Nick Webster sums it up perfectly

i do not agree germany deserved to make final..

they had the easiest group of all..

then against argentina they did not deserve to advance (althought they were better in the penalties)..

germany was lucky to make it as far as they did..

Posted from  United States

germany have always been a good team, they are second in world cup championship game wins one behind brazil. so i think they deserved it.

Posted from  Canada

every team needs luck. it depends on how you seize your opportunity. i am devastated that my argentina lost, but they had their chances and didnt seize them. germany did, and they deserved to be where they are.

conragulations germany on a great world cup.

Posted from  United States

Argentinians have nothing to feel bad about, the whole world knows that they are one of the best teams in the world.

Posted from  Canada

A nice write-up of a great match.

Too bad the worldcupblog idiots have invaded yet another topic. Crawl back under your rocks, trolls!

don’t feed the troll.

I would describe group a as semi-hard, at least on paper. What’s the point, we were againts argentina, italy had to play ukraine.i just hope that klinsmann stays
he took some experienced players and a bunch of kids (5 of them are under 21) and pushed them through to the semi-final against italy.

He’s the man, the coach of the tournament, and very young, too. I can’t praise his achievements high enough, i hope he’s not resigning, because of the old-farts ruling the german fa.

Arthur,

You’re spot-on about Klinsi. Sadly ironic to see everyone and their mother coming out and begging him to stay after he was within a miscue in a US friendly from being fired a few months ago. Even though word is he’s been offered 3x what Arena was getting by the US, he’ll stay with Germany at least through Euro ‘08 (but I bet he stays through the ‘10 Cup). These are his guys, his new style for German play, and he senses the success that just slipped his grasp this time. DEFINITELY coach of the tournament.

well i think it’s probably more about his familiy-situation. even klinsmann is very good in delegating tasks, it’s a hell of a job. but he gained a huge amount of credit, right know he’s more popular than beckenbauer, well becken bauer is more respected than loved. But i think he has to talk it through with his family (pretty hot wife, btw).

you know what pisses me off, if we would haveplayed against either france or portugal yesterday, we would’ve kicked som major ass,cause right know, both suck pretty bad

Soccer has a way of imitating life, you have your ups and downs. Germany left the tournament on a high note with an excellent game where there were some dangerous moments created by both teams.

I feel that the Italians were desperate not to go to PK’s and they just poured thier hearts out onto the field during the second 15minutes of Extra Time.

Gattuso is like a tank on that field. I seem him cutting back across the field to pressure the opposing offense as well as rushing forward to assist our own.

Our team has an excellent esprit de corps and will most likely carry the day.

Well in either case, well done Germany and thanks for an excellent match.

Posted from  United States

I got to know Klinsmann since he played here for many years. He is a bizarre character very clever. He was famous for his diving…well let’s say he was thatrical not really a diver. He has some cosmopolitan attitude which is great. Surely he made a great job. In march the German team seemed very weak, he did a great job now you have a very strong team and most of all young which is always a good thing in perspective.
Just one thing I am curious about: what’s the role of Loew? I mean: is he the “gosht-writer”?

Posted from  Italy

Löw is kind of the tactical mastermind, klinsmann likes to delegate stuff. he has his fitness-guys,his scouting-guys, his pr-guy, bierhoff, who is also his link to the german fa. during previous wcs it was usual, that fa-officials stayed in the same hotel, the team did. klinsmann just banned them, they had to stay out this time, which i give him credit for, caus som of these guys were really pissed. he has a “my way or the highway”-mentalaty.which i like very much, cause his had is the first to roll, when they suck at the wc, but they didn’t……we’ll they did….but just only for two minutes

btw, its’ no coincidence that they are dressed the same for the games.its part of her team strategy, and you know what, Löw is the one who got to chose the dress, so he’s not only is tactics- but his fashion guy

have to correct myself again, it’s of course their team-strategy, not hers

ok so that button-down thing goes to Loew’s credit.
Anyway they seem a great couple we will hear from them for a long time I think. Good job and good fashion (hm well you do better in football than in fashion).

Posted from  Italy

we’ll i think they were very well dressed, no sunglasses but very italian i think.