[nickcarraway]

Angela Merkel said, "see this why we can't have anything nice."

[Billthedrill]

“The investigation was terminated without result,” Niersbach added.

"Zis is soccer, after all," he added.

[PapaNew]

I was a varsity soccer player in high school and college and I didn't watch a minute of the World Cup because of their ratification of Brazil's "cleansing" of Rios streets by killing the street children.

Shoulda been boycotted IMO and the World Cup is definitely flawed like the trophy.

[Resettozero]

Who would ever have known unless they told. It was a massive blob of golden-like something that looked unfinished anyway. I thought the trophy was a joke.

[cloudmountain]

Angela Merkel said, "see this why we can't have anything nice."

Lol.

The Germans DO make nice cars.
They WILL fix the trophy and make it better. They would be able to RUN OVER IT WITH a tank and it would survive.

Do you think they got a little drunk? :o)

The Germans also take EXCELLENT care of their land. I saw that all throughout the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany). It's been some years since I was there but I don't think THAT has changed.

[cloudmountain]

The Germans have this HUGE liter of beer that the men drink. It is the biggest slug of beer I've ever seen. They even have corn beer.

I do have some German heritage but I never did like beer!

[lee martell]

Oops! Entschuldigen sie! Sie rutschte.
Oops! Excuse me!, It slipped.

[ozzymandus]

Big deal. Look at the Stanley Cup.

[dfwgator]

Were they partying at Vinnie Paul’s house?

Seriously, I’m sure The Stanley Cup has gone through a hell of a lot more than the World Cup Trophy has.

[DoodleDawg]

Is the World Cup Trophy like the Stanley Cup where it gets passed from winner to winner?

[KarlInOhio]

“small piece of it was chipped off”.

The trophy immediately fell on the ground and screamed for five minutes, after which it jumped up and returned to play.

[Kenny Bunk]

The Argentines turn out to be the class of this soccer charade.

The Argentine Team: Each player on the Argie team has donated his World Cup purse(134,000 Euros) to a foundation that is building a Cancer Clinic in BA.

APPLAUSE

[BBell]

“Don’t worry about it,” he added. “We have specialists who can fix it.”