World Cup South Africa, 2010 Thread

[Flame Of Liberty]

Originally Posted by PIMking

There is a Mercedes plant about 20 miles from my apartment complex and we have about million other Germans here. I have about 20 of them in my living room! Place is an absolute mad house!

You had more Germans in your house than on your team (bench included)

[arloiginla]

Die Mannschaft uber alles!

[oldschoolcalgary]

wow...the Germans were fantastic.

it was a really beautiful display of great football. Didn't think they were that good this year considering Klose's troubles in club play, but the young kids were phenomenal. A joy to watch.

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by arloiginla

die mannschaft uber alles!

dfb elf!!!!

[SeoulFire]

Was great to see the thuggeroos got what they deserved.

[ipuckedyourmom]

Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary

wow...the Germans were fantastic.

it was a really beautiful display of great football. Didn't think they were that good this year considering Klose's troubles in club play, but the young kids were phenomenal. A joy to watch.

I definitely agree about all that young talent. Klose as well as Podolski have always played much better for the national team then they have for their club teams. Klose won the golden boot at the 06 World Cup so I'm not surprised to see him do well. He could have easily had a hat trick today.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty

You had more Germans in your house than on your team (bench included)

I was going to say that. Are there any actual Germans playing for Germany anymore?

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by valo403

Huh?

They're a bunch of diving cheats that whine and cry the second something doesn't go their way. I can't stand them.

[d_phaneuf]

Hope the entire England team outside of Gerrard (who was all ready giving a good effort) watched that game and they raise their urgency from here on out, finishing 1st in the group is important because you likely avoid ze Germans in the round of 16

[Temporary_User]

Finally, it took them long enough!
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[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by valo403

Huh?

Aussies are known to be poor losers and even worse winners. Before the match the Aussie media wrote alot about how bad the German team is this year and how they will park the bus to thwart the Aussie attack.

The German sure parked the bus alright.

[GirlySports]

Italians a little testy before they even start

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-c...cc=5901&ver=us

When pressed, though, Lippi told journalists: ''If you don't understand the line-up you should change your trade and give up being journalists. If you don't understand the kind of line-up I am using, you better change jobs. Come on, what excuse do you have? But I'm not going to tell you, anyway.
''Let me say once again that I haven't even told the players. If I tell you today, that is not fair. We'll see if you got it right.''

[Ozy_Flame]

No heart from the Aussies for most of the game. That's unfortunate; what they should have used was veteran savvy, not try and match skill for skill. What they should have done is one-touch passing, confuse the midfield, and collapse on attacking zone.

Essentially the Aussies gave the Germans too much room to breathe, and didn't finish their defensive efforts.

Here's hoping New Zealand puts on a more spirited performance against Italy!!

[PIMking]

Originally Posted by Ark2

I was going to say that. Are there any actual Germans playing for Germany anymore?

Klose, Padolski were born in poland but left at a very early age and grew up in Germany. EDIT ( I'm sure if you want to go back about 50 years before they were born that land was german.. I know I'm stretching it)

Cacau has a German passport.

Everyone else I believe is a natural born German.

Gomez is german and was born in germany.

But I guess that's okay for the Canadian national hockey team with Heatley playing for them......

[GirlySports]

Can't be any worse than France. I'm not sure there are any Frenchmen on the France team.

[Matty81]

The German team is at least 90% german born, unless he was referring to them not being ethnic germans which is pretty meaningless in this day and age for any 1st world country's sports teams imo.

[Ark2]

Originally Posted by Matty81

The German team is at least 90% german born, unless he was referring to them not being ethnic germans which is pretty meaningless in this day and age for any 1st world country's sports teams imo.

Fair enough. I knew that Klose, Padolski and Cacau weren't German and I assumed that Gomez wasn't either, but I wasn't sure about the rest of the team. Really though, that isn't all that bad.

[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...

[C_Rush]

Pretty awesome clinic from Germany. Great control and awesome action all game long - much more entertaining than most soccer matches.

[Matty81]

Originally Posted by Ark2

Fair enough. I knew that Klose, Padolski and Cacau weren't German and I assumed that Gomez wasn't either, but I wasn't sure about the rest of the team. Really though, that isn't all that bad.

Actually I just took a closer look and Marin (Bosnia) and Trochowski (Poland) are born in other countries too. Then Aogo, Khedira, Ozil and Boateng all have dual nationalities so you're not way off or anything - I think outside of Cacau they are all raised in Germany and I'd consider them German though so it just depends on perspective I guess. I bet everybody on our (Canadian) national team could play for somebody else and I know we have exported close to 10 guys to other national teams who were raised here or are at least partially "Canadian".