World champion in Brazil in the most important and most popular sport worldwide. Respect for the brazilians, very kind people. Gratulations to the argentinian team, very taff final match. Germany, first european team able to get the title in america. USA also great fighters. Respect. They will get stronger. Germany is the champion! Deutschland ist Weltmeister!
Congrats to Germany and to winning the endurance test. And to Gotze for the thrill of his young life.
In a thread where the title clearly shows it is talking about soccer, you made a conscious decision to make a post saying how much you don't care about the sport.... Seriously? Seriously.
At least people score in Football. SUPER BOWL XLVIII: 43-8 WORLD CUP: 1-0 I'm not a fan of either, but still.
Congratulations to Germany. They earned their victory. Argentina was a good team who might have won on another day. Today was not their day.
Too bad the Western Hemisphere couldn't win this one, but congratulations. Tremendous skill. Terrific match. Can't say that the Germans didn't deserve to win. Long live young Gotze, and Klose, too. And Messi, and all the other players.
SUPER BOWL XLVIII: 43-8 Let's see... in world football that would be like 6 touchdowns to one td. In soccer scores that would be 6-1. Wait, didn't one team win a semi-final with a score like that? Yeah, it was Germany over Brazil, 7-1 or 49-7 in touchdown football. And Germany didn't even have to take multiple breaks to pull some plan out of their collective butts.
I was all for Germany. Argentina was playing (as usual) the ugliest football you can think of. They came to play rugby not football and the referee was helping them. The Argentinian coach told the players before the game: Forget about the ball, go for the legs. No one wins games without legs. Congrats Germany, Great football Great team. What about the rockets ? You ask ? Thank you. I was just returning from my kids dance performance. Full theater packed with happy and proud families. Great show. Iron Dome did the rest. I think it is about time the Gazan relax a little and start to have fun from this summer.
Congratulations to Germany. The win is of course not personal, but a win of the whole nation. It started with the system of football schooling, continued with the rise of football clubs where young german players have serious competition and acquire experience of dozens of foreign stars and ultimately it is crowned by a stable international team which is really a machine. The goal scored by Gotze is a very nice symbol that he can take after Miroslav Klose. Bastian made a lot for the win. I wonder how a person can have so much strength and endurance. But mostly it is a win of the whole team of the whole nation. Even Messi under such circumstances is helpless. Hope that Germany will get even better within the next 4 years and the other teams would get closer to such a terrific example of teamplay. It was a nice show which will definetely stay in history of football.
Spaciba Yazverg. My personal favorite is Boateng. That guy, so modest and reliable fighting. I wonder why americans call that sport soccer. Football was created in England and it was called football. What is called football by americans I think I would call "american rugby". I hope that football will be established more in the USA: Klinsmann did start to create the german world-championteam team in 2006! He will keep on working in the USA. Football is defenetely to me as to the hugde majority worldwide the most exiting great sport. To every nation involved, there are unforgetable moments: To germans and english for example the "Wembley goal" 1966 (all english and all germans do know immidiately what I am talking about, to the english and argentinians "the hand of god" - no englishmen and no argentinian does not know what I do talk about, legends as ZICO, Pélé, Maradonna, Beckenbauer, Dino Zoff, Cruyff, Zidane, Platini, Sokrates, Bobby Charlton... ...every kid does know them from 1954 to 2014... I am not that certain about american rugby. I do not jugde...simply with respect to the US I politely (and I do mean it that way) want to make clear that sport no 1 is football in the way I mean it: Fussball. I would very much like the USA to learn more about it; it would be great. Teams as Brazil 1986, 1998, 2002...I will never forget...my father told me about Germany - Italy in 1970 and Germany - England 1966...so many great games. That world championship in Brazil was a nice one.
I was hoping for it to go all the way to another shoot out but extra time was still a fitting end to the final, USA will be back for the Olympics...(*)(*)(*)(*)ing Belgium lol
Ganz genau! Was waren dasz für ein "Blut-schoss"?! Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu Ihrer ausgezeichneten Sieg! Germany has every reason to be proud for itself -- on the Fussball field, and everywhere else!
I am no fan of soccer. But, I do know how the game is played. Brazil tried to out "thug" Germany with all the physical shots they could get away with. There should've been at least 2, if not 3, Red Cards. Germany did not impress me all that much, as they have shown in the past, they did not display their ability to spend the majority of the time in Brazil's backfield. I was impressed with the officials. They clearly showed no bias to either side and, IMHO, did a decent job. My view of the World Cup in general is this: World Cup? Nah. Calgary Stampede! While American and world media turned to Brazil, a whole lot of people had their eyes turned to the north to Calgary, Canada. Over one million people paid for tickets to enjoy the event. We have a couple of major rodeos here in Vegas so it's nice to see just what attendance this even got. And Canadian participants shone. One topped the bull riders, another won the calf roping, yet another finishes second in steer wrestling [who in their right mind would even consider doing this?], saddle bronc champ and a couple more.
Well done, Deutschland. They had a team that could beat you several different ways and Messi was not exactly on his game.
You must have to be really brain dead to sit through a match that takes four hours to play a 60 minute game.
USA, Australia and Algeria were a credit to the tournament having all contributed greatly to it. Tim Howard, in particular, was immense. I hope now that the world's greatest and most beautiful game will finally get the media coverage in the States it deserves. Personally, it was one of the greatest world cup tournaments I have had the privilege to watch. Congratulations to the German team for their outstanding achievement.
Not a lot of thought in that was there? ...you think because the nfl gives multiple points for a single score it's high scoring?...because it also awards mulitple points even when it can't score (fieldgoal)) it's high scoring?...
of that 60 minutes there's actually only 12.5 minutes playing time and of that half of either ream is sitting on a bench...