Italian team won the championship holding the Hercules Cup

Beijing time at 2 o'clock on the 10th (German local time at 20 o'clock on the 9th), the 18th World Cup finals began at the Olympic stadium in Berlin. Italy scored 1 to 1 in 120 minutes in France and won 5-3 in the penalty shoot-out. The fourth time it won the World Cup. Shortly after the opening, Materazzi fouled Malouda and Zidane scored a penalty kick. But Materazzi equalized the header and Tony then hit the crossbar. In the second half, Tony headed the net and was ruled offside. In overtime, Zidane's extremely threatening header was dismissed by Buffon, but he was hit by Materazzi's chest and sent off to end his career in the most unexpected way. In the penalty shootout, Trezeguet's shot was blocked by the crossbar and Grosso scored a decisive penalty.

The two teams start the same as in the semi-finals. Nesta is the only main team that missed the two teams. He missed all the matches in the knockout stage due to injury to the groin. Saha, the French substitute striker, accumulated a yellow card suspension and Italian midfielder De Rossi ended the four-game suspension and sat on the bench. Cannavaro played for the 100th time on behalf of the national team and became the third Italian goalkeeper to enter the "Hundred Hall of Fame" after Maldini and Zoff.

In the previous 32 meetings between the two teams, Italy scored 17 wins, 8 draws and 7 losses, scored 74 goals with 75 goals, won the first two games in the 4 World Cup clashes (quarter-finals of 1938 and the 1978 group match), but in 1986, The 1/8 finals of the year ended in a 0-2 defeat, which was the last time Italy lost in the 90 minutes of the World Cup knockout stage. Since then, France has remained undefeated in all competitions (4 wins and 2 draws). In the 1998 World Cup quarter-finals, the French team won the penalty shootout. The last time the two teams met in the finals of the tournament was the 2000 European Cup. Italy had only 17 seconds left to win. Wiltord tied the score, and overtime Sergey Trezeguet won the "Golden Ball".

The 7th time in the history of the World Cup was won by two European teams. The last time Italy defeated West Germany in Madrid in 1982, the team’s first two wins also defeated European opponents (Winning Czech Republic in 1934 and Hungary in 1938). Italy lost in two finals in the Americas lost to Brazil (in Mexico City in 1970, rose bowl in the United States in 1994). Since losing to West Germany in the semifinals in 1986, France has not lost the ball in the knockout stage.

More than 70,000 fans poured into the Olympic Stadium, and more than one billion people watch live TV. French President Jacques Chirac, Italian President Napolitano, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary-General Annan, South African President Mbeki, Austrian Prime Minister Hussein, Prince Albert of Monaco and other politicians were on the lookout. The 11-minute closing ceremony was held before the game. Less than 1 minute after the start, Henry collided with Cannavaro when he ran in the middle of the game. He seemed to have a dizzy head with a neck injury. Trezeguet began to warm up on the sidelines. Fortunately, after two and a half minutes, Henry returned to play.

Subsequently, Zambrotta took the lead in the restricted area in front of the penalty zone and took down Vieira and was given a yellow card. France made a long pass from a free kick. Henry ferried a header near the left sideline. Malouda turned to the left and turned to the penalty zone to break through the double-teaming of Cannavaro and Materazzi and touched slightly with Materazzi's raised left leg. After falling to the ground, Argentine referee Erisondo pointed to the penalty spot! Zidane knifed the right foot calmly to play the spoon, the ball hit the bottom edge of the right beam rebounded to the goal line in, and then hit the beam was obtained by Buffon, but the ball had crossed the border, France took the lead in the first 7 minutes! Zidane became the fourth player to score 3 goals in the World Cup finals. Italy was defeated by the other player for the first time in this tournament. Buffon ended the record of conceding for 460 consecutive minutes and missed the record that the former had added 517 minutes.