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It was a pretty great tournament overall (except some of the referees), and I do think that the winners reflect the reality of the WC, as it were: Only one team had this total-Füssball, being great at defending, mid-field tactics, quick passes, creative goals, etc, all at once and consistently, and that team is Germany. I'm still amazed over Brazil's defensive collapses during the last two games, and Scholari's passivity in that first game, when their defence was breached in the worst of ways.

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Referee was ok, match wasn't as rough as the 2010 final I found.  Hoewedes was lucky, as was Aguero to not get a second yellow for the hit on Schweinsteiger (boy did that guy get worked on during that game).

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Referee was ok, match wasn't as rough as the 2010 final I found.  Hoewedes was lucky, as was Aguero to not get a second yellow for the hit on Schweinsteiger (boy did that guy get worked on during that game).

 

Ref-ing football matches always seems a bit like herding cats to me. The good ones manage it with a deft touch, and that sometimes means letting some of the rough stuff get by. It's a contact sport.

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I was in Berlin yesterday. Holy hell was i ever at the right place.

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I was in Berlin yesterday. Holy hell was i ever at the right place.

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  :lol:

 

But this raises a good point, a country can truly transform itself with the right political will. In 70 years Germany has become one of the most  powerful and influential countries in the region, and the world, despite losing two world wars.

 

Well done Germany on winning the world cup :dancing:

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I was in Berlin yesterday. Holy hell was i ever at the right place.

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Change the flag to the german one and the situation wouldn't have been much different from how it was at Alexanderplatz :p

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"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

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I was in Berlin yesterday. Holy hell was i ever at the right place.

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Change the flag to the german one and the situation wouldn't have been much different from how it was at Alexanderplatz :p

 

 

What? Everyone was wearing several watches?

 

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