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July 04 Gianluigi Buffon, July 4th 2006It’s just as well I hit the goalpost — with my head — while my team-mates didn’t let us down and were bang on target scoring goals. The Ukraine game was a strange match in many respects, because we were clearly in control for the whole first half but then nearly ruined it all in the second half. When I managed to get my hands on the ball just a couple of inches from the white line and then hit the post, I knew we had done it. We’re a team that it’s very difficult to score against —so difficult, in fact, much so that so far nobody has managed it, apart from Zaccardo, that is (that’s a joke). Could that be down to me? Well, it’s something that's nice to hear, obviously, but the truth is that everybody has played a big part in the achievement.
You may have seen at the end of the match how we dedicated our win to Gianluca Pessotto, in the hope that he’ll soon recover and be back among the people who appreciate him so much. We hope he got to see the flag that we held up for him.
And now Germany are waiting for us. Do you remember? When the World Cup started I said they were going to be a force to be reckoned with, although at the time few other people thought they were in with much of a chance. But as things have turned out I’ve been proved right (even though Argentina certainly deserved to reach the semi-finals). So let's forget what happened in that friendly a few weeks ago and look at this match as our big chance: if we win, we’ll have beaten the host nation, and otherwise — although I prefer not to think about it too much — we’ll be one of the four best countries in the world, at worst.
I’m sure the match in Dortmund will also mean we’ll get to hear some more of the negative comments about us that a minority among the German media have been making. I bet they’re charging their batteries even as I write this. Well, let’s just wait and see, shall we? TrackbacksWeblogs that reference this entry
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