Brazil 94 loss hurt but I never expected us to win that. France euro 2000 final where DP missed two sitters and we choked was the worst loss I've ever experienced. Korea 2002 I also went ballistic.
Yes, can we delete this thread? We need positive vibes and thinking on the eve of the WC. These are good threads later in the summer.
Ok, so maybe thread deletion was a bit too severe I just don't see the need to open old wounds about Italia 90, USA 94, Euro 2000, or WC2002 a few days before our debut game.
Going out in Korea 2002 based on the acts of an "official" was the hardest one for me to swallow. It hurt even more after we found out what a true piece of shit Byron Moreno was after the World Cup, most notably when he was imprisoned for attempting to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
No shame the result was not fair Italy was much better then a 4-0 result. But making it to a final nonetheless was a great accomplishment.
So what's the point of this thread before the games start? To ease the impact of going out in this tournament? i.e. "at least it's not as bad as that time when..." ? Just trying to understand the timing here too.
stop being superstitious, nothing wrong with discussing this. Korea in 2002 was worst for me, I was 14 and played soccer in high school so i had looked forward to that so much.I remember me and my friends stayed up all night playing fifa and chugging soda to stay up, we watched the first game at 2am for a bit, played fifa and passed out thinkig for some reason the game started at 6:45 AM, my dad woke us up at 7:15 am and alerted us that the game was on and when we turned it on it was in over time, saw the disallowed goal and the winner by them.. It was like a punch in the guy, I remember seeing our defender with a bandage on his head after being busted open and pissed that i had missed such a great game. Those were the days... we actually had practice that day which made it all the more sombering.
Soccer was so good back then, all the heroes were in their prime, the cleats were the best, the original predators were really special. Uniforms were clean, badges were not giant like they are, and those nike commercials in the cage were insane. Today, these players look like rodeo clowns with these cleats that look like they belong in japanese street culture, the uniforms are less classy and more flashy, and the commercials just don't have it. In fact, it seems like the commercials are non existant in the states.
So its okay for people to shit all over the players they don't like in the current team discussion threads but it's not okay to talk about historical matches whose result will have no influence on current ones.
Me too. Was leaving for Italy the next morning. Had tix to the finals in Rome. Almost cancelled the trip. Luckily cooler heads prevailed. I sold the tix and spent two glorious weeks at the beaches in Southern Italy and met a lovely Swedish girl!
Hmmm.....tough one to choose....i became an Italy fan due to Baggio, Schillacci and Juve when i was 10 so 1990 was my first world cup. i was devasted at that lame ass goal zenga let in against argentina in the semis. that world cup was truly italy's to take. Euro 2012 was the hardest for me to swallow honestly, not because of the scoreline but the fact that it seemed like it was not the day for the team....prandelli chose the wrong players, chiellini got injured, forced sub....then for his last sub he brings in freakin THIAGO MOTTA !!!! you are down 2-0 against spain and you bringin MOTTA to save the day ???? especially when he hadnt played since what? the group stages ?? just too many things he did wrong there...first game was the right formation, he switched it for no reason, then put injured chiellini at LB which balzaretti did a fine job in. Then it pissed me off that Spain was actually trying to run up the scoreline, it was very unclassy of them. i actually used to like spain and the barca players til that day, i lost respect.
For me it was definetely 2002 We had no business losing that game to quelli che mangiono i cane honourable mention to Euro 2008 penalties loss to Spain.... no pirlo or gattuso for that match... and still the loss was tough cause there was still chances to win.. if only Camoranesi or Di Natale had any finish on that day.
That was a hard loss. As you said we had 2 important players out. Canna failed to go because of injury, that hurt. I feel if Pirlo played we would have won that game and went on to win the final.
100% different game.. as we all saw in 2010... when Pirlo came on in the last 25-30 mins or whatever it was in the final game... total different team
Yep. Agreed. 1998 qtr final loss to France was hard also. Afer seeing us lose in 94 and then that, very disappointed. Got worse 2 years later of course
The 2002 world cup was just a nightmare. A complete farce start to finish. I remember watching that Korea game feeling so helpless. It was so obvious that FIFA was the hand guiding Korea because the Spain game was just as rigged