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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

i'll be really interested to compare how the Germans look compared to the Dutch, Brazil, Italy...i think they outclassed Argentina (based on the first game against different opponents of course)...

Klose is a great player I know, but it sounded like he was in a funk...Mueller is supposed to be a wonderkind, but Ozil was the revelation to me...

Oezil was amazing!!!! I heard a lot about this kid.

Oezil is of Turkish decent but is born in germany.

I also think Podoloski's family is of german minority decent.

Podolski was born to Krystyna Podolska, a former member of the Polish national handball team and Waldemar Podolski, former Polish football professional and the 1980 champion of Poland with Szombierki Bytom, in the Silesian industrial town of Gliwice (near Katowice), Poland. His paternal family belongs to the German minority in Upper Silesia. In 1987, when Łukasz Podolski was two years old, his family emigrated from Poland to West Germany and was given Aussiedler status,[4] but Podolski said in 2008 that he also has Polish blood.[5] Podolski grew up in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, and later in Pulheim, both near Cologne.[6] He still has Polish citizenship, but he travels with a German passport

And this is about Klose

Born in Oberschlesien, Klose plays for the German national team. He is German by birth and qualified for selection by the German national team because of the German nationality of his father.

Mesut Özil (born 15 October 1988 in Gelsenkirchen) is a footballer[2] of Turkish origin who currently plays for Werder Bremen and the German national football team.

Marin is Bosnian but

Marin moved from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Germany as a 2-year old in 1991 with his mother, Borka, and father, Ranko. They moved to Germany due to his mother's job.