World Cup fever is still running hot at this very moment where the quater-finals will kick off tommorrow. The World Cup has totally changed from a boring tournement from the start to an exciting exibition of the world's finests. First, we have the Brazilians with their world finest footwork. Next, we have the Spains with their world finest youngsters. And of course, Argentina with their world finest team spirit. Finally, we have the Italians with the world finest diving skills. Despite that, the Italians have a huge, endless vast of fans backing them up. The amount of Italians followers cannot be under-estimated. Watch this and you'll know why.
Arghh.. My ears are in pain. The commentator is practically shouting and screaming at his top voice. By the way, this is taken from CCTV of China. Its shows the part where Grosso practically dived in the dying minutes to earn Italy a penalty during their Final 16 match with Australia. Totti converted the penalty to a goal later and gave Italy their valuable victory. I know that before the match, the Italians said that they will rather win and not entertain and will do anything they can to earn this victory. But I didn't thought they will resort to diving. That's a total disgrace.
But my main point of showing the video is not about how the Italians win. It's about the commentator. The commentator, Huang Jianxiang, was obviously baised against the Aussies. The Socceroos may be intrested in this take of "impartiality in sports broadcasting" from China's most popular TV commentator.
Accoarding to the Associated Press, this is how Huang Jianxiang relayed when Fabio Grosso went down under Lucas Neill's "challenge" in the last few seconds of the match millions to the millions chinese viewers on state-run CCTV.
Penalty! Penalty! Penalty! Grosso's done it,Grosso's done it! The great Italian left back! He succeeded in the glorious traditions of Italy! Facchetti, Cabrini and Maldini, their souls are infused in him at this moment! Grosso represents the long history and traditions of Italian soccer, he's not fighting alone at this moment! He's not alone!
More was to come when Francesco Totti converted the spot-kick.
Goooooal! Game over! Italy win! Beat the Australians! They do not fall in front of Hiddink again! Italy the great! Left back the great! Happy birthday to Maldini! Forza Italia! The victory belongs to Italy, to Grosso, to Cannavaro, to Zambrotta, to Buffon, to Maldini, to everyone who loves Italian soccer! Hiddink ... lost all his courage faced with Italian history and traditions ... He finally reaped fruits which he had sown! They should go home. They don't need to go as far away as Australia as most of them are living in Europe. Farewell!
Another on-air colleague, recognising that this was not exactly appropriate for a supposedly unbiased sports commentator, tried to silence Huang, which has obviously failed.
Huang later said he couldn't remember what he had said in the heat of the moment and his preference forItaly was because he had commentated on Serie A for many years."I'm more familiar with Italian players ... and I don't like Australians indeed. I was hoping they'd do badly." He said Australia reminded him of another "lousy team" which eliminated China in the World Cup qualifiers in 1981: New Zealand.
This is the most idiotic commentator I've ever saw. His comments biased too much. It's no problem for him to be a fan of Italian team, but he can't insult Australia. We need passion, but not his madness. It's a soccer match played between two countries. He's definatly not professional enough to add in his emotion. It really hurts China & Australia's friendship.
He don't like the Aussies? For a commentator whose country isn't even in the World Cup, who is he to say bad things about Australia? Australia had played well this World Cup. I bet he didn't watch the match against the Japs. I reckoned he bet heavily on the Italy team or something like that. This is so shameful.
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