jamesg1213
It was quite some game - I'm not a huge fan but that was riveting stuff. Can't remember anything like that before, and the Brazilian fans standing and cheering the Germans 7th goal was astonishing, and even more humiliating for their own team.
Yep.. I only began to watch soccer/futball or whatever you may call it during the last World Cup, I found it interesting and now I occasionally watch British league play on cable but I liked the German team then and now. They are a machine and Nauer is as good as any goalie I have seen, he is a wall. Müller and Özil are my favorite players on the German team. I look forward to this afternoon's match between Argentina and The Nederlands . I can't help thinking that a WC final between Germany and Argentina would be, in a way, like Germany against Germany (if you know history).
I hope the Dutch win today, I think it will make for a bigger event in Europe. I just hope there is no trouble between Brazilian and Argentine fans.
I was texting with my daughter in Germany during the match, she was in some pub... she said it was crazy there. I hope Britain does better next time around, I think that they should be, and are, better... but like they say in American football, "Any Given Sunday".
Did anyone else watch the ESPN panel after the game? They had the two regular announcers along with an ex-German and ex-Brazilian player. They talked about the emotional response of the people and the team.. especially the team. The Brazilian guy mentioned that the older players from a few decades ago had a problem with the crying and such and that the team has a team psychologist and in his opinion there is a deeper problem with the team, deeper than the defensive planning or anything else, a group emotional problem. They didn't go much into it except to mention that there is something really wrong there. During the game one of the announcers, he seemed to have maybe a Scottish or Irish accent.. at least twice made a reference to "amateur hour". It was almost like the Brazilian team didn't think they needed a plan, like it was settled in their minds before the match that they were going to win.
I too noticed the Brazilian fans cheering the German team at the end (Özil almost made it 8-1), maybe they just decided they had to cheer a winning team. It was either good or odd... good I think. Did you notice how serious the German team, Nauer especially, was about giving up that one point. They were serious from the beginning to the very end, like a pro sports team should be.
@ Craigb...
Sure, they were missing their Captain (suspended due to multiple yellow cards) and their best player (broken vertebrae), but they just gave up after the first goal was scored against them. Sad.Did you hear what they said about the player with the vertebrae problem? I wish I had paid more attention because I could swear the announcer said that he had a fractured vertebrae, could not feel his legs, mentioned paralysis, and then if I heard right he said he should be, and I quote, "right as rain in a month"... really? I wish my back healed like that. If he has a fractured vertebrae and cannot feel his legs I don't quite see how he will ever be "right as rain" EVER again, much less in a month.
And:
First defeat in a match that mattered on home turf since 1975 for Brazil and worst defeat in the last 94 years... I heard that too. This game ended a 62 game winning streak in "competitive matches" at home for them, and the first defeat on home field in any kind of game since 2002. I think there were several records broken in that match and by Germany, being the first team in WC history to go to the semi-finals four times in a row. They are doing something right there. Brazil needs to go back to the very beginning, to the lower schools and rec teams, figure out what is wrong and do a reset, this really should not have happened. The game should have been like the men's final at Wimbledon, not a blowout.
For sure though, to the OP... it is just a game. The thought crossed my mind, wondering if there was going to be mass suicide in Brazil. I'm glad this thread got started, it has been on my mind ever since the match. It was a bit disturbing to me to see people such an emotional mess over a game. Little kids were really bawling. It disturbed my wife more than me. I had fun with her, she was like OMG, they are crying... I was like, ha haa, I hope they show more of them crying... so I can laugh at them.
(I know, I know...)
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Yeah, I am becoming a fan but if it is OK I will call it soccer. I just cannot go with "because futball", even is a skinny legged girl is saying it.
One hour till the next match!
BTW, Bauer may be going to Manchester United. Munich and Arsenal are both interested too but Schalke is giving him up for financial reasons.
J