Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Predictions From Some Experts (and not-so experts)
Tomorrow you'll get our predictions. Today, we hear from others, experts and otherwise:
EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Using the game - which apparently even measures for altitude -- Brazil wins it all, defeating Spain in the final. We have our doubts: The game also has England in the semis.
VIP Communications Customer Survey: 32.2% pick Brazil; 23.5% pick Spain; 12.3% pick England.
Rome Hartman, Executive Producer, BBC News America: Brazil to win.
Piers Edwards, BBC: Brazil over Argentina in the final. Also thinks the Dutch may do well.
For more, read here:
Grant Wahl, SI: Spain tops, Brazil 2nd, Netherlands 3rd in power rankings.
EA Sports 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Using the game - which apparently even measures for altitude -- Brazil wins it all, defeating Spain in the final. We have our doubts: The game also has England in the semis.
VIP Communications Customer Survey: 32.2% pick Brazil; 23.5% pick Spain; 12.3% pick England.
Rome Hartman, Executive Producer, BBC News America: Brazil to win.
Piers Edwards, BBC: Brazil over Argentina in the final. Also thinks the Dutch may do well.
For more, read here:
Grant Wahl, SI: Spain tops, Brazil 2nd, Netherlands 3rd in power rankings.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Does Germany's Eurovision Victory Tell Us Anything About the World Cup? Probably
Occasionally, victories in international competitions come all at once. One need only look back to 2008 to see Spain's Euro triumph coincide with Spanish domination of tennis and cycling the same year, not to mention Penelope Cruz's Oscar.
Although not quite the same thing, Germany - shockingly - won the annual Eurovision Song Competition on Saturday, courtesy of Hamburg's 19-year-old Lena Meyer-Landrut. For those unfamiliar with the competition, you're missing out: essentially an infinitely more absurd American Idol that involves all of Europe, the competition is an all-night affair where countries perform musical routines and then a winner is decided by phone-in vote (voters are not allowed to vote for their own country).
How big is it on the continent? Absolutely huge.
To read more, go here.
Although not quite the same thing, Germany - shockingly - won the annual Eurovision Song Competition on Saturday, courtesy of Hamburg's 19-year-old Lena Meyer-Landrut. For those unfamiliar with the competition, you're missing out: essentially an infinitely more absurd American Idol that involves all of Europe, the competition is an all-night affair where countries perform musical routines and then a winner is decided by phone-in vote (voters are not allowed to vote for their own country).
How big is it on the continent? Absolutely huge.
To read more, go here.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Surprise Selections (and other news) from Group D, the Group of Death -- Germany, Ghana, Serbia, and Australia
This may be the toughest group to call in South Africa because it is, in fact, the toughest: All four of these teams would qualify from most of the other groups. But that's why they call it the group of death.
So, it's on to recent developments with the teams, in an order of finish that could well be reversed:
GERMANY
There's a good argument that the most successful team in the history of the World Cup hasn't been Brazil but Germany. Winners three times, this team has never failed to get to the quarterfinals over the last seven tourneys and has finished third and second respectively at the last two.
But if there's ever going to be a tournament where the Germans stumble, it's turning out that this could be the one. The group is difficult and even if the Germans do emerge winning the group, they could face both Argentina and Spain on the road to another possible final. Captain and midfielder Michael Ballack was injured earlier this month at Chelsea and will miss the proceedings. The Germans are down to their third-string keeper (who is still admittedly miles better than anything England has to offer), after the first-string choice, Robert Enke, tragically committed suicide last autumn and the second-string choice, Rene Adler, got injured in the spring.
Even Bayern Munich's success at getting to the Champions League final will probably hurt this team. As we've pointed out before, European club success in a country actually hurts the national team because it makes it likelier that many of its players will be bushed by the time they get to South Africa.
For more, go here:
So, it's on to recent developments with the teams, in an order of finish that could well be reversed:
GERMANY
There's a good argument that the most successful team in the history of the World Cup hasn't been Brazil but Germany. Winners three times, this team has never failed to get to the quarterfinals over the last seven tourneys and has finished third and second respectively at the last two.
But if there's ever going to be a tournament where the Germans stumble, it's turning out that this could be the one. The group is difficult and even if the Germans do emerge winning the group, they could face both Argentina and Spain on the road to another possible final. Captain and midfielder Michael Ballack was injured earlier this month at Chelsea and will miss the proceedings. The Germans are down to their third-string keeper (who is still admittedly miles better than anything England has to offer), after the first-string choice, Robert Enke, tragically committed suicide last autumn and the second-string choice, Rene Adler, got injured in the spring.
Even Bayern Munich's success at getting to the Champions League final will probably hurt this team. As we've pointed out before, European club success in a country actually hurts the national team because it makes it likelier that many of its players will be bushed by the time they get to South Africa.
For more, go here:
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