Euro 2012 Discussion

[f16harm]

Now that's the Italy we are use to.

 

[Champ]

prandelli fucking blows

 

[kyhadley]

Mata has now scored on his Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, and European Championship debuts all in one season.

 

[Prodigal Son]

Podolski... The player who moved to Germany when he was two and ancestors were mostly German?

Podolski... The player who speaks mainly Polish, married a Polish woman, and lives in Poland during the offseason, who wanted to play for Poland, until the coach at the time said "I'm not interested in a forward who had a couple good games in Germany."

Podolski is the biggest fuck up Polish soccer has ever made.

 

[Juggernaut]

Podolski... The player who speaks mainly Polish, married a Polish woman, and lives in Poland during the offseason, who wanted to play for Poland, until the coach at the time said "I'm not interested in a forward who had a couple good games in Germany."

Podolski is the biggest fuck up Polish soccer has ever made.

:yep:

It's impossible to watch a Germany game in my household without bring up Podolski and Klose. To be fair, Klose didn't want to play for Poland since he had a German passport and thought he'd get an invite to the German team.

 

[tbuc]

Half the German team isn't German... Ozil and Khedira are half Turkish, Mario Gomez is half Spanish, Jerome Boateng is half Ghanian. We've already mentioned Klose and Podolski. That's like 90% of their starting 11.

 

[citizenerased]

Half the German team isn't German... Ozil and Khedira are half Turkish, Mario Gomez is half Spanish, Jerome Boateng is half Ghanian. We've already mentioned Klose and Podolski. That's like 90% of their starting 11.

So?

Those first four you mentioned were also all born in Germany, where they have lived their entire lives while coming up through the youth ranks of their clubs and playing for the various German Youth National Teams.

You telling me they shouldn't be playing for the Germany? That's like saying Ashley Cole isn't English or Zidane isn't French.

Podolski and Klose (Whos Father is German) also lived the majority of their lives in Germany, and have been playing for German clubs since the ages of 6 and 9 respectively. Poland only showed interest in them when they became names, Germany was the ones footing the ball and developing them from when they first began kicking the ball around, they have every right to reap the benefits.

 

[Senser81]

Half the German team isn't German... Ozil and Khedira are half Turkish, Mario Gomez is half Spanish, Jerome Boateng is half Ghanian. We've already mentioned Klose and Podolski. That's like 90% of their starting 11.

Welcome to International Soccer!! I hope you enjoyed watching your first tournament!

 

[f16harm]

Half the German team isn't German... Ozil and Khedira are half Turkish, Mario Gomez is half Spanish, Jerome Boateng is half Ghanian. We've already mentioned Klose and Podolski. That's like 90% of their starting 11.

Really? I thought it was 54.5%

 

[Prodigal Son]

Whenever I have to watch the German team with my German friends, I just love saying "I love some of these strong German names, like Gomez, Ozil, and Podolski"

 

[seaplus]

Whenever I have to watch the German team with my German friends, I just love saying "I love some of these strong German names, like Gomez, Ozil, and Podolski"

they should respond with Bocanegra, Gomez, Onyewu, Torres, etc...

 

[BigHouseUSA]

Melting pot, bra

 

[citizenerased]

Whenever I have to watch the German team with my German friends, I just love saying "I love some of these strong German names, like Gomez, Ozil, and Podolski"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Chandler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Johnson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Williams_(footballer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Morales

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Boyd

Of all the people to do that with as an American Fan, you had to do it to Ze Germans?

 

[1ke]

UEFA has admitted manipulating supposedly "live" images to include previously filmed footage for the second time during the Euro 2012 football tournament, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

From the television footage, it looked like a spontaneous display of emotion from a German fan as Italy scored their second, winning goal against Germany in Thursday's match.

Yet the pictures of a woman crying shown immediately after Mario Balotelli's goal had been filmed before the match even began, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Saturday.

When Italy scored a second goal in the 36 minute of the game, millions of viewers across Germany were shown a picture of a German fan in the stadium who had apparently spontaneously been reduced to tears.

But as the fan herself told the paper, and UEFA later confirmed, she had really been overcome with emotion during the national anthem prior to kick-off.

This is the second time UEFA has been accused of having manipulated images transmitted to Germany during a live game in this tournament, and had already admitted slotting previously filmed pictures of German coach Joachim Löw into footage of the Germany vs Netherlands game on June 13th.

"We are surprised and irritated. The pictures are unacceptable," ARD team leader Jörg Schönenborn told the paper.

Whilst UEFA admitted having cut the pictures into the live footage, it denied all accusations of manipulation. They used the footage to "show the emotion and excitement of the German fans at the game," according to the article.

German broadcasters ARD and ZDF have complained to UEFA, demanding that viewers be alerted when previously filmed pictures are being shown during live transmissions.

 

[Fappin Raptor]

Germany wasn't the only country to see that.