World Cup 2006

2006 Fifa World Cup Soccer Cards(6 cards per pack)
$3.50

The Fifa 2006 World Cup Film - The Grand Finale
$14.94
I saw this on a HD channel a while back and the video itself is excellent. The sound and picture quality is amazing, like watching it live, and Brosnan's narration is a nice touch. It's subtle and informative. My one star review is in reference to the Cup itself. Germany hosted the event magnificantly, and their squad undoubtedly played the best during the finals. It all went wrong when Australia and Italy met. The game was rigged, and anyone who hasn't been lobotimized or is in denial like every Iti fan could see it. Several months after the finals FIFA even apologized to Australia and it's fans, like that was some kind of compensation. When I visited Melbourne and alpine Victoria last year, I personally saw how pissed these awesome people were/are when I would ask about that sham match. After that, the Ukraine, the "cinderella" of the finals got jittery and ran out of steam in a match up that shouldn't even have happened. The skill-less wonder Luca Toni had two fluke goals, and then the Azzuri were up against my Germans. After a little more foul play from FIFA which left midfielder Torsten Frings benched as a senseless punishment for a foul he never committed, Italy once again got lucky and scored two of the biggest fluke goals I've ever seen. It reminded me of Ronaldo's flukes in the 2002 final. Deutschland sure has set recent records for being cheated out of major tournaments. On to the final, Zidane gets red carded when football rules clearly state that a referee must see the foul to administer that card, which in this case didn't happen. Italy then went on to get lucky again in the penalty kicks. It's easy to win with the referees clearly on your side, messing with the opponents heads as often as possible. I mean it was just PAINFULLY evident how rigged the Cup was in their favor when all was said and done.

You get the idea. I'm just calling like it was, hardly being a mere bitter German football fan.

In conclusion, the 2006 World Cup was mezmerising to watch before it fell apart in the knock out rounds. Sadly it happened again for Spain in the Euros, making it painfully obvious that even the beautiful thing that is the World Cup is not immune to human greed and corruption...

Goleo VI Presents His 2006 FIFA World Cup Hits
$18.98
Let me first state that i have ranked this album 4 stars....4 stars for the "stand up" track, and zero for the rest of the album....i dont know why you would by this album other than for the stand up " track!!!and what a track it is. the rest can be played at your kids party as long as they are under 10 years of age!

if you are a football nut, and took holidays just to sit up at 11pm, 1am 3am and 5am (basically live noctural), to watch the socceroos, etc, you would have felt the spine tingling "stand up" anthem blared after each match was completed. This track by the italian love song maestro patrizio buanne is the only good song on this album and is well worth the money just to have this rendition in your collection.
There are some other moments such as a remix of whitney houston's i wanna dance with somebody and a remix of the old naughty by nature hit hip hob hooray but like 99% of all remixes not done by the original artists they done live up to the bill.
All in all young kids will love the album and not go for the "stand up" track (cause its an old traditional track), as it is aimed at them, however as i said the rendition of "Stand up" is that good, that classic, that overwhelming and will remain in the hearts of all football nuts like myself especially bringing back memories of the after match pictures of Tim Cahill and john aloisi as they took the socceroos to where they had never been to before.
What a track!!! 4 stars for the track 0 stars for the rest of the album

2006 FIFA World Cup
$29.99
I am really disappointed because i haven't received my video game. Still waiting for it to arrive, email the person i bought the game from and they say they cant do anything. I feel like i need to get my money back and purchase the game somewhere else. It isnt fair for someone to get charge for a product if they havent received it yet, plus pay shipping & handling.