent off... At what point do you go from playing a sport to acting like a deranged person and assaulting a fellow player??? Sad ending to his illustrious international career…

Going into penalties, players from both the sides were inch perfect in their shots and both the goalkeepers couldn't get to anything. The only miss came from Trezeguet's, who had earlier replaced Henry for France, penalty which hit the cross bar and bounced out. So it ended 5-4 in Italy's favour. In my opinion Cannavaro was the man of the match. He tirelessly defended for the whole 120 minutes hardly putting a foot wrong and kept Zidane, Henry and Rebery at bay. Awesome effort and display…

Then the celebrations started and it included Camoranesi getting his long hair chopped to half its length probably due to a bet/wager...

I felt it was a deserving win for Italy for the way they played this whole world cup...