The party of the mighty German national football team seems to be over. Tonight the Czechs humiliated them with a triumphant 0:3 in Munich's gleaming Allianz Stadium. The German team already qualified for the European Footballl Cup when it tied with Ireland- 0:0- in last Saturday's game. Now it's the Czechs turn to qualify for the much coveted Cup to be held in Switzerland and Austria next summer.
Although playing in front of a home audience, the German team didn't even score a single goal. They played so badly and so uncoordinated that the underrated Czechs managed already to shoot 2 goals during the first half of the game. On the second half, the fans hoped that their team would recover it's bearing and shoot at least one face-saving goal. But fat chance, the now demoralized Germans couldn't anymore hold their ground against the fanstastically-coordinated Bohemian onslaught. The highly-energized Czechs scored again.
It's certainly a wake-up call for the highly-paid, highly regarded German 11 (and their coach, of course) as they are fondly called by their adoring fans- which include no less than Frau Angela Merkel, the country's first woman Chancellor.
Tomorrow, German newspapers and TV pundits will have a heyday analyzing the game. Some of them, for sure, will call for heads to roll. German pride- if not manliness- is no less at stake here.
Meanwhile the German women football team (less paid, and less honored than their male counterpart) still basks in glory as the reigning FIFA World Cup title holder, for the second time in a row. They defeated their challenger Brazil 2:0 in Beijing last month. Hep-hep hurray! Hep-hep Hurray!
(photos all courtesy of the internet :-))
38 Kommentare:
German female soccer players kicks ass huh...
Jack, you are really becoming a german... :)
it seems in football, per capita GDP is not a factor in winning... it has totally democratized. basketball will also go the same route ..
Tsk. A superpower down -- trend in sports nowadays. But when can Filipinos put up a World Cup-worthy team? Seriously.
yez, they could really kick it like Beckham, Tyler, maybe even better!
my dear bong, I'd been watching soccer- and have kicked the ball myself before- since my Marawi days. So stop teasing me becoming a German. Zum Wohl!
you hit the pot there, dave. The sensation last year's world cup here were not the usual suspects but the small African countries like what- Tógo? But of course, football's strings are still being mainly pulled somewhere between the Rhine river and the Alpine mountains.
yes, I'd been wondering about that since years, too, swerver. Our physique would do better in soccer than in basketball. Plus we're agile, plus we're in-born team players, plusplusplus...
team players? i dont think pinoys are team players. we seem to excel in individual games like boxing, shooting, billiards, mixed martial arts. but im not really sure...
ah, they may pull all the strings they want, but for as long as anybody has the chance to win fair and square its fine with me. haha!
& sipa (sport rin yun diba?)
he..he.. dave, did I mistake our bayanihan spirit as sign that we also can play well in a team? You make me insecure now...
of course, sipa takraw is a sport played not only in the Phils. but in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia as well. It is also definitely a team sport.
i think he has a point. we indeed excel mostly in individual and more specialized sports or games if you include bowling and billiards.
i dont know really... honest.
okey, is that the reason why soccer never got off the ground back home? Martin who plays football was a little bit disappointed not to see a single soccer field when we went home last august.
we have more basketball courts than barangay halls in the country.. but i think we have more cockfight arenas than soccer fields... really bad... soccer is more popular in the West Visayas area... in Bacolod and Ilo-ilo.
yes, I remember that my Ilongo friends from So. Cotabato excelled in soccer when we were still college. Soccer was also the sport of choice of my de Molay bros in MSU before so I kicked the ball with them from time to time. Paextra, extra goalie lang before because I'm not really the sportler type- now I have to learn the game to be able to bond with my growing son.
yeah, the ilonggos are good at it. remember alex casiple? he is good.
And Wawols, too! Btw, got any idea where he is now?
and how about you? You're also a G.I. LOL
oh....i guess it's not going to happen in our time. at this moment, majority of the population is more concerned about surviving. who cares about chasing and kicking a ball in a huge field? this is the only sport where almost the whole world is crazy about, yet not popular among filipinos.
alex is now with the corporate world doing IT stuff. different guy he is now.
im not good at it. im an absentee ilonggo. lol!
I know where Alex is now. I met him and his family in Davao last July but I asked you about Wawa Castillon. He's a kababayan of yours, too, right?
wawa?! yes, i remember. eons ago, i heard he was teaching in local high school in lake cebu but im not sure about this info. havent heard about him since then.
come, Greg, many African countries are poorer than us. But they're beginning to show promise in the game.
Jack, I've watched the game, and can't believe the mistake they were doing, as if they don't know who'll kick first..
It's really a pity that the main players were all injured, I believe that's one reason. Iba talagang pag first priorities ang nasa field..
I know what you mean, Nona! So, Ballack was injured? I saw him just sitting on the bench.
He is still recuperating..ewan ko sa kanila, that's what they say..ang tagal na rin na hindi naglalaro si Ballack..
Schneider once said that he's luck to have this genes which seem not to get injury, pero, he is one of those recuperating, like Miro Klose, Lahm..si Lehman naman, got 2 yellow cards..
sayang talaga, I hope they'd recover well from that..:)
I had a seminar last weekend so I wasn't able to watch the game between Ireland and Germany. So, I only heard that Lehmann got 2 yellow cards, but for what?
hear that! yes, so many miracles are written in sports pages everyday. we poor pinoys can hope for some xerox there. the economic and political sides are still too far-fetch from a sunshine. but also got to give hope there still.. what, miracle? right?
oh yeah...you're right. a couple or more african countries qualified for world cup. but they are able to make it because it's a popular sport there. i am just wondering why it has never been popular in pinas.
yung game was hot..so all defense, active sila, pati si Lehmann over protective, he went out so far to get the ball, that wasn't his job anymore...this I saw, but the first one, I didn't, baka similar situation..
which national team will win Euro 2008 ? ? :-p:-p
of course, the Germans, Francescomio!
hahahahah really in germany people belive it ? :-p:-p:-p
I am Joke ...well germany is sure a strong team and it coul dbe one of the next winner .....about italy ...naaa ...rarely ...very rarely a team that won the last world cup get an international success ...it same a not written law , but expereince say that ...
Anyway ....i think that Spain has good chance :-p:-p
hmmm.... the Dutch will wipe the Spaniards out, and then the British will wipe the Dutch out... and the Germans will wipe out the Brits. As for the Italians... well, the French will take care of them :-)
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