Thuggery Pays?

In the final game of the World Cup Soccer, the French actually had the opportunity to beat someone at something. One jerk on their team (a redundancy, I know) decides to head butt one of the Italian players in the sternum and drop him. The referee immediately gives the French player a red card, throwing him out of the match.

With this dickwad out of the match, when the game came down to penalty kicks he wasn't able to participate and the French lost.

As a result of this, said dickwad was named the MVP of the match. And they can't understand why Americans approach soccer with the same enthusiasm as they do women's field hockey.

I guess it's a French thing - we wouldn't understand.