Posted on 06/25/2014 11:39:16 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
When the World Cup pairings were announced in December, the date U.S. Coach Juergen Klinsmann circled most prominently on his calendar was June 26, the group-play final against Germany.
That's the country Klinsmann, the player, led to a World Cup title in 1990 and the one Klinsmann, the coach, led to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup. So playing against his homeland in his first World Cup as the American coach was something he both feared and embraced.
Now that the game is at hand, though, Klinsmann says he's feeling another emotion: joy.
"This is going to be so much fun," he said Tuesday. "I'm so excited."
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I'm more worried about Ghana scoring highly on Portugal.
I hope Ronaldo has a helmet.
Thanks for posting articles. This could be a historic day
Boateng and Muntari sent home, booted off the squad.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28035928
Probably 2 of their 3 or 4 best.
So how Ghana reacts is a question. They could come out and stink things up, hasn’t not only their FA been questioned over match-fixing, one of those African teams was holding up payments to their players. Maybe it was Ghana.
The Germans still need a win or tie, too, let's not forget. How about we settle for 0-0 and go out for some beers afterwards?
Sure, trust your opponent, leave your chances at advancing up to your opponent. Sounds like a winner to me. Forget past wrongs they did as well. They seem trustworthy.
2002 handball denying a USA goal, not seen or penalized by the referee. Should be awarded a red card and penalty kick.
In fact, I hope Algeria can advance and defeat Russia. It’s well known Austria and Germany colluded in 1982 in a draw to eliminate Algeria. Algeria then would be most likely facing Germany.
Beckenbauer, now there's a surprise.
Interesting development.
he Greeks are going mad, the Greeks are going mad! Socrates scores, got a beautiful cross from Archimedes. The Germans are disputing it.Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.
That’s not “Chewy” Luis you’re referring to there. LOL!
Suaraz banned for FIFA from 9 matches and 4 moths of all soccer activity.
A punishment with some teeth in it. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
Some are saying because of the appeals process, Suarez could still play in the round of 16 games. That’s bad news if that loophole exists. They may not be able to hear his appeal until next week. That’s rotten if so. He should NOT be on the pitch Saturday for their next game, I don’t care who the opponent is.
http://us.soccerway.com/international/world/world-cup/2014-brazil/round-of-16/r16352/
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