What? Penalty or not?
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What? Penalty or not?
Another crappy referee, that was penalty : mad:
Well, and Busquets :andrea:Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
The German commentators aren't moaning though... :dozey:Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Busquets? And all the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
Has Jose paid off this ref as well?
They know nothing about football :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
Or the Guardian
Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid - live! | Football | guardian.co.uk
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So, should Borussia Dortmund have got a penalty for that Varane challenge on Reus? To borrow a phrase from Little Britain: replay says no. It quite clearly shows that there was no foul - if anything, Reus clipped Varane's legs and went down looking for it.
Ollie Kahn also says no :pQuote:
Originally Posted by pino
Not as much as RM guys. No team, sadly, is free of divers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
Judging by how this ref blew his whistle on times when there was no fault, that should have been a penalty.
und? Tooor !! :p
kein Abseits !
Klassseeeee !
Weltklasse !!!!
Yeeeees ! :bounce:
Isn't Lewandowski also going to Pep's Bayern ? :p
Hopefully Ronaldo and Jose choke on that.
Spain don't stand a chance in Brasil :p
He's on Fergies list to replace Rooney.Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
I reckon Hoeness has enough cash stashed away to sort that :p :andrea:
clear penalty this time :D
Lewandowski 4 - Cristiano 1 :p
Incredible
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
CRAZY semi finals this time.
di Maria in... get ready for some diving :p
What a great evening :p :
I thought Germans weren't supposed to have a sense of humour?
You'd be surprised :p
This is such a nice feeling after yesterday's clobbering. :)
And to think that Malaga gave Dortmund a great fight.
I like this German team, I like their uniform ( like a hoard of attacking bees) and an exciting fan base in a wonderful stadium.
5 more minutes for the fifth :devil:
po qué?
Ha Ha Ha :D
Wow. If Barca had got 1away goal. It would have been symetry.
Great job by Dortmund.
or if Hummel hadn't given it away :(
So far Germany beats Spain 8-1 :eek:
Ronaldo: "I'll see you at the finals"
Messi: "your house or mine?"
FaceBook is fast.
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There was a report in Der Sport Bild about a month ago, which suggested that a decade ago, the DFB wanted to learn lessons from both the EPL and La Liga about how the game was played in both England and Spain and then develop a system of coaching techniques from that. Here was are a decade later, with a lot of players who have moved between leagues; taking what they learnt with them and I'm wondering if the theory is correct?Quote:
Originally Posted by pino
Does German football now combine the physicality of English football of a decade ago with the technical flair that Spanish football had? The German national team hasn't won a tournament since 1996 and so I guess something had to give.
I'm really glad BVB won this one but it looks like the end of this great team. Gotze is going to Bayern next season :( and it seems Lewandoski is going to leave too.
Well even when Germany had a crappy team that even lost to England 5-1 they still got to the World Cup final. So now they have great players they should be expecting great things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
The roots of today's team go back to the early naughts. After the utter clobbering we took delivery of at the 2000 Euro with a team full of geriatric players who had all the grace and finesse of a flock of hippo's, the DFB (German FA) decided it was time for a restart. First of all they got rid of arse-backwards coaches like Bertie Voigts and Erich Ribbeck, handing the duty over to the next generation, namely Rudi Völler. When they wanted to rebuild the Nationalelf, they realized that we don't have many emerging talents that can play their way out of a paperbag. The Bundesliga was dominated by foreign players resulting in travesties, like Cottbus fielding a starting team with not a single German on the pitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rollo
As a result massive efforts were undertaken to build a youth program. Every Bundesliga Club has to have a youth training center. In the process integration of immigrants was pushed as well, leading to the result that with Klose, Podolski, Kedhira, Özil, Boateng, Aogo, Owomoyela, Cacau quite a few foreign born players or children of foreign born parents were in the lineup of the national team in recent years.
Things started to pay off around 2008/2009 and today we have myriads of well-educated young players and teams have the luxury of fielding German players actually. Also due to the young training system, which is by now probably one of the best and most sophisticated in the world, players start to emerge to the top league earlier. Marc-André ter Stegen, goalie of Mönchengladbach has been their undisputed number one since age 19. Schalke's star midfielder Draxler had to get special excemption from school to be able to take part in late-night Europa League games, because he was only 17 at the time. With Thomas Müller, Toni Kroos, Mezut Özil, Ron Robert Zieler, Marco Reus, Mario Götze, Sven Bender, André Schürrle, İlkay Gündoğan, Patrick Hermann half the current squad is under 25 and a direct result of the massive investments into the youth departments all over Germanyland.
As part of this push for new talent, technical ability was pushed as well. In the 90's and early naughts, the style of the German team was often referred to as Rumpelfussball (klutz football), while the new generation is tactically well educated and can handle a ball without falling over it.