SOCCER NOTEBOOK: IT'S A CELEBRATION! ROME WELCOMES HOME WORLD CHAMPIONS.Byline: Staff and Wire Services Air force planes decorated the sky with colorful smoke as Italy's triumphant World Cup squad returned home Monday evening in Rome to celebrate with its jubilant fans. Team captain Fabio Cannavaro Fabio Cannavaro, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI[1][2] (born September 13, 1973 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. Currently he is the captain of the Italian national football team and plays at club level for Real Madrid. , clutching the golden trophy, was the first to emerge from the chartered plane that brought the team back from Germany a day after Italy's victory over France on penalty kicks. Acrobatic air force planes streaked overhead, coloring the sky with streams of red, white and green smoke -- hues of the Italian flag -- as well as in blue, which is the team's nickname Cannavaro hoisted the trophy in front of about 500,000 fans during a victory rally at Circus Maximus The Circus Maximus (Latin for greatest circus, in Italian Circo Massimo) is an ancient hippodrome and mass entertainment venue located in Rome. , an area for entertainment in ancient Rome Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. . The players hoarsely sang the national anthem on a platform featuring a banner that read ``Proud to be Italians.'' Fans on foot or on motorscooters had overwhelmed police escorts in the streets and squares of the capital, and forced the bus to a crawl as the players made their way to their first stop in Rome: a toast hosted by Premier Romano Prodi. ``Thanks, thanks for reminding young people that results come only with hard work, sweat and commitment,'' Prodi told the players at the premier's office in Chigi Palace. ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ratings increase: The World Cup final earned a 7.0 fast national rating for ABC, a 180 percentage increase from the 2002 final in Japan. Sunday's final in Berlin, in which Italy beat France on penalty kicks, was also the third-highest rated men's soccer game on ABC since the network resumed airing the World Cup in 1994. Only the `94 final, when Brazil beat Italy on penalty kicks (9.5), and a second-round match that year between the U.S. and Brazil (9.3), had higher ratings. Also: U.S. Soccer Hall of Famer Umberto Abronzino Umberto Abronzino (November 16, 1920 - July 1,2006) was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1971 for his lifelong dedication to building the sport of soccer. Abronzino was elected to the California Soccer Association Hall of Fame in 1964 and the California Youth , who played a massive role in the growth of soccer near San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , died last week at 85. ... Dutchman Dick Advocaat Richard Advocaat (born September 27, 1947 in The Hague, Netherlands) is the Dutch coach of the Russian pro soccer team Zenit. He has served as coach of his native Dutch national football team and more recently as the chief of South Korea national football team, earning the team's , South Korea's coach at the World Cup, lured Korean stars Lee Ho and Kim Dong Jin to Zenit St. Petersburg. The club settled for a 0-0 draw with Dynamo Moscow Dynamo Moscow may refer to one of the following Dinamo sports clubs in Moscow. In Soviet time all of them were parts of the All-Union Dinamo sports society.
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