Ascona Diary: The Lago Embargo

June 6th, 2008 | By: Jan | 6 Comments »

Kuranyi, Frings and Co.The German national team had promised to go into hiding in their base-camp and they kept their word. As mentioned in the other post, they built a large fence around their hotel at the Lago Maggiore, and it’s doing its job so far. Only little snippets of news are bubbling to the surface, and for some of them we have to rely on the DFB website to mercifully publish them. Like the short note, that the Mannschaft had played a U18 side from Tessin and beat them 8-0. The DFB’s own DFB.TV even offers amateurishly assembled match highlights. Klose and Gomez both scored twice, while Neuville, Kuranyi, Podolski and Hitzelsperger bagged one goal each.

In other good news, no one is injured or at least we presume that this is the case, until the DFB website announces otherwise. And to conclude this post, there actually was a bit of team internal gossip that made it to the press…

Philipp Lahm splashed onto the international football scene with his opening goal of the World Cup in 2006. Some say he’s been resting on his laurels since. But there really isn’t anyone, who can currently seriously compete for his place in Germany’s starting eleven; where he’ll almost certainly start on the right flank. Philipp Lahm also ruled the ping pong table in the team hotel two years ago. And he admitted, that he’s been resting on his laurels here as well. And while Arne Friedrich couldn’t beat Lahm to his place on the right side, he’s now established himself as the new king of table tennis. Lahm: “I hardly improved my game. Arne on the other hand has become even stronger and can hardly be beaten anymore.”



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Username By diana | June 7th, 2008 at 3:53 am
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‘Lahm: “I hardly improved my game. Arne on the other hand has become even stronger and can hardly be beaten anymore.”’
So I see. Lahm was the king of table tennis two years ago! No wonder I was reading in an article of he was saying about how good Arne Friedrich is.

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Username By JanJanos | June 8th, 2008 at 3:43 am
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Good Luck to Germany National Team for EURO 2008 campaign…

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Username By makan | June 8th, 2008 at 4:37 am
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I,m Iranian boy.
I love germany. Viva Gramany
Germany 5 : 0 Poland

Iranian people Loved Germany Teams.

Germany team is Champion

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Username By McDes | June 8th, 2008 at 6:39 am
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GERMANY is the best team of the WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m Frensh boy,
I, Love GERMANY

http://cchhaarrllyy56.skyrock.com/

GERMANY is Number ONE !!!
GO GO GO “Manshaft” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Username By Nishit | June 8th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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The Germans are decently strong, but I’m really interested to know whether they are going to play 2 up top, or just Klose, and if they play 2, will it be Podolski or Gomez?
Either way, they should easily top the group.
Cheers ;)
http://www.troopersblog.blogspot.com

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Username By Nick | June 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
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Flanke-Kopfball-Tor,
so stellen wir uns unsere Mannschaft vor,
Favoriten das sind wir,
Schwarz-Rot-Gold,
wir stehen zu dir,
aus den rängen schallt es im Chor
Deutschland vooooor!

Als Turnier-Mannschafft bekannt,
holten wir den Pokal schon oft ins Land
und wir Fans als 12-Mann
zeigen was man vereint erreichen kann!
wir stehen auf und singen unser Lied
das unsere Mannschaft wieder siegt!

jetzt geht’s los!

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