The 2014 Football World Cup

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If someone had told me before the tournament that Germany would win the world cup I would have admitted him to a lunatic asylum. With all the injured players that could not join the team I thought that the last 16 would be the end of the tournament for Germany.
I still cannot believe it. In the the last 24 years I doubted if I would ever see a night like this again in my lifetime.
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Germany were the most consistent team in the tournament. The victory over Brazil was a fluke and was mainly down to Brazil falling apart, but Germany were clinical enough to take advantage where many other teams would have failed.

I didn't realise until tonight that this was the first victory since re-unification. I like that because it puts even more of the past firmly in the past.

Enjoy your evening :wink:
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DRT wrote: Enjoy your evening :wink:
Thank you Derek. I very much appreciate your kind words. You're a real gentleman. *bows*
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In other news, the German post office will issue a commemorative stamp to mark this event:
https://twitter.com/BMF_Bund/status/488 ... 84/photo/1
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AW77 wrote:In other news, the German post office will issue a commemorative stamp to mark this event:
https://twitter.com/BMF_Bund/status/488 ... 84/photo/1
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Whose feet are those? One will be pleased, one not.
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jdaw1 wrote:
AW77 wrote:In other news, the German post office will issue a commemorative stamp to mark this event:
https://twitter.com/BMF_Bund/status/488 ... 84/photo/1
Whose feet are those? One will be pleased, one not.
Those are the feet of the unknown footballer. :) As the team was the star in our case, I find it quite fitting that they didn't single out one player for special praise. I think Argentina would have put a picture of Messi on it's stamp.
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AW77 wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:
AW77 wrote:In other news, the German post office will issue a commemorative stamp to mark this event:
https://twitter.com/BMF_Bund/status/488 ... 84/photo/1
Whose feet are those? One will be pleased, one not.
Those are the feet of the unknown footballer. :) As the team was the star in our case, I find it quite fitting that they didn't single out one player for special praise. I think Argentina would have put a picture of Messi on it's stamp.
A massive picture of Joachim Löw embracing Messi should be put up in front of the Reichstag. Inspiring.
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The BBC has picked up the story of the stamp as well:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28302531
(But I think that TPF had it first.)
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Another title this year:
The U19 team won the 2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship:
http://www.uefa.com/under19/season=2014 ... 19+success
So hopefully a new generation of players will emerge to play in the 2016 European Championship or the 2018 World Cup.
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