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Published time: June 24, 2012 22:04
Edited time: June 25, 2012 12:01
Joy Hart unable to stop Alessandro Diamanti's penaly shot (AFP Photo / Damien Meyer)
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Late substitute Alessandro Diamanti scored the decisive penalty kick on Sunday night to give Italy a 4-2 shootout win over England and a chance to hold off the German machine in the Euro 2012 semis.

Italy had everything it needed to beat England in the regulation but Roy Hodgson’s charges had a bit of luck staying alive until penalties.

The Italians dominated throughout, outshot England significantly, twice hitting the post, but poor composure in front of Joe Hart’s goal didn’t earn them anything valuable.

They even thought they had scored a late winner through substitute Antonio Nocerino, who headed home from Diamanti's cross in the 115th, but the goal was ruled out due to offside.

Wayne Rooney′s overhead kick late in the regulation (AFP Photo / Carl De Souza
Wayne Rooney's overhead kick late in the regulation (AFP Photo / Carl De Souza

The game was decided on penalties, historically England’s weak point. And history repeated once again. Ashley Young hit the crossbar with England's third, and Ashley Cole's next attempt was saved by Gianluigi Buffon.

Mario Balotelli, Andrea Pirlo, Antonio Nocerino and Diamanti made sure Italy would play so far perfect Germany in the semifinal on June 28.

Italy celebrated shootout win over England (AFP Photo / Damien Meyer)
Italy celebrated shootout win over England (AFP Photo / Damien Meyer)

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kim (unregistered) 30.06.2012 13:36

Some fool claims italian roots are closer to Africa. Well guess what never a italian(Roman) city had 45 % non white than London England.The English have been in mixed blood especially since 1800s when many non whites came settled in England & took british mates.One study had a British DNA being more of african/asian decent than a sicilian.Germany & many parts of Eastern europe were settled by the Huns(mongolian peoples in the 4th & 5th century),it is estimated that up to 20 % of Germans carry Mongolian/asian genes.Scandinavia too has a lot of mixed blood from earlier migrations of siberian mongolian non whites.When the Huns came to Italy Pope Leo bribed them not to settle in Italy & they left.Even the dutch have become mixed---that blonde politicianVeert gilders or however u spell his name has even indonesian blood in him. Hypocrisy & ignorance when these bafoons start talking about genetics.Everyone knows Northern Europe was a basket case until influence from Rome,Greeks & other southern civilizations advanced the world

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Bulov 26.06.2012 01:53

ET (unregistered) wrote in #2
Free Education: Genetic Mapping of the Europeans. DNA You can see from this chart which nation of Europe is the closest to it's original roots of original Indo European ((Aryans, Arians) or Sanskrit people. Scientists knew it all along that Eastern Europeans have preserved the language and the culture, but to find that they still that close to the highest Pradesh cast of Arian Indians, that was a revelation.. Indi an Uttar Pradesh CHART Population hg1 hg2 hg3 hg4 hg7 hg8 hg9 hg10 hg12 hg13 hg16 hg21 hg22 hg26 hg28 Indian Uttar Pradesh 11 44 44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   DISTANCE FROM Indian Uttar Pradesh   Pop ulation Distance 1 Belarusian 15 2 Ukranian 20 3 Slovenian 23 4 Norwegian 25   Vikings 5 Indian Uttar Pradesh Rajputs 27 >one of the highest casts (Aryans, Arians) 6 Northern Swedish 29    Vikings, True Halstad Nordics 7 Polish 30 8 Slovakian 30 9 Czech 31 10 Pakistani Pathan 32 11 Russian 32 12 Yugoslavian 32 13 Gotlander 33 > gothic people of Arian origin 14 Indian Uttar Pradesh Brahmins 33 >religious highest cast of India 15 Pakistani Kalash 37 __________ ____________________ ___Dear ET, would you please give us the source of this info? thanx

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Bulov 26.06.2012 01:45

duncan lucas (unregistered) wrote in #5
ET=You do realise what you are saying is Racism. _________ ___________ Hmm, Actually ET makes a lot of sense. ET also does not talk about color of your skin , which is irrelevant. What is under the skin is everything. ET says that genetic differences between races are far bigger than between the ethnic groups within the race. It is not politically correct statement but it is very true: http://www.charlesda rwinresearch.org/Tax onomicConstruct.pdf If you think of people who cheer for their races , whether black or white,  weirdoes  what do you think of people who cheer for their ethnic groups. Who wave their flags at Olympics who paint their faces in colors representing their ethnicities , weirdoes  on steroids. At least the guys who cheer for their races unite people; Croats would never kill Serbs or Tutsis Hutus if everybody followed ET’s example. So stop waving those Ethnic “Stupid-Racist” flags at Olympics or UFA Championships then give another 1000 years to pass by and we will not see differences between Races, agreed? Or you want to have both ways; be free to discriminate against Russians but prevent discrimination against the blacks. … like a typical paranoid schizophrenic.???

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