Hey..Buffon..What's this?
I just copied the news from the web-site.
Things are going really ugly.
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Incheon, June 20 (Yonhap) - A dejected Italy departed for Rome aboard a chartered plane at noon Thursday, two days after co-hosts South Korea dumped them out of the World Cup and possibly into a hail of rotten tomatoes at their airport back at home.
It was apparent that the entire Italian delegation, the 23 Azzurri led by head coach Giovanni Trapattoni as well as their relatives and 100 staff members, was disgruntled.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon extended a middle-fingered salute when he saw TV cameras shooting the Azzurri.
Striker Christian Vieri loudly shouted 'Noooo!' when a Korean fan asked him for an autograph, and Francesco Totti, who had been sent off following a red card in Tuesday's match, refused to say anything despite repeated requests from journalists.
Passionate Italian fans have responded to the upset loss in the round of 16 match quite violently. Some of them cried 'death to the referee,' protesting Byron Moreno's decision to give a second yellow card to Totti in extra time.
Luciano Gaucci, president of the Serie A football club Perugia, the team with which Ahn Jung-hwan, the match's golden goal scorer in the 117th minute, is currently affiliated, vented his anger by expressing his intention to fire the 26-year-old player, according to an Italian sports paper.
He was quoted as saying, 'Enough! That guy will never again set foot in Perugia! I'm not going to pay the salary of a guy who has ruined Italian football.'
Ahn's contract with the Italian team under Gaucci's ownership expires at the end of June.
I just copied the news from the web-site.
Things are going really ugly.
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Incheon, June 20 (Yonhap) - A dejected Italy departed for Rome aboard a chartered plane at noon Thursday, two days after co-hosts South Korea dumped them out of the World Cup and possibly into a hail of rotten tomatoes at their airport back at home.
It was apparent that the entire Italian delegation, the 23 Azzurri led by head coach Giovanni Trapattoni as well as their relatives and 100 staff members, was disgruntled.
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon extended a middle-fingered salute when he saw TV cameras shooting the Azzurri.
Striker Christian Vieri loudly shouted 'Noooo!' when a Korean fan asked him for an autograph, and Francesco Totti, who had been sent off following a red card in Tuesday's match, refused to say anything despite repeated requests from journalists.
Passionate Italian fans have responded to the upset loss in the round of 16 match quite violently. Some of them cried 'death to the referee,' protesting Byron Moreno's decision to give a second yellow card to Totti in extra time.
Luciano Gaucci, president of the Serie A football club Perugia, the team with which Ahn Jung-hwan, the match's golden goal scorer in the 117th minute, is currently affiliated, vented his anger by expressing his intention to fire the 26-year-old player, according to an Italian sports paper.
He was quoted as saying, 'Enough! That guy will never again set foot in Perugia! I'm not going to pay the salary of a guy who has ruined Italian football.'
Ahn's contract with the Italian team under Gaucci's ownership expires at the end of June.
