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Italians celebrate World Cup victory
Jul 10 2006 5:38PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Air force planes decorated the sky with colorful smoke as Italy's triumphant World Cup squad returned home Monday evening to celebrate with its jubilant fans.
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Former midfielder to coach Juventus
Jul 10 2006 3:23PM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Juventus, the Serie A soccer power at the center of the Italy match-fixing scandal, hired former midfielder Didier Deschamps as coach Monday.
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The Zidane mystery: What set him off?
Jul 10 2006 1:26PM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - Was it something he said? With France and Italy tied in extra time of Sunday's World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane head-butted Marco Materazzi in the chest and was ejected. France went on to lose on penalty kicks. The day after, still no one knew what the Italian defender might have said to the French star.
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Zidane wins World Cup's best player award
Jul 10 2006 7:58AM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - France captain Zinedine Zidane, sent off for headbutting Marco Materazzi late in Sunday's World Cup final loss to Italy, won the Golden Ball award for the tournament's best player.
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Italy basks in glory of fourth World Cup
Jul 10 2006 5:16AM (CT)
ROME (AP) - Italians basked in the glory of their team's fourth and hard-fought World Cup victory on Monday _ a welcome distraction from the match-fixing scandal that has tainted Italian soccer.
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Italy beats France for 4th World Cup title
Jul 10 2006 4:48AM (CT)
BERLIN (AP) - The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
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NYC World Cup fans cheer France, Italy
Jul 10 2006 4:23AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Outside Felix, a French restaurant and bar in lower Manhattan, fans of France's soccer team chanted "Allez Les Bleus!"
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Cannavaro gets 100th cap in World Cup
Jul 10 2006 4:21AM (CT)
BERLIN, Germany (AP) - Fabio Cannavaro was a ballboy when Italy lost to Argentina on penalties in his home Naples in the 1990 World Cup.
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