Burritos meet the panzers...
Can someone link me to a world cup thread. Haven’t been able to find one.
Brazillians waxed!
Makes US showing against Germany all the more impressive.
That was a beat down.
Rioting in Brazil will start in 3...2...1...
Guardian play by play of the massacre.
Brazil v Germany: World Cup 2014 semi-final – live!
'90+1 min: It's a measure of how downright German the Germans are that Manuel Neuer and his defenders were absolutely furious with each other for allowing Brazil to score that late goal.....'
This would be akin to the Green Bay Packers scoring five touchdowns (and all the extra points) on the San Francisco 49ers in the 1st quarter of an NFC Championship game to go to the Super Bowl. Game over almost immediately.
One German player named Miroslav Klose has even set the record for most total World Cup goals.
Brazil got beat like Muhammad’s wife—the ugly, mouthy one.
Awesome. Go Euroweenies!
Ve beat zeez untermensch, ja.
It's still early in Brazil's large cities...let's see what happens.
I had high hopes for Columbia and their coach Jose Pekerman. Not that I know that much about them, but I relished the prospect of the media saying "Pekerman" over and over again.
Pekerman isn't actually German, though, and the country isn't actually spelled "Columbia." Maybe it's just as well they're out. I still remember when one of their players put the ball in the wrong net and got killed for it.
I guess Brazil i not the same without the famous Pele.
I was at the 1970 world cup in Mexico city when Brazil beat Italy.
Y'all might remember the Redskins' (can I say that here?) perfect quarter vs. Denver in Sort-of-Superbowl Whatever. Doug Williams, a solid journeyman quarterback, was surrounded by a good defense, the posse, and the Hogs, and had a great season. Against Denver, the 'Skins came up with a perfect second quarter and scored 35 points. They could do no wrong, Denver could do no right, and boom. That's what happened today for a twelve minute stretch in Germany vs. Brazil. It's beautiful, scary, and eerie to watch.
Of the sports with which I'm most familiar, basketball is the most prone to this sort of thing. You are plugging along on a pretty competitive game, the score one minute is 36-32, and the next time you look up, it's suddenly 58-34. The big difference in basketball is that the coach can call a time out to try to break the momentum. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.
In the ten years I've watched my daughters play soccer (ok, not quite at the World Cup level ....), I've seem my older daughter's team, a reasonably competitive travel team, lose one game that looked as ugly. Fortunately, they've had perhaps three games that broke big the other way. That's over ten years. It happens. It's probably rarer in soccer than most other sports because of the dearth of scoring, but there are exceptions. We saw one today. History ... and I only wonder how much Germany could have scored if they hadn't called off the dogs after the fourth goal.
After the 5th Goal, the Germans took their foot off the gas. Smart not to expend too much energy or risk getting carded with the Final coming up on Sunday.
If The Netherlands v. Argentina match on Wednesday goes to extra time, the Germans will have a pretty easy time of it on Sunday with an extra day of rest and little energy expended today.
The German goalkeeper was brilliant again today.