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Goa laments Portugal's loss in FIFA World Cup semi-finals Panaji: Goan fans of the Portuguese national football team lamented its penalty kick loss to France in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup. Dressed in Portuguese colours, jerseys and draped in Portugal's flag, the fans were left shocked by the defeat. The penalty kick taken by French captain Zinedine Zidane changed everything. The crowd became quiet and when the final whistle blew, they filtered out, dejected and literally angry at the referee's decision of awarding a penalty to France. "What should I say? I am really sad about the defeat of Portugal. It was really unfair on the part of the referee. I think the decision was unfair. It was only the Portuguese who were dominating but the penalty gave chance to the France. I am really unhappy," said Arvind Menezes, a football fan sporting a Portuguese jersey. Although the fans are heart broken at the defeat of their team, they hope that Portugal will defeat Germany for the third position. "I know Portuguese are best. They have done a great job by defeating Germany and for that I am extremely happy. Portugal is the best team," said another football fan, Julian of Panjim. For most of them the World Cup soccer meant a month-long excitement of Viva Portugal and Forca Portugal renting the air at midnight hours, watching the telecast of the matches. After all, Goa was a Portuguese colony till 1961 and the old links are still alive in the veins of many Goans. -- Asian News International (ANI) -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England Comment: Piss heads - Portugal did a great job defeating Germany? Definitely 'Stockholm syndrome' no? _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
