It’s official: Frings is suspended for the semifinal against Italy

roaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Posted from  Italy

You know how we dealt with Bruno.

Already the first shot was deadly.

3 shots.

3:0, kind of.

Posted from  Germany

Because Italy:Australia was the first, maybe the second football match they’ve ever watched.
They’re convinced that if you have more ball possesion you deserve to win (no matter if they played 45 min 11 against 10 for un unfair red card and they didn’t shot on goal once).
We are famous for cheating?
So why Fifa didn’t considered to disqualify Frings ’till media focused the attention to his punch?
Because they wanted to save the hosting country, that’s way!
So stop crying,
we have Nesta missing for 4 matches and none here is worried, you want to win the world cup and you are crying for Frings? I mean FRINGS???
AH AH AH AH AH AH

Posted from  Italy

Rolf you are wrong you missed the shots, I am in Santo Domingo as i said before.

Posted from  Italy

@ frank … what do you mean who is famous for cheating .. do i have to remind you that about 12 months ago (or maybe a little longer) a couple german officials went to jail for Fixing matches???

Posted from  Australia

Maradona flays the Germans (4 Jul 2006 05:23 GMT)

Argentina football great Diego Maradona doesn’t think much of the host team at the World Cup, saying the Germans don’t have much going for them apart from brawn.

“They don’t know how to play and up until now they haven’t shown anything, but they are physically very strong,” Maradona told an Italian radio show, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.

“If Italy doesn’t forget its quality and manages to take the lead, Germany will be in difficulty because the Azzurri defend very well, 10 times better than Argentina.,’ he added.

Germany, which ousted Argentina in a quarterfinal penalty shootout, meets Italy in Dortmund in the semifinals.

With his native Argentina out, Maradona has found another team to cheer for.

“I’m supporting Italy,” the former Napoli player said. “I really liked the Azzurri against Ghana, that’s the team I want to see.”

Posted from  United States

Very unlucky to play without Frings he’s a fantastic player, luved his goal against Costa Rica, one of the the strike’s of the World Cup. I can’t believe how fifa can find this sort of thing but can’t pull up dives or head butts which are far worse in my book, caus the punch didn’t win the game for anybody, he probably could’ve just done it at the pub or something instead but oh well he’s the one who has to pay for it, at the end of the day. How UNLUCKY, Germany should feel very hard done by really. BTW Nesta aka fag, protecting the host country my ass, protecting Italy more like it, matchfixing,diving cheats.

Posted from  Australia

Report in a German newspaper that an Australian fan has been charged with assaulting an Italian football player. The fan was 20 metres away from the incident when it happend and the Italian player suffered multiple fractures and concussion …he recovered 2 minutes later!

dear Jewish guy…

If my aunty had balls she’d be my uncle…

dear massimo

you really shouldn’t bring up WW11…I guess if the Germans are winning at half time, half of your team will cross to our side? by the way, Hitler was Austrian!
As for Grossso- expect to see him at Beijing Olympics in that famous Italian diving team

Posted from  Australia

http://www.football365.com/news/story_181152.shtml

Posted from  Australia

@marco

beside the italian famous diving history and players like Inzaghi.

it is always a negative thing for football as a sport when italy wins looking at the way italy played in the last decades.

Some people post that the italian system is more offense compared to the past but you could play a 0:0:10 system and you would still play ugly defensive counter football combined with the best football acters and the best divers.

Posted from  Germany

hey ‘jewish guy’ …. sorry if you don’t like Germany …. but they deserved to win ….
and i dont’t see any team from Israel playing …..
so why don’t you go and shoot some kids in a paletinian refugee camp or whaterver it is you guys do for fun … but stop talking soccer

Posted from  Germany

If you read some of these entries, you’d think computers do a lot for keeping aggressive young males of the streets *in a lot of countries*. I don’t remember when I found so much racist stereotypes on one page. Except for Slartibartfast and a few exceptions, a whole lot of you are producing only stuff that makes me want to claw your eyes out. And yeah, that kind of fans make your team look *s o o o* much better to the rest of the world.

As to Frings (sorry in cases of deja-vu):
FIFA got new video footage from SKY ITALY that is supposed to show him directing a punch towards Cruz in the middle of the brawl. Cruz himself says: “Frings didn’t punch me.”
Frings is not the coolheaded type by the way, more the rocker of the team, and not exactly the reflective type. If that’s what the video shows, he has to live with the consequences, and everyone, fans too, has to accept that this is a game, and this game has rules for behaviour on the field even after the whistle has blown. That someone else isn’t sticking to them is no excuse to follow their example. And who filmed it doesn’t matter at all.

That said, I’m keeping my finger crossed for the German team. Is that an offense already to some of you? Ooooooh, and naive me thought the nice thing about this sport was that everyone was allowed to identify with their own team, and celebrate them, along the motto: “We’re so great! Sure, you’re great too! But we are, too! And now, let’s party anyway!” All your WW2 references tell me I may have been wrong.

Posted from  Germany

Corrections: Makes me want to claw *my* eyes out, although this way it might also work.

Posted from  Germany

@ Slartibartfast
I strongly agree with you dear football lover, but it seems that you were a bit harsh on Bobby, since you did not read what Jewish guy was writing on other channels, but yes of course Bobby was a bit angry and we all missed the point that this is a lovely game that we all adore, it would have been more fair if you would look up what the Jewish guy was saying. And by the Semitic does not necessarily means Jewish, it also means Arabs especially Mesopotamians
Best of luck to Germany.

Posted from  Lebanon

5 hours till the game

Posted from  Australia

Bruno,
no German hunters failing.
Sure got you.
What is sitting in Santo Domingo is a spook.

And we cab handle spooks, too.

For example Argentinian soccer greatness.

Enjoy your sips

dear spook

Posted from  Germany

I truly hope Germany goes through to final, but if they are not I am still proud to say that I’m supporting one of the great team in the tournament. Anyone who thinks that they are not talented TEAM (please note the emphasize on the ‘team’)is either jealous or just plain blind.

Posted from  Ireland

Thanks Footballer

Posted from  United Kingdom

Hola

Posted from  United Kingdom

To Jason M. Brilliant posts. Brrrrrrrillliant.

Posted from  United States

[...] Good afternoon, friends, we’re coming to you live from our swealtering apartment, where we plan on watching Italy upset Germany. Yup, that’s right, we’ve reversed our pick. Much of it has to do with the Germans now having to play without defensive midfielder Torsten Frings for throwing a punch in the aftermath of Germany’s lucky penalty kick victory over Argentina. American fans – the few still paying attention the world’s greatest sporting event – consider this sweet justice for 2002, when Frings appeared to use his hands to prevent a goal in Germany’s 1-0 quarterfinal win in 2002. [...]

MC Krakow, you are insultingly stupid!
If you would have a clue of history, beside your ww2-videos – you would know that many polish imigrated into germany in the 19th century (for you: that is 18xx). So half of the “Ruhrgebiet” consists of polish names!

You are the last person on earth to decide what’s a national disgrace for germany.
By the way: It isn’t, we (yes I consider me a german, even my familiy moved to germany just in the 1980th) are proud of the integration of different cultures in our society, which reflects in our national team.

You as an US-citizen should welcome this!

And when the polish are cheering about “their” guys – why not! It’s fun, that’s what a worldcup is about!

And JewishGuy – YOU are the kind of person you hate!

Jacek

Posted from  Germany

see…i told you…no frings…no power in the midfield…and Germany lose…he should blame himself. ANyway, congratulations to Italy for daring to go forward on the Germans, and I lost my predictions that said Germany will win. Frings is a very good midfielder at least, even if Germany lose when he is playing at least more attack support and defending by Frings, but during the match with Italy, Italy is the most dangerous while hitting the post twice and only to find lucky Lehmann to be beaten.

Posted from  Malaysia

Jacek,

It’s a bummer to find out how stupid I am. But, thanks for informing me.

If I did, in fact, know anything about history, I would know that Poland’s history is profoundly complicated. At present, for example, Poland exists.

Nobody immigrated from Poland into Germany in the 18th century, by the way.

Poland did not exist from 1795 until the end of WW I.

It was then on the map until it was bulldozed flat during the course of WW 2.

At the end of WW 2, Churchill and FDR allowed 1. the Germans and then 2. Stalin to erase the entirety of Warsaw and any vestige of Polish military.
They did nothing to intervene and they knew about it the entire time.

Then, when the war was officially over, England and The US gave Poland to Stalin – it’s as simple as that.

Then you have from the end of WW 2 until 1989. In a technical sense, Poland did exist and have political boundaries. Practically speaking, it was a Soviet-owned source of free stuff, which was trucked out of Poland and into Russia non-stop.

Since 1989, it has existed on its own again. If you take out the 20 years in the early 20th century, this is the first time that it has really existed since about the French Revolution.

I have not been there post 1989. I was there twice before then. I am not saying those trips really add anything to my credibility – it’s rather that I don’t know what it’s like now.

I would have been trashing Russia if they had made it to the World Cup. Russia has done far more harm, over the long haul, than Germany.

On that note – onto the stage walks Zbigniew Brzezinski – from Warsaw, btw. He picks Jimmy Carter to be on The Trilateral Commission, which puts Carter on the map. Carter becomes president. Having a particular dislike for Russia, ZB talks Carter (and other countries) into supporting the mujaheddin, in order to stick it to Russia and suck them into their own version of Viet Nam.

ZB’s hatred of Russia paved the way for the mujaheddin, their pal Mr. Bin Laden, and – well, you know how the story goes from there.

I must, again, apologize for being so stupid and clueless about Poland’s history.

Please find it in your heart to forgive me and my ignorance.

Posted from  United States

Jewish guy learn how to spell and then you can talk smack.

Posted from  United States