Sides unchanged for final

Italy coach Marcello Lippi and his France counterpart Raymond Domenech both named unchanged teams for Sunday evening’s World Cup final in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.

Domenech fielded the same line-up that has started all four of France’s knockout matches with Zinedine Zidane playing his last match before retirement behind lone frontman Thierry Henry with Franck Ribery and Florent Malouda on the flanks.