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Germany wins 3-0

June 20th, 2006 | By: Harvey Morrell | 20 Comments »

Germany 3, Ecuador 0. Germany wins Group A and meets the runner-up of Group B.

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By Stuart | June 20th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

Congrats on winning your group! Although the Ecuador side wasn’t their A team, Germany still looked very good…a nice tune-up for the next round. I’ve got a good feeling about the hosts…

Now if the US can find a way past Ghana and get a little help from Italy…

By California Germany Fan | June 21st, 2006 at 2:41 am

Awesome, Germany!!! Great team with great team spirit and a progressive coach…

Posted from United States

By Tom | June 21st, 2006 at 3:47 am

Definitely Germany’s best performance so far. Sweden will be tougher opposition, but I think the Germans will go through.

Posted from Australia

By German | June 21st, 2006 at 4:16 am

Way to go germany!!!!!!! this goes out to my main man ballack

Posted from Canada

By adbullatis | June 21st, 2006 at 5:25 am

That was very suprised the Germany got 3 and Ecuador got 0 i was very happy i did not sleep yesterday to watch it when it finnished Germany and Ecuador goal i sleeped.

Posted from Australia

By steve | June 21st, 2006 at 6:17 am

Germany looked awesome today! Best in decades, I thought. Go Deutchland!

Watched the England/Sweden match as well…I dunno, seems lucky that the English don’t have to face the Germans just yet!

Posted from Canada

By Craig | June 21st, 2006 at 6:50 am

Germany looked good but you can see they’re being coached by Klinsmann - he’s taught them how to dive and appears to have included diving as a part of his world cup strategy. You just have to touch a German player that’s running with the ball and he’ll fall over.
Pity about that.

By kai | June 21st, 2006 at 7:53 am

love the german team! since years the best german team by far!
great shooting and nice leg work.
and there is no “diving” in the german team! ever watched an italy game?

cheers

Posted from Canada

By shrawan | June 21st, 2006 at 8:36 am

congratulations…well done…

Posted from India

By Charlie | June 21st, 2006 at 11:20 am

Congratulations to the German team. They really deserved to win the poule!!
Actually, posted on http://www.fedexshow.com , there are some really funny videos (3D animated films involving witty cavemen) with commentaries on the match! Enjoy.

Posted from France

By Craig | June 21st, 2006 at 12:39 pm

No diving in the German team??? I saw at least 6 incidents in last night’s game that can be classed as diving - if you have it recorded, watch it again and count. But be honest with yourself when if watch it again.
Have you ever watched Klinnsman in his day? He must class as the biggest cheat ever in professional football. The guy’s a disgrace to Germany.

By SoCal | June 21st, 2006 at 7:48 pm

Germany loves Klinsmann. What are you talking about, Craig?

Posted from United States

By Slartibartfast | June 21st, 2006 at 9:33 pm

@Craig

Do you really think, Klinsmann would have become so popular in the Premier League, if he really was ‘the biggest cheat ever in professional football’?

Honestly, if the German team is diving all the time, why didn’t they get a single yellow card in three games for doing so?

Posted from Germany

By SoCal | June 21st, 2006 at 10:56 pm

Craig probably watch water polo and got confused.

Posted from United States

By Rol Habich | June 22nd, 2006 at 12:38 am

Come on Craig, what’s the matter with you? You can’t be serious. Talk it over with your wife, will you?

Posted from Germany

By German | June 22nd, 2006 at 11:27 am

Hey Craig …..
Germany play 3 good Games and Klinsmann was a top goalgetter in his days ….
Craig why don`t you go and watch the game again …..
and then you will see that Germany was just the better team and deserved to win

Posted from Germany

By Siegy | June 22nd, 2006 at 12:57 pm

Diving is a problem in football everywhere. Enough said.

Klinsmann is certainly not a well known diver and if there is anything negative to say about him, it’s that he lives in California rather than Germany - this has German fans and press somewhat upset, but the man knows football and that is all that really matters.

Posted from Canada

By Harvey | June 22nd, 2006 at 5:12 pm

Yes, Klinsmann was a well-know diver in his day (Siegy, if you doubt it, just Google Klinsmann and diving). Doesn’t have anything to do with Germany’s victory against Ecuador, however. Looks like die Mannschaft is getting better each game. Let’s hope the defense can continue to do the job against Sweden.

Posted from United States

By goose | June 23rd, 2006 at 4:29 am

Klinsmann’s nickname in England was U-BOOT, guess why my german friends.. but dont think the german team are any special than other teams and defenitly dive less than f.i. Portugal or Italie..

getting a bit worried about your team my dear neighbours, you’re not as bad as the last couple of times around. Sweden will be no problem im sure,

hope we meet soon
greetz

WIJ HOUDEN VAN ORANJE

Posted from Netherlands

By ed | June 30th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

I’m an Ecuador fan, and I’ll be the first to admit that Germany deserved to win that match. However, they are definitely divers. Today’s match with Argentina was horrible, watching players from both sides flop all over the field and roll around in mock pain. Both sides have enough talent to win without all the dramatics, but resort to cheating anyway.

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