Comments on: Lightning Strikes Twice for Italy in Overtime as Archundia Sets Record in Dortmund

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:11:06 +0000

i hope the ref of the Italy V Germany game does the final .. although the game was played very cleancly by both sides (appart from ballack whos just a moron and is no way near as good as people say he is) the ref did a good job … only time he made an error in my mind was when totti was fouled and he didnt give him a feee kick and then geramny went on to nearly score (although you may say that totti did a lot of complaining in that game.. and just as the stroy goes “the boy who cried wolf”) any way i hope the ref again does a good job in the final (as the commentaitor said, we fianlly saw a game being refered like it was in the Serie A, premier league and champions league

By: David

David — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:53:51 +0000

Final results are in: Larrionda 1, Soccer fans 0.

By: David

David — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:43:24 +0000

Henry took a dive in the box and Larrionda awarded a penalty. Looks like the Americans were right.

By: refs

refs — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:00:09 +0000

yo all the refs r from sa last game

that rascim to all the players from white country

fuck u brown shits

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:25:43 +0000

Great analysis. The one thing that I felt differently about – and completely irrelevant and trite – was when you said “In the 43rd, and it seemed very out-of-the-blue to me, the referee warned Jens Lehmann about time-wasting as he set up to take a goal kick.” With the TV cameras focusing on everything else, I can’t be sure but I thought the stern warning was because the Italian striker was walking away with the ball and I believe Lehmann was whining that the Italian should be cautioned for timewasting. My take on things was that Archundia was warning Lehmann that he would be cautioned for asking for a caution, as is FIFAs directive.

Another great performance by Archundia, and a great demonstration for soccer development within CONCACAF. Unfortunately I’d be very surprised if we see him again, just because he just refereed one of the teams that he would be doing on the weekend.

There’s always next time.